Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its people
If the mandate of DOGE was to “[modernise] federal technology and software to maximise governmental efficiency and productivity”, in the words of the executive order that launched the initiative on 20 January 2025, the reality was a strengthening of the state’s surveillance capacities.
Over time, Musk had become convinced that the real bugs in the code were people, especially the non-white illegal immigrants whom he saw as pawns in a liberal scheme to corrupt democracy and beneficiaries of what he called “suicidal empathy”. He understood empathy itself in coding terms. It was an “exploit” or a software vulnerability against which the system architecture needed to be hardened.
The mass immigration is to depress salaries. In the 70s bout of inflation countries all over the world did wage caps, including the US in the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970, which entrenched inflated asset values and debased salaries.
They also attempted to squash unions, blaming them for the inflation caused by currency debasement. Don’t let left leaning people say that immigrants don’t affect wages, they obviously do.