If he is able to unilaterally and arbitrarily rewrite all the code for the treasury, and our nuclear weapons, should we be worried about some kind of active coup, to install himself as emperor?
It's possible that I'm just being paranoid, it's likely just immense greed from Musk, but I have no fucking clue why anyone feels like Elon needs access to our nuclear weapons.
The system moves on the order of a ten billion dollars a day. If that's interrupted, who knows how bad the disruption to cash flow will send debt servicing into a spiral.
What if they fuck up the Fed intraday loan system altogether? That could cause a cascade of bankruptcies that can take down all of our banks and the entire world's financial systems to boot (thank you, too big to fail).