Not defending Elon, but he did already become a naturalized US citizen in 2002.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/dec/05/threads-posts/elon-musk-has-been-a-us-citizen-since-2002/

Rollerball (1975) has similar corporate city themes

In the year 9595 I’m kinda wonderin’ if man is gonna be alive

I thought I just had a stroke. But it is not the first thing that I hear people do when I see a picture like that in a movie and it makes my brain go crazy because of that picture and it is the most accurate representation of what happened in my life that makes me think that it is a real person that has been in the past.

The vendor will absolutely take that custom code and use it to extract maximum profit from a different customer. I’ve experienced it from both sides of the transaction. Open source at least allows the functionality to be “developed” only once.

It doesn’t even have to be offshore accounts. Just a fat long-term maintenance contract would be enough to hide a lot of corrupt costs.