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      He put up Tesla stock to finance Xitter, so I’m guessing these effing ridiculous demands for salary and bonus are his attempt to backtrack out of that debt. He must be hurting behind the scenes. OhNoAnyway.jpg …

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      Even if he calls a factory-wide meeting, he’s not going to get as many people laughing at his “humor” and telling him what a genius he is compared to Twitter.

      And that’s all he really cares about.

      So yeah, he’s very motivated to seek out attention from sycophants.

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    A motivated Elon produced the Cubertruck and replaced the Autonomous Driving ladar sensors with low resolution cameras. A motivated Elon turned Twitter into Xitter. I’m just saying that maybe you want to avoid a motivated Elon.

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      A motivated-Elon is why sales of Teslas are declining while other EV sales are up by double digits.

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    Are you telling me that Elon Musk might be, perhaps, quiet quitting? The horror.

    Seriously, fuck that guy.

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    Award for Person You Could Easily Sell a Bridge To goes to chairperson Robyn Denholm.

    He seems motivated enough with Twitter and he makes negative money there. Considering the poster for he has created at Tesla, maybe they should not be motivating him.

    I do love that the pay package was blocked by a metal head who owned like five shares.

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    Good thing Tesla has all that money rolling in from its wildly-successful Cybertruck debut.

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      It’s funny, the world was excited for basically a teched out Toyota Tundra with shitloads of battery. The designers were ready to build that, and they could have kept literally everything else the same (steer by wire, steel skin, glass, bed cover, etc) and everyone would have been happy.

      Even looking weird people were excited for it.

      But then they deleted half the range and doubled the price and ::pikachu face:: everyone hates it.

      Sure, musk was the reason it looks weird, but I’d be willing to bet he’s 100% the reason for those other things too, because they likely had to cut weight and size to make it’s weird look physical possible.

      (I’d still buy it if it had 500+ range)

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        Or maybe the range sucks because some dipshit insisted it use heavy fucking stainless steel instead of lightweight aluminum or because some dipshit wanted it being “bulletproof” as a selling point.

        Sounds like some dipshit shouldn’t be making important decisions.

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          They could replace the skin with foam board, but all that weight savings would just let them reduce the battery to save more on the manufacturing costs.

          FYI, it only weighs about 400lbs more than the F150 Lightning, so the skin probably doesn’t add much weight over a traditional truck skin. The four wheel steering tech and glass roof probably add more.

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        they could have kept literally everything else the same

        The literal sense of what you’re saying is implied since it’s not a figure of speech or hyperbole.

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      Honestly I wish he would ‘leave’ SpaceX too.

      I caught his livestream for the latest Starship launch, and he literally introduced the event with a 10-minute speech on “saving your life” by buying crypto, and how they would match your crypto if you used his link or something. WTF was all that, and WTF did that have to do with SpaceX.

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        Pump&Dump?
        Musk bought into some shitcoin that crashed before he made profit, so even if he gives half away, the slight boost on price will let him dump the rest for less losses… Maybe?

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      The problem is that Tesla is essentially just a pump and dump masquerading as a car company. Their market cap is simply absurd and based on nothing other than Musk’s personality cult. If Musk leaves the company gor whatever reason, the stock will crash and the company will go bankrupt. They have an obscene amount of debt that is backed by Tesla stock, so once thier stock falls below a certain price, all thos loans will demand their loneu back

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    For a billion dollars I have a guaranteed plan to reduce operating expenses by 45 billion. Board of telsa feel free to hit up my DMs

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          The only problem is that with your merger $200,000 job you’d have to work for 5,000 years at that wage without spending a single penny before you’d reach even one billion dollars. To be e billionaire now would make your start date 3000 BC which would be around the time the Sumeruan writing system was first used.

          • Now, it gets worse. If you want to make Elons 46 billion dollar package you’d have to start working your full time $200,000 job 230,000 years ago. This would be the prehistoric stone age so finding a $200,000 a year job would be difficult. Even more difficult would be staying alive while working full time for 230,000 years while you earn the amount Elon wants handed to him.

          • I think the reason people think having a billion dollars is OK is because they can’t do math and don’t understand the ludicrously in that amount of money.

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            If I were Grand Poobah, I’d throw the rich a bone and say any wealth over $10 million is taxed at 99%.

            No one needs $10 million, but let them have their precious Lamborghinis.

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      I am guessing you could hire several hundred CEOs collectively for that price. And they would not be splitting their time between five companies. Robyn clearly had their nose so far up Musk’s ass that it is difficult to figure out where one ends and the other begins.

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    Easy, tell him then the shares they want to give him cannot be sold immediately then, like 5 years of holding. But also include a section that says his current holdings must then also be tied to the new shares holding period, since he said he was first in and will be last out, should not be a problem and will be a great motivator.