The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.
The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
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"Musk promised to refocus his attention on Tesla after the carmaker’s sales collapsed in Europe and other key markets during his time working in the Trump administration".
I wonder how many normal people get a pay rise to help them "focus" after screwing up at work? www.ft.com/content/ae08...
Tesla board awards $30bn of shares to ‘energise and focus’ Elon Musk
World’s richest man threatened to quit as chief executive of electric-vehicle maker if he was not given more stock
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Like he is a toddler, give him a sucker to get his attention and shut him up. Totally pathetic.
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I would have locked him inside one of his autonomous driving death traps to 'energize' him.
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Elon needs to be stripped of wealth, investigated & jailed.
His wealth needs to go to the US taxpayers where it can fund social security, medicare, medicaid, food programs. The American people have funded this welfare queen too long.
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It's disgusting how money just falls into the laps of the already super wealthy. Meanwhile, federal minimum wage hasn't budged since the 90s.
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Yes, let's "energize" and "focus" the Nazi! Fucking morons!
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Imagine how much they would give him if he HADN'T given that Nazi salute which resulted in plummeting sales globally and significant drops in the share price. It's obscene.
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We are just minions to be used for our labor but must keep our opinions to ourselves.
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Get rid of those Teslas.
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Let’s bring them all down at once. Stop buying Teslas.
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For what?
Oh, yeah, Muskow is an effing puppet
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I can't wait for the Tesla stock to implode and a margin call comes in.
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Except for the retirement accounts have, which I cannot direct, I have no money invested in anything of leon's and I hope I can keep it that way
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So when I have someone working for me that's doing a rotten job, I should give them a raise?
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Yet more evidence that he's a mentally unstable toddler playing with WMD.
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Why don’t they just confiscate his horse tranquilliser?
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Death to the billionaires! They shouldn't exist!
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They're his drug buddies.
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I'm sure billions to a billionaire will ensure that he is no longer bored and is properly incentivized. After all, NOW he can finally buy that thing that he couldn't afford before.
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Why I would never own a Tesla
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Given the damage he did to the brand, it will be worth about $50 in a year or less.
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How giving more money to a man who has more money than he can spend in his lifetime, an incentive?
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👎👎👎🤬🤬🤬👿👿
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Couldn't they have just gone with, "Musk's beatings will continue until his morale improves" instead?
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The man who drove the stocks into the toilet single-handedly needs to be rewarded by that same company? Good God, get me off this planet
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The guy is flying high in Ketamin most of the time…you don’t want to “energize” him!
And for his “focus” it is on his new Nazi party that they are in fact helping funding...
Teasla board is going down and they deserve it 🖕
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And all they had to do was wean him off of ketamine.
Rehab is much cheaper.
But bad publicity.
OK.
It makes sense now.
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Please.....😤
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Shouldn't that headline be more along the lines of "Musk extorts $30Bil from Tesla board?
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🤮🤮🤮🤮
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Enron much?
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can't they just throw him off a cliff or something, it would be cheaper
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This makes the company complicit in supporting a nazi and despicable human
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WTF
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Tax the rich! Fuck the rich🖕Tax the fucking rich! Tax the fuck out of the rich!
Oh and FUCK YOU elon the con 🖕
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And there lays the extinction of the human race!
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Yeah, well I would like to incentivize him by tanking Tesla’s stock. He’s robbing us of our data. He’s using our tax $ to build rockets that explode. He’s a robber. #TeslaTakedown
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something something in-groups who get carrots but not sticks, alongside out-groups who get sticks but not carrots
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He will never get left leaning green energy buyers back.
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A paltry 30B for focused attention? There's trillions to be made in the US Treasury/DODGY COIN scam. Tesla just gave that 30B away for nothing, Leon knows where to keep his attention.
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Telsa isn't a toxic company, Musk is the toxic leader. If they gave him 30 billion to sod off then they would have a chance of survival. Musk is going to asset strip Tesla into XAI and sell it off to some clowns.
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Fleecing the company dry as it slowly dies.
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Talk about the Peter principle 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮‼️
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Incentivised to what? Last time I looked, Tesla sales were tanking globally. So, the board gave him $30 billion-with-a-B to fail? That's what they thought Tesla should invest in?
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I’m starting to think Musk must have dirt on the rest of the board if they’re still not willing to cut him loose?
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I don't think that will energise him. It will pay for a lot of ketamine though.
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So true. They will otherwise leave to other shores where the incentives are better...is this the world we want to leave in? Not me
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Also known as Republican ideology. Such a kind and patriotic people. /s
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Tesla is ran by stupid people. It’s gotta be like a different kind of Trump cult.
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That is one expensive Drug Treatment Center.
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Less ket more "speed".
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And they they dare wonder why we cheer the Luigi’s of the world.
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👎👎👎
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What the Fuck!? Elon needs to be pilloried and flog to get him to focus.
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Holy shit !!!
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Maybe he can get back to our good graces if he releases the Epstein files.
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WTLF?!!!
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The greedy getting greedier? Unfreakingbelievable! I take that back! It is so believable that it is blatantly obvious that they seem to want to make John D. Rockefeller or Wm. Randolph Hearst or Bernie Madoff look like pikers!
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Tesla continues its march into Stupidity. Fantastic.
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Ketamine
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The “Protestant Work Ethic” only applies to the poor apparently.
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Humility must be the only thing we give to the rich pricks who are trying to own the world. Take everything else away.
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Just give him something shiny or show him a picture of Trump or Mars. Anything really and he will be incentivized.
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No one is going to buy a Swasticar. Elon, like all Nazi scum, can fcuk off
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He keeps failing up.
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It takes me back to the time of the recession when the big banks that had to be bailed out by the government turned around and gave millions in bonuses to the CEOs,
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This guy is the biggest fraud. He is isreali. Do not let him take c9ntrol of our political offices. Let him live as the druggie eccentric he is .
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Rewarding him to get his focus back? Really? FFS!!
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Snort a shitload of ketamine and go off the rails. Get a $30B equity grant.
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📌
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And especially after he's always saying that he doesn't do it for the money... What a POS..
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Tesla board still doesn’t get it! Musk is the reason for Tesla and all his other companies are suffering! It’s the man more than the brand!
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It would be a lot cheaper to just send him to a therapist.
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If you are a collaborator, should Americans ever forget, would it be helpful to keep Wikipedia pages up to date on how people reacted in this era?
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The Tesla board consists largely of his family members.
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Man have they been bamboozled. If there was anything musk could do to improve Tesla’s fortune and his fortune and sell more cars he would’ve already done it. The fact is he is now being shown for what he’s always been, a pretender.
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A baseball bat upside his pointy Nazi skull would have been cheaper and easier.
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So he can lie better. Or steal the achievements of others better?
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Worse than incentivizing a Nazi is that these individuals don’t even bother to hide it. This is an affront to anyone with common sense and morals.
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They can give him all the shares they like - his car sales will continue to go down the toilet as many choose to not touch his brand regardless and others choose to prefer chinese and other rivals which are both better and cheaper.
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Incentivize him to run the company into the ground?
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GROSS, FUCKING DISGUSTING
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As I have long thought. Why is it those at the top require extraordinary rewards to motivate them to work whilst the reverse applies to everyone else
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#TankTesla
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I would so have called his bluff. Plenty of 21 y/o Univ grads would do a better CEO job than he.
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💯🎯
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actual footage of the boardroom meeting.
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damn 30 billion to a guy who tanked the company and continues to give it a bad name, wow. I actually saw a Republican supporting Trump firing the woman who put out the jobs report saying "if you made these mistakes in the private sector you'd be fired", looks like he was wrong.
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So basically Tesla is giving him back the money he spent on trumps campaign plus more. If that’s the case did musk help Trump or did Tesla?
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And as in prior elitist-driven societies, their end may well be…bloody.
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JFC - giving him a reward for what is obscene. He needs to find out what it’s like when you fail at something.
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Nothing like being rewarded for being a terrible human, not to mention a screw-up
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And the Tesla Board is............ ir.tesla.com/corporate
Corporate Governance | Tesla Investor Relations
The Board of Directors of Tesla, Inc. sets high standards for the Company's employees, officers and directors.
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If only we could be sure a special level of hell awaits them.
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The only thing Musk does for Tesla, is energize those who 2 years ago were considering buying a Tesla, to look elsewhere.
Personally, I'm looking at a @fordmotorsofficial.bsky.social Bronco Hybrid.
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$30 Billion?
Wow thats a lot of Ketamine.
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“His public persona (who he really is) hobbled our company and lost us a lot of $, so let’s give him more $ so he’s less sad about it.”
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It’s a very peculiar belief that one person is responsible for success or failure and not the people who do the work. We fetishize CEOs. Like sports idols.
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even after Elon handed them an ironic, funny, easy out...
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Well put.
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Yeah, fuck these people. I will celebrate, laugh & give them a 1 finger salute when the good people of the world shun them, bankrupt them, & make the billionaires obsolete.
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Tesla takedown still needs to happen. He's just out of the limelight.
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I am sooooooo glad I did not buy one of these
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MAGA needs to wake up and realize they've been played.
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If that were an incentive to release the full Epstein files with NO reductions and deletions of the Orange Obscenity, I'm behind it. Otherwise, Tesla and the board can go pi$$ up a rope.🤬
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I think the MAGAts ate into his brain. I believe he can't focus anymore. Special K can cause brain damage when abused. Most of the elites are morally bankrupt. I'm a disciplined poor person, and I don't understand why people like me support elitism. I just don't get it. So, I say F them all!
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Elon Musk threw the Nazi salute twice at trump's inauguration and was granted power to fire government employees dismantle government agencies and overtake government computer systems.
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A privilege afforded to people whom at THIS high..
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It’s a dying company. We killed it. 💪🏽🇺🇸🔥
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I'm gonna show up in flip flops, a robe and jorts at work and just play on my Steamdeck all day. My manager idolizes Musk, so I'll be rolling in cash before 26 starts.
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Kind of like how DOGE went around throwing more money at government agencies to focus and incentivize them. Oh wait, I’m being told they just plundered their databases and fired everybody.
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Throwing good money after bad….Tesla is on a downward trajectory and, unless Musk leaves, it will not turn around.
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$30B to court the guy who stole everyone's private data during his short gov stint
His companies seem unsalvageavle to me, analysts been calling out their ridiculous valuation VS actual revenue + how his technology is inferior to global competition & artificially preserved by embargo / import taxes
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Well, that makes Tesla’s potential margin call price a little lower.
We’ll still get there, fam. The car company is a Zombie already
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Imagine anyone other than a rich white guy had made such a catalogue of miscalculations of error that he did and being rewarded for it. Nope...you can't can you? BECAUSE IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN TO ANY OTHER CLASS OF HUMAN
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This is why I would never buy a Tesla
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... to "energize and focus Elon Musk"
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Fuck Tesla
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The rich must be made to fear the poor in a way that hasn't happened in a long time.
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I would just like to see him leave our country for good and never return.
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Don’t tell me he isn’t a greedy little cunt! They SHOULD let him quit. Clearly he’s utterly incompetent at this point. Maybe he wasn’t always, but ketamine has turned his Nazi-saluting brain into mush.
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Strong messaging here, Dems better capitalize on it. “The rich must be incentivized while the poor must be disciplined.”
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The Tesla board is not fulfilling their fiduciary responsibilities to their stock holders. Normally, boards would fire a CEO that oversaw the steep decreases in both sales and stock price.
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🤮 this is not what our country was founded on.
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I need to focus too. Can I get in on that deal😂
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Why TF did they award him shares? The man is a disaster for... well, the whole planet, really, but certainly for Tesla as a company.
"Hey, this guy just tanked our brand worldwide and we're losing lots of money!" "I have an idea: Let's give him more money to stay. That'll fix things."
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Obscene
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You can also energise somebody by threatening to fire them.
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Why doesn’t he do it because “it’s a calling” or whatever they tell teachers.
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They should give him the boot. People hate him because he is a drug induced narcissist.
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As if he’s going to do ANYTHING that will help their brand proving the dipshits in “Leadership” in Tech companies are the least innovative fucks on the planet- gaming the system/ $$ laundering at the highest level on the backs of their workers.
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End all his companies - by all means necessary.
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Nicolas Tesla was one of the greatest investors of his time. Unfortunately, his competitors at the time became successful in business, where Tesla did not. Not only that, but Nicholas Tesla died broke.
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What, he couldn't find his bootstraps?
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I hope this award is taxed!
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Disgusting. Note there are no Musk libraries, or playgrounds, or schools, etc.
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$30 billion for focus? I need to renegotiate my coffee budget 😅 But seriously—do we reward power too much just for showing up?
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So the WORLD’S FUCKING RICHEST MAN needs financial incentives? Have I got that right?
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Giving Elmo another $30 billion in Tesla shares isn’t going to make it more likely that I buy a Tesla at anytime in the future.
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yeah it usually takes about 35 or 40 billion to "focus"
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All the evidence suggests that monetary incentives only work for repetitive manual jobs.
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I can't belief he threatened to quit and they didn't take him up on the offer.
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JFC. He's all but destroyed their image, trashed our government and lets not forget the Nazi salute.... and they give him more fucking money?
I would have been like, "don't let the door hit your ass on the way out."
So yeah, never getting a fucking Tesla, ever.
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Seems odd that given the failure rate they still think he is the Genie in the Bottle that will save Tesla
What do they do with the CyberTruck Brain Fart ?
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Hahaha It's a bribe . The poor don't need bribes. They need a hand up.
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Of their shareholders money?
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Vile. Like a spoiled child.
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I can't believe they are that stupid. Can't they see that Tesla is dying, and he's just cashing out?
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They deserve their downfall.
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“He’s already stupidly wealthy and thinks he can do anything, but keeps ruining his companies and his own personal brand?
“Let’s give him more money!”
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I saw a documentary about workhouses in Victorian London where the poor were sent when they could not pay bills anymore. Honestly the treatment was inhumaine and I doubt a lot has changed in the past 200 years. Sad really
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Petulant child
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Hahaha. They gotta do something. Down 18% over 6 months.
-68.02 (-17.99%)past 6 months www.google.com/search?q=tes...
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There you have it!!
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It's absolutely disgusting.
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FYI TESLA will never earn back what Elon lost for them. NEVER Elon is the same as saying NEVER trump. Glad that other EV car companies will pass him by sooner than later.
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I know exactly what I’d like to give him.
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Man who has more wealth than any human being could ever use needs more to incentivise him. If it wasn’t so ridiculously decadent it would be funny.
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Never buy a Nazi car and we really need to tax the shit out of the rich…. 😒
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Then, if you’re right, and I desperately hope you are, the shareholders will suffer.
The beauty of the market is that when it doesn’t make financial sense, the house of cards drops. Not always instantly.
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Tesla is committing corporate suicide.
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So the ketamine wasn't enough?
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57 years of public broadcasting corporation funding
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Tesla bust in 5 years ?
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This is capitalism?
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They should have fired him. He's the reason the brand is garbage. People have seen their true colors.
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Is this going to result in Tesla focusing on the development of saleable new products that are a) not vapourware, and b) not shit? Because if they don't they're doomed regardless of Elron's involvement or otherwise.
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What in the name of pixelated fuck?! Bitch, you’re supposed to do your job that you signed up and get paid for! FFS
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I should have talked to the board and let them know I would have been energized and focused - if they only gave me $30K
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Sadly true.
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THIS is why we must tax the billionaires! They actually DO have most of the money and should be taxed!!
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We won't forget.
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Buh-bye now.
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Quite literally the definition of hush money "Elon. We will pay you money to just shut up and stop tweeting an hopefully the lemmings will forget that your a nazi and start buying our cars again l, replenishing the boards coffers for our new skyscraper mansions".
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Rewarding bad behavior. Perfect. :(
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#EatTheRich
We, The People, need to stand up for ourselves and each other and fight back!!
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So Tesla, who’s name is mud and product boycotted because of their association with the Nazi musk offered him more money to stay? How is that going to help when their product has documented defects and outright fraud that should be illegal.
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This pay raise for Elon is OBSCENE. The rich think they have defeated us. We have to go back to FDR ERA. The rich have to pay pay more taxes. They are making themselves richer and making all the rest of us poorer. FUCK TGE BILLIONAIRES. FUCK TRUMP. FUCK THE SUPREME COURT. These stealing bastards.
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What makes the board think that throwing $30 billion more at a Nazi is going to make anyone want to buy a Nazimobile?
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The Tesla board are a bunch of spineless kiss-asses.
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Wow, did anyone really need another reason to drop Tesla?
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WTF
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They can stroke and coddle Elon all they want, but Tesla is 💀.
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$30b to the guy who gutted social services … as an incentive??? I have a steel cap boot, which when correctly placed, can offer a similar incentive and at a minuscule percentage of the cost.
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When is this dude gonna live in a Vegas hotel and start saving his piss and fingernails in jars?
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These people can’t be overthrown fast enough
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$30 billion! Pfffttt! I wouldn't get out of bed for $30 billion. I mean that literally. I'd be sleeping on it.
