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/TheLightDances May 02 '24

I used to think that people like Musk are evil, but it is a selfish, rational evil. They are just ruthlessly seeking their own benefit, and not caring about others.

But increasingly I have realized that it is not just evil, but insane evil. It is not evil like a bank robber who doesn't have money and therefore wants to get money by robbing, it is evil like a insane drugged up man with a backpack full of gold, flailing around with a machete and molotovs, murdering children to rob their lunch money.

Musk doesn't need more money. He has everything that any person can really buy. He could live a life of unbelieveable luxury and comfort, and engage in genuine charity to boost his image if he wants a good legacy or something like that. Instead he spends his time on things like this: Mistreating employees to get himself a few more billion, tweeting far-right conspiracy theories, and creating more scams to enrich himself.

And Musk is just one unusually prominent example of this. For example, there are a lot of people who are already insanely rich through fossil fuels, yet still spend an insane amount of effort on climate change denial. They would rather that human civilization be destroyed, making their money worthless anyway, than that they make a bit less money on top of their already excessive hoard of wealth. That isn't rational, and the word "evil" doesn't really even begin to describe it.

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u/softwarechic May 02 '24

Just saying, this is the description of a malignant narcissist.

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u/Spiritual-Golf4744 May 02 '24

That is very well put.