• macrocephalic@lemmy.world
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    Imagine if they had instead hired 500,000 people on $100,000 each. They could have bought the entire city of Detroit and had it making Teslas, instead they’ve got one coked up narcissist.

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      Musk is not getting billions worth salary. You can’t hire 500,000 people using his package. Unless you believe that these workers should be eating shares instead of food.

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        Once the shares vest then he can get the money. The point still stands, just not immediately.

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          The point doesn’t stand, because you can’t get 500,000 people.

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        You can offer shares to employees to supplement salary, its very common. It could be used to attract or retain staff by offering less salary but a larger overall package than their rivals and tie in the employees for a period of time till the shares vest.

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          Yeah, but not 500,000 of them.

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        Even if the shares drop by 90% of their value after distribution and liquidation, that’s still 50,000 people you could pay 100,000.