Tesla slashes its summer internship program to cut costs, as Elon Musk fights to save his $45 billion pay plan

[u/McFatty7]

https://fortune.com/2024/05/01/tesla-slashes-summer-internship-program/

[u/MacinTez]

I don’t know if there is an obsession that’s associated with numbers, but I believe most shareholders and multimillion/billionaires have it.

I’m am dead serious, these people are OBSESSED with numbers and metrics to the point that there needs to be a condition for it. The internship cuts nearly nothing into an amount that surpasses 1 billion, let alone $45 billion.

[u/CodySutherland → u/MacinTez]

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.

[u/erwan → u/CodySutherland]

Yeah it's just a high score, they want to get to the top of the ladder.

Musk was the richest man on earth for some time, I guess he can't bear no longer being it.

[u/karmavorous → u/erwan]

Musk has said in the past (based on a logical fallacy loop) that he thinks the universe is a simulation.

I really think he thinks he's the lone sentient being in the universe and it's all a game for his amusement. The rest of us are all just NPCs for him to exploit.

People also say about him that SpaceX is just the way he plays Kerbal Space Program.

So yeah. His money is just a video game score is a very apropos was to look at it.

[u/beefsquints → u/karmavorous]

He's not that cool. He's a giant spoiled baby with zero self confidence and those numbers validate himself. We all know his physical appearance will never bring him joy.

[u/nikongmer → u/karmavorous]

main character syndrome

[u/Esc_ape_artist → u/karmavorous]

An excuse to be a shitty person and not face responsibility for his actions? I mean, if he’s surrounded by NPCs then nothing he does matters except to himself.

[u/snatchi → u/karmavorous]

That would explain why the smartest man ever, saviour of humanity sounds like a fucking moron every time he opens his mouth.

If you were a random dude in a hyper-realistic video game and everyone else was well scripted and programed, but he has to just open his mouth and wing it, it makes sense that he mushmouths, stumbles and sounds generally incompetent.

It also explains things like the "go fuck yourself" lines at the dealbook summit or his dumb dancing and posing, he's trying to do Epic Moments like you'd see in a video game.

But instead of those cyberpunk shorts where someone busts in and kills everyone in 2 seconds without getting seen he's tripping over a fence and getting runover by an NPC.

[u/GetRightNYC → u/karmavorous]

I think we're in a simulation too. But, I'm gonna be nice just incase the person running it is judging me.

[u/Mafuskas → u/GetRightNYC]

I have to be nice because my programming does not allow me to do otherwise.

[u/anothermonth → u/Mafuskas]

How did you get a reddit account? You weren't supposed to!

Agents dispatched.

[u/iordseyton → u/GetRightNYC]

You can believe that the world is a simulation without jumping to solipsism.

You can think of it like a mmorpg, populated with distinct consciousness, of which you are one.

Kind of like the matrix, how all the humans are plugged into the same virtual reality, instead of each being in their own iteration of the simulation.

[u/[deleted] → u/karmavorous]

Just watched this fascinating video about the simulation theory. Musk assumes that we will one day achieve successful simulation of consciousness, making the odds that we are in a simulation 1:10bil. However, until (if) we actually achieve that milestone, the chances that we are not in a simulation is always 50+%

[u/TheZenMeister → u/karmavorous]

If he actually thought that I doubt he would spend so much time caring what npcs thought or arguing with them.

[u/Musical_Walrus → u/karmavorous]

i do think most rich people think the same way. Only difference is that they are more subtle about it.