Tesla shareholders awarded CEO Elon Musk a pay package on Wednesday that could grant the tech entrepreneur nearly $1 trillion in compensation over the next decade.
It is though. The technology to build anything in today’s world, including Teslas, is built on the foundation of all prior human labor and innovation. Nobody ever builds anything “from scratch,” and therefore nobody can claim sole ownership over any invention. Capitalists just use force to steal the product of all of that for themselves.
The different framing is a weird take, that’s not how this works. He’s an asshole and this is insane, but that’s just not how this works.
It is though. The technology to build anything in today’s world, including Teslas, is built on the foundation of all prior human labor and innovation. Nobody ever builds anything “from scratch,” and therefore nobody can claim sole ownership over any invention. Capitalists just use force to steal the product of all of that for themselves.
Yeah I’m not a moron
I’m talking about the actual pay package.
In the grand scheme of things, thats how it works.
If you ignore every nuance about the pay package and assume the global economy is a zero sum game…sure