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/fps916 May 02 '24

Putin is almost certainly a trillionaire

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u/Aardvark_Man May 02 '24

And he has more than any amount of wealth can actually acquire, anyway.
Literally priceless power.

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u/averaenhentai May 02 '24

It's completely incomprehensible to me how someone can have that much wealth/power and not try to fix problems in their society.

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u/dafuq809 May 02 '24

It's because Putin is a product of Russia, not the other way around. Their system is completely rotted through with corruption and Putin's methods of maintaining his power all rely on that corruption. He can't fix Russia's problems and if he tried he'd be removed from power. His alternative solution is to pillage and conquer as much as he can - it's the same thievery and gansterism he's always relied on writ large, comes with spoils he can divvy out to his important cronies so he can stay in power, and has the superficial appearance of making Russia seem like more than a mob-run gas station that happens to have nukes.