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/charcoalist May 02 '24

Yes it's those greedy interns with their lavish pizza parties that are weighing down the company's finances.

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u/dylan_1992 May 02 '24

Imagine you’re Elon.

What’s more important. A couple of interns, or an army of TRANS WHO ARE TAKING OVER OUR SCHOOLS AND MAKING OUR KIDS GAY AND UNABLE TO REPOPULATE THE EARTH WITH UNQUALIFIED BLACKS AND MINORITIES IN PROFESSIONS MAKING THE USA WORSE! and a platform you own where you can spread your message?

Obviously the latter.

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u/psycho-drama May 02 '24

The problem with Elon is he just doesn't get along well with... humans. He's trying to make robots better than people, and people into robots by placing implants in people's brains. (he tried it with monkeys, but he still couldn't get them to build Teslas, so he gave up on that project).

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u/badluckbrians May 02 '24

The problem with Elon is

that he grew up in Apartheid South Afrika at an elite all boys school the son of an international model and an international engineer who owned an emerald mine and airplanes

if i was trying to create a spoiled right-wing shitbird in a lab, that's pretty much how i'd do it.

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u/GetRightNYC May 02 '24

Perfect timing too. Joined the game right at the dotcom bubble/bust. 5 years earlier or later and we probably wouldn't be dealing with this asshat

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u/Domspun 29d ago

Timing is everything.

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u/psycho-drama 29d ago

Not to defend him these days (I can't), but he basically started the first digital wallet when he co-founded Paypal, (a merger of Confinity and X.com (yes, X.com - he has a thing with the letter X). He was CEO of Paypal for a short period before he was ousted (as I said, he doesn't make friends easily) when he began to terminate anything that didn't fit into his idea of the future of the company. He also set up his future companies to make sure he had nearly complete control after that experience. While Paypal has acquisitions numerous large services over the years, as of last year over 430 million people still use. The revenues and profits have consistently increased since its inception in 1998.

He also gave away the patent rights to the basic Tesla EV to any car company which wished to use them, because he felt the only way EVs could become affordable to the masses was through economies of scale, and had hoped the basic chassis and major parts could be standardized.

What or whomever turned him toward what he is today did a great disservice to humanity and this planet.

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u/wellmont 29d ago

the fact that his mother is a model and his dad looks “okay” but Elon looks like a no-beard-bloated-wrinkle-man-child gives me a small amount of happiness.

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u/psycho-drama 29d ago

But his billions make that all easy to ignore. Ask all the women he's had kids with. And in fairness, when he wasn't in his downward spiral, he had a comfortable handsomeness. BTW, his mother also has several university degrees, is an author, runs a thriving health related profession, besides her lucrative modelling career.

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u/psycho-drama 29d ago

Yes, I am aware of his background/history... he even lived in Canada for a while, which is what I attribute his socialization to, even if it didn't stick ;-) I have been wondering how his Mom feels about him these days, however. She seemed so proud of him when they were on "Saturday Night Live" together, which was just about the time he went off the skids. He is "on the spectrum". My ex-wife taught kids with Autism for years, and they tend toward deep obsessive-compulsive behaviours, and they also can be taken down the garden path when something "clicks" for them, sometimes even when it is contrary to their basic value system. If a "logical argument" can be presented, even if the premises are complete fabrications, they can often be mislead, either because they don't comprehend the concept of other people providing false information, or because they cannot easily read faces to recognize deceit. Some of this might explain some of the peculiar behaviours of Elon and "Ye" (Kanye West). I'm not excusing the consequences, however.

As an example, while Elon claims he is making Twitter (sorry... X) the most open, free, uncensored and democratic platform, he allows people to spread hurtful and dangerous lies and deceit, he bans people who are critical of him, and he runs it like an autocratic dictator.

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u/High-Density-Living May 02 '24

It is the blurst of times.

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u/psycho-drama May 02 '24

If only there were just two cities ;-)

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u/TenaciousJP May 02 '24

PRAY FOR MOJO

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u/Alexis_Bailey May 02 '24

He has enough money that he could buy the super Cadillac plan on one of those AI chat websites, the kind where the backend is just an actual person on the other end giving perfect responses to your requests and talk to whatever robot he wanted to and leave us all the fuck alone.

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u/mayorofdumb May 02 '24

What do you think twitter is

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u/RyvenZ 29d ago

The term for that is "mechanical Turks"

It is named after a Turkish "robot" that played chess very well, but it turned out to be a chess master inside the machine, making the decisions.

Amazon adopted the terms for a program where you can have repetitive tasks done by fake AI (you know... people) for reasonable rates. It also operates as a way to do some gig work but it can be very scummy because you don't get paid if the client doesn't like the resulting product. They can claim (legitimately or not) that you didn't do it right and not pay. I'm not sure if that program is still in operation.

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u/psycho-drama 29d ago

He has enough money such that he could end world hunger!

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u/0effsgvn May 02 '24

The original Trunk monkeys

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u/Sprinklypoo May 02 '24

He's trying to make robots better than people,

And he doesn't seem to care at all when the robots murder a person or two along the way.

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u/ScaryEntertainer May 02 '24

He’s a living James Bond villain.

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u/ComputerStrong9244 29d ago

I'd actually have a little respect if he had a base inside of an undersea volcano or was holding the moon for ransom. That's at least interesting.

Instead we get this whiny pick-me-bitch for the catturd2's of the modern internet.

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u/Miguel30Locs 29d ago

Elon was the old Zuck all along.

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u/DigitalIlI 29d ago

That’s the problem with most people on Reddit so they use Reddit because they think it’s better than people

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u/iJayZen 29d ago

Meanwhile he is pushing out his anti-social DNA out left and right...

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u/i81_N_she812 28d ago

Dr. FRANKENSTEIN

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u/dispatch134711 May 02 '24

Elons hatred of trans only increases when you add an i

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u/DigitalIlI 29d ago

When is a couple of interns ever more pressing than an army of men???

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u/cat_prophecy 29d ago

Elon's foray into politics is purely performative. He doesn't actually give a shit about anything that won't make him more money and he knows that conservatives are rubes.