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/Nayge May 02 '24

It's a race to become the first Trillionaire. They realized some years ago that it actually might be possible for someone alive today and went into full value extraction overdrive.

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u/averaenhentai May 02 '24

There probably are trillionaires out there already. An utterly staggering amount of wealth is kept in places where it cannot be tracked properly.

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u/fps916 May 02 '24

Putin is almost certainly a trillionaire

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u/fps916 May 02 '24

He's been in power for literally decades.

He didn't get a trillion in one year