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  • I used to teach ESL to some banking IT people, COBOL programmers whose skills were still in demand half a century after COBOL came out. Because the banking systems written half century ago still work, and when it comes to handling other people’s money, breakages, mistakes and downtime are absolutely not an option.

    If Musk really wanted to run government like a business, he’d do like the banks and leave a working system damn well alone.

    Of course, he wants to run government like one of his businesses, into the ground like Twitter or soon Tesla.


    PS The only bank they knew of implementing newer tech for handling the money was a brand new one with no existing systems the new tech might break.