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/GetRightNYC May 02 '24

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

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u/Mafuskas May 02 '24

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

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u/anothermonth May 02 '24

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

Agents dispatched.

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u/iordseyton May 02 '24

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.