• tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 hour ago

    threats from Musk to step down if the deal is rejected

    A threat is a good start, but is it a promise?

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    15 hours ago

    Tesla has sold 7 million and something cars in total according to google. If each of those was 100k, that would still be less than a trillion in total. How could one guy get paid more than the whole company ever made?

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      13 hours ago

      This is supposed to be paid out over time based on future performance milestones. Also based on projected increased value of shares as a result.

      Still insanely, insanely high though.

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      15 hours ago

      In the market these days, it’s not what you’re making now but the future potential of what you might make in the future. And Musk is an expert in dreaming big and make other people believe it.

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        14 hours ago

        Ya most of his shit is stupid though. The cyber truck, terra forming mars with nukes, the hyperlopp, etc. The Tesla dream was there before him. I just don’t get it…

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          Because it’s nonsense. We’re a decade past the promised rollout of full self driving, the hyperloop is a failure, the cybertruck is a flop, China makes EVs significantly better and cheaper than Tesla. The batteries they’re selling are looking more and more likely to get leapfrogged by solid state batteries too. Half the world refuses to touch anything his companies produce.

          Tesla stock should be in the shitter, but results don’t matter anymore.

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            the hyperloop was an actual scam to stop claifornias fast rail system from being developed, long enough for elaine chao to block its funding.

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          Hyperloop was Musk’s tactic to distract from and destroy sensible public transportation. Tesla didn’t work on it or plan for it.

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          10 hours ago

          Ya most of his shit is stupid though

          It appears to me that your average human isn’t particularly smart so this hasn’t been to his detriment yet.

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    But he needs 1 trillion dollars for his robot army so he can retain control of his robot army so nobody else can have control of his robot army so he alone can rule the entire world with his robot army.

    Dude is a literal supervillain.

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      19 hours ago

      I’m just waiting for Musk to get his robots to learn how to feed off biomass and complete his transition to Ted Faro.

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        16 hours ago

        Reading this while waiting for HFW to load is an eerie coincidence. I very much would prefer to enjoy the post-apocalyptic world from behind the safety of the fourth wall.

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      What would be fair would be if he as he is sitting on the ground a Cybertruck in summon mode careened off the road pinning him against the building not killing him instantly but slowly while the radio in the car is playing a comedy show where he and his companies are the punchlines. The last thing he hears is his legacy being laughed at as a joke

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      I’d like to see his EGO want to be the first man to set foot on Mars.

      I wouldn’t be upset if something went catastrophically wrong.

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    From what I have read, he’s still likely to be able to line up enough votes to get his $1 trillion pay package (and the associated voting rights), despite a lot of major institutional investors being in opposition. But we’ll see when the vote goes though.

    I think that Tesla can probably get a more-effective CEO for less money, personally. Even if he leaves as CEO, he still owns 15% of Tesla and is fabulously wealthy as a result. I don’t feel like he’s getting a bad deal.

    I do think that there are some arguments that the SEC should pass some regulation to help ensure board-CEO independence; part of the issue is that the board, which is supposed to oversee Musk, has been considered to be acting on his behalf by quite a few people. I don’t think that it will happen under the present administration, though.

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    This is moot. Musk has never met a milestone once, and if he doesn’t meet milestones, he gets jack shit.

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      The reason his last pay package of 50 billion was awarded to him is because he met the milestones for that. It was a similar deal to this one where they set top end milestones that everyone felt were ridiculous and they’d never hit them. Mostly stock targets IIRC.