I hate the guy but wanted to fact check this to keep my claims in check. It is true. Here'a a chatgpt that points to several confirming major news websites.
This led me to something even more chilling. He appears to be critiquing people's net worth vis a vis their salaries. It may just be more bullsh but if so, it's an unacceptable level of invasion of privacy. And further confirmation that he is not fit to do this kind of work:
"We do find it sort of rather odd that there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have, ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position,” Musk claimed"
The implication here, that someone could be examining our wealth and deciding if we deserved it or not, is horrifying. It rcalls some of the other dark aspects of totalitarian governments.
It's totalitarian if the government does it. Private citizens are allowed (Free Speech) to make private judgments of this sort, even if their reasoning / conclusions are ludicrous or unsavory.
Indeed. And there are formal procedures to, and both legal and administrative oversight over, those investigations.
It's not appropriate for the Chief Executive (far less an unappointed private citizen, in charge of an ad hoc advisory body) to have arbitrary un-auditable access to every citizen's financial records.
I note that the same dude also said in his White House interview not to believe him because he'll often be wrong.