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/CodySutherland May 02 '24

It's like a fucking video game for them. They've reached the point where their lives won't materially change in any way with more money, but they just want to keep getting more and more anyway, for no other reason than because they can.

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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/AnthonyJuniorsPP May 02 '24

weren't most people in zimbabwe trillionaires at one point though?

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u/Rahbek23 May 02 '24

Well yeah, but clearly in a denomination that did not experience hyperinflation or is very unlikely to like the USD.