Summary

A Delaware judge upheld her earlier decision to void Elon Musk’s $56 billion Tesla CEO pay package, ruling it was improperly granted due to Musk’s control over Tesla and flawed board negotiations.

Tesla’s attempt to overturn the ruling through a shareholder vote was rejected, with the judge warning against revising judgments with new facts post-trial.

Musk called the ruling “absolute corruption” and plans to appeal.

Meanwhile, Musk’s net worth has surged, driven by Tesla’s stock jump following optimism about his alignment with Trump’s policies.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Good to see.

    this probably hurts him more than me saying he’s an incompetent nepo baby. (the best way to hurt rich fucks is to hurt their wallet, after all.)

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        The guillotine was actually meant to be painless. Properly constructed and sharpened it pretty much is. Or so I’m told.

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          Eh, I think all those pain receptors in your neck will send signals to your brain just fine, for a while.

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            5 months ago

            maybe you have a point. But can I loot all his money first and make him watch as i donate it to trans rights, maybe also some no-kill shelters. you know puppies and kittens. also, maybe end homelessness and take a bite out of world hunger?

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          5 months ago

          The brain is alive for minutes afterwards so don’t know what it would feel like.

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          While a quick and painless death certainly falls short of the misery they cause, I’m more concerned about ending that misery to the masses; it’s not so much about punishing the oppressors. …even if they do deserve to be skinned alive and then drowned in a pool of lemon juice; that’s just more work than it’s worth.

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      I think hurting his ego also hurts him, just look at the amount of people that get banned from X for doing it.

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        Dang, so instead of deleting my account I should’ve got it banned… That would’ve been better

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      That sum is close to the 44 billion spent on Twitter, could that somehow be the payment for it via inflating Tesla stock price?

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    I just leave one quote here:

    According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in the United States.

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    Wasn’t happy with the last ones what was it like 42?

    Fuck this guy so fucking hard.

    People don’t understand.

    If $50bn was stacked $10 bills, it’d be real high up neat. But if it was ripped over and on the ground… .it’d take OVER 10 HOURS AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS to drive its length.

    For reference $1m would be like 20 parking spaces in $1 bills.

    So… Like… Fuck man.

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      Elon Musk’s wealth is listed as about $337,000,000,000. If you earn $50K per year it would take you 6.74 million years to earn it, or 3.37 million years at $100K. If you earned a million dollars a year it would still take you 337,000 years. It’s an obscene amount of wealth to belong to one man.

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        This is what I mean when I try to explain to people that if they’re not pulling down multiple millions of dollars per year on the interest of their wealth…

        They are the middle class. And they’re basically poor.

        This shit is slipping fast.

        If you have a salary that’s in the hundreds of thousands and you think that you’re doing well? You’re just not very poor. You’re basically a slave. You’re a slave with bells and whistles.

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          If you have a salary that’s in the hundreds of thousands and you think that you’re doing well? You’re just not very poor. You’re basically a slave. You’re a slave with bells and whistles.

          Poor isn’t a measure of wealth compared to others. It also means “with less resources than you need to survive in a healthy way”. For most people $100k/year will let you survive in a healthy way. Above a certain dollar figure, having more money doesn’t let you live better, it just gets spent on unnecessary crap (or stacked up and hoarded).

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            In the short-term: yes.

            In the mid- to long-term: obscene inequality (like we are seeing currently) inevitably leads to awful awful things…

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          If you have a salary that’s in the hundreds of thousands and you think that you’re doing well?

          If you have that salary, then you can have a comfortable life. And if you have a comfortable life, then you are doing well.

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        I highly recommend On Freedom book but Timothy Snyder, it basically talks how the wealth is being stolen from us and now with help of modern technology like social media.

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    It boggles my mind why anyone would still be holding onto Tesla stock right now. The board and the Musk are actively trying to screw them over right now and one judge barely managed to prevent shareholders from getting shafted. How does it make any sense to hold onto Tesla shares at this point?

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    ruling that Musk had individually “controlled Tesla” and dictated the terms of his compensation to a board that didn’t fairly negotiate.

    I’d like like to know more about the makeup of this “board” who I assume were all hand picked by Musk.