Topic: One Man's Mission to X $44 billion Goodbye

[Party Phil]

Employees $200M
Materials $150M
Rent $800M
CEO bonus and stock options $3,600M
Utility $150M
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my company is dying

[Jiminy Cricket]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/17/elon-musk-tesla-pay

Musk devotees on the board still want Musk to be paid $56B after the Dealware court rejects the pay award as 'unfathomable'.

[thejbs]

Musk’s obsession with creating worker robots doesn’t seem to chime with his dislike of layoffs. A cynic might think mass layoffs and robotisation are his end goal…

[thaddeus]

Musk’s obsession with creating worker robots doesn’t seem to chime with his dislike of layoffs. A cynic might think mass layoffs and robotisation are his end goal…

He's the embodiment of why so many people are nervous about AI and robotics.  It's not so much the enslavement of the human race by robots - although I wouldn't put it past Musk to fire the person responsible for the line of code that stops robots harming humans - but rather the enslavement of the human race by billionaires.

Each time there's a crossroads where advances in automation increase productivity and lower employee workloads they are taking the path that funnels more money to the top.  The natural conclusion will be that you're either one of the few sitting at the top of this pile or you're one of the many fighting over an ever decreasing slice of the pie.

[TepidT2O]

Once again their advertising is bizarre.

After being offered a hummingbird feeder on a regular basis I am now being offered cheap Hijabs. I have nothing against humans, but how poor is their ad targeting??!

[Jiminy Cricket]

Once again their advertising is bizarre.

After being offered a hummingbird feeder on a regular basis I am now being offered cheap Hijabs. I have nothing against humans, but how poor is their ad targeting??!

...but not as good as robots, ay?

[TepidT2O]

Ok bollocks, hijabs


Bloody phone predictive text