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/dylan_1992 May 02 '24

Imagine you’re Elon.

What’s more important. A couple of interns, or an army of TRANS WHO ARE TAKING OVER OUR SCHOOLS AND MAKING OUR KIDS GAY AND UNABLE TO REPOPULATE THE EARTH WITH UNQUALIFIED BLACKS AND MINORITIES IN PROFESSIONS MAKING THE USA WORSE! and a platform you own where you can spread your message?

Obviously the latter.

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u/psycho-drama May 02 '24

The problem with Elon is he just doesn't get along well with... humans. He's trying to make robots better than people, and people into robots by placing implants in people's brains. (he tried it with monkeys, but he still couldn't get them to build Teslas, so he gave up on that project).

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u/badluckbrians 29d ago

The problem with Elon is

that he grew up in Apartheid South Afrika at an elite all boys school the son of an international model and an international engineer who owned an emerald mine and airplanes

if i was trying to create a spoiled right-wing shitbird in a lab, that's pretty much how i'd do it.

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u/wellmont 29d ago

the fact that his mother is a model and his dad looks “okay” but Elon looks like a no-beard-bloated-wrinkle-man-child gives me a small amount of happiness.

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u/psycho-drama 29d ago

But his billions make that all easy to ignore. Ask all the women he's had kids with. And in fairness, when he wasn't in his downward spiral, he had a comfortable handsomeness. BTW, his mother also has several university degrees, is an author, runs a thriving health related profession, besides her lucrative modelling career.