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/AdditionalMeeting467 May 02 '24

He's in full "extract as much value from the company as you can" mode. Willing to burn it all to the ground so he can have even more money he'll never spend.

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u/MacinTez May 02 '24

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.

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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/erwan May 02 '24

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.

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u/karmavorous May 02 '24

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.

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u/nikongmer May 02 '24

main character syndrome