{"id":6848,"date":"2026-08-26T15:09:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=6848"},"modified":"2026-08-26T15:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:09:48","slug":"ex-trump-officials-tremendously-stupid-social-security-claim-draws-immediate-rebuke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=6848","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Trump official&#8217;s &#8216;tremendously stupid&#8217; social-security claim draws immediate rebuke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A top executive at one of the world\u2019s biggest artificial intelligence companies drew backlash on Tuesday for describing Social Security as \u201ca kind of accounting fraud\u201d that will have to be dismantled.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=6846\">Dolly Parton\u2019s death spurs immediate self-praise from Trump: \u2018She really liked me\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dean Ball, head of strategic futures at OpenAI who previously worked in President Donald Trump\u2019s White House, wrote in a social media post that while Social Security may have once been a \u201creasonable affordance\u201d to people who \u201cwere dealing with an economic depression and a world war,\u201d it was nonetheless \u201caccounting fraud, whose debt is coming due and is coming due fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ball concluded his post by informing younger generations of Americans that \u201cunwinding the great fraud&#8230; is your job, whether you wish it to be or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ball\u2019s attack on Social Security drew a swift rebuke from David Segal, a former Democratic Rhode Island State Representative and founder of Demand Progress, who observed that it undercut other AI executives\u2019 claims that their technology would create an era of unprecedented abundance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI is gonna shoot productivity to the moon,\u201d wrote Segal, \u201coh and also society can\u2019t afford to pay old people $2,000 per month anymore starting today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Author Lincoln Michel similarly spotted the contradiction between AI industry vows that the technology \u201cis going to give us [universal basic income] and we\u2019ll never work again\u201d and Ball\u2019s declaration that \u201cour main mission is to destroy Social Security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Henry Burke, senior researcher at the Revolving Door Project, argued that Ball\u2019s analysis of Social Security revealed the true priorities of Big Tech elites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s notable that the Abundance guy turned OpenAI hack considers Social Security to be a \u2018fraud\u2019 that must be remedied,\u201d wrote Burke, \u201cand not the reckless tax breaks successive Republican presidents have given away to the wealthy which have exploded the national debt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Putting aside policy arguments, many critics pointed out that Ball\u2019s call to dismantle Social Security was a major political loser.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=6844\">\u2018This is malpractice!\u2019 MAGA host panics at Trump \u2018already giving up on November\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Polling analyst Lakshya Jain, citing survey data showing vast and bipartisan support for Social Security, informed Ball that his rhetoric about the program is optimal for \u201canyone who wants to unite the whole of America (against them).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Josh Orton, president of We Demand Justice, marveled at the politically tone deaf messaging coming from an executive at a company whose own CEO has said that \u201cmy job is to help people destroy jobs\u201d with AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese AI guys are not just condescending elitists,\u201d wrote Orton, \u201cthey\u2019re tremendously stupid about politics. 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