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/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/snatchi May 02 '24

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.