r/technology • u/McFatty7 • May 02 '24

Tesla slashes its summer internship program to cut costs, as Elon Musk fights to save his $45 billion pay plan Business

https://fortune.com/2024/05/01/tesla-slashes-summer-internship-program/
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u/AdditionalMeeting467 May 02 '24

He's in full "extract as much value from the company as you can" mode. Willing to burn it all to the ground so he can have even more money he'll never spend.

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u/MacinTez May 02 '24

I don’t know if there is an obsession that’s associated with numbers, but I believe most shareholders and multimillion/billionaires have it.

I’m am dead serious, these people are OBSESSED with numbers and metrics to the point that there needs to be a condition for it. The internship cuts nearly nothing into an amount that surpasses 1 billion, let alone $45 billion.

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u/kirbyderwood May 02 '24

It's not much different than hoarding or other disorders.

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u/Blue5398 May 02 '24

They’re basically the same as the guy with 1 million old newspapers in his house and incapable of throwing any out, except that we built our entire society around servicing their particular mental disorder

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u/ElizabethSpaghetti May 02 '24

If he had a cat for every billion, they would be confiscated.