Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDwarkesh Patel: belief
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“Maybe, but we found that over seven years, the Social Security fraud they estimated was like $70 billion over seven years, so like $10 billion a year.”
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- Dwarkesh Patel
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- 5 Feb 2026
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…Why is it so low? Maybe, but we found that over seven years, the Social Security fraud they estimated was like $70 billion over seven years, so like $10 billion a year. So I’d be curious to see what the other $490 billion is. Federal government expenditures are $7.5 trillion a year. How competent do you think the government is?…
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