Elon on Database

"Fundamental weakness in the government – various government databases don't talk to each other; they talk to each other poorly; so the system gets exploited by taking advantage of poor communications between the various databases." - Elon Musk on the Joe Rogan podcast.

Governments are massive requiring tons of systems.

Building those systems is hard.
Making them talk to each other?
Even harder.
It takes intent, interoperability, and consistent data management.

Inefficiencies arise when systems don’t align.
When there’s no traceability.
When databases don’t sync in real time.

Companies face similar issues too.
But they often brute-force their way out with enough engineers, compute, and dashboards.

In governments, that option is not as readily available.

The result?

Inaccurate numbers.
Poor targeting.
Leaks.
Exploits.