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A Boring Dystopia
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You're not wrong (in that they'd survive), it's that it does nothing. I'd be surprised if every penny Musk has can run the American government for a day. Which essentially means you just don't don't like their wealth level, which is fine, just say that instead of pretending otherwise.
Well, if you take the current US "budget" as $4T per year, it's a bit over $10B per day. So yeah it runs for more than a day.
Of course, this should be treated the same way as if you were to lose your job: you probably cut your expenses so as not to spend all your money in the first 2 weeks. Maybe the US would finally stop paying for tanks the army doesn't want?
More like stop paying for the maintanence of shitty half a century old equipment that the military doesn't use anymore that was outdated as soon as it was introduced (cough cough A-10 cough)
The military is like "please don't make us keep this it costs us so much to keep" and congress is just like "BUT BRRRRRRT"
True fact. That said, where I live A10s fly out of Grissom AFB still all the time.