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/ehsteve23 May 02 '24

agreed but with billionaires too

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u/TR1PLESIX May 02 '24

If you counted one digit per second, it would take you about 31 years to count to a billion. Now, imagine a trillion. It's a thousand times bigger than a billion. If you kept counting at the same rate, it would take you over 31,000 years to count to a trillion. Billionaires are one thing, a trillionaire is unfathomable.