Elon Musk is the richest person in the world with a reported net worth of $359.4 billion[1]. Why does he want to steal our tax dollars? What indication is there that further self-enrichment is his goal?
But sure, money isn't everything, maybe he's going to destroy some bureaucrats who annoyed him, or who he imagines annoyed him, or who symbolically represent some annoying idea. It doesn't really matter why, American voters apparently weren't even capable of imagining why it might be a bad idea - which isn't great, but the American system of government is especially ill-suited to solving this sort of problem which compounds that.
Elon sees the rest of us as stepping stones to his long-term goals.
There are tons of non-obvious concerns: Starlink is in the news with the special FAA contract (part of why they want control of the GSA is that Starlink isn’t on the general Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract, making it harder for agencies to buy) but it even includes things like whether the FTC regulates or other parts of the government subsidize Bitcoin since a big chunk of Tesla’s reported profits come from unrealized Bitcoin gains.
Also, if what you say is true then he surely won’t suggest that the US federal departments use X AI, right? Riiiiight????
[1] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/02/27/elon-mu...