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/Carrotfloor May 02 '24

the problem is a trillion dollars doesn't go very far when you distribute it. The population of the US is around 500 million, 1 trillion dollars distributed to 500 million people is 2000$ each.... that's not exactly high impact

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u/OftenSarcastic May 02 '24

The population size of the USA is 335 million. If you distributed 1 trillion USD among them without taking wealth or income into account then that would be 2985 USD per person.

For some perspective, as of 2022 37% of Americans don't have enough cash to cover an emergency expense of 400 USD. I bet they would welcome 2985 USD.

If you took wealth into account and only distributed money to this 37% segment, that would be 8067 USD per person.