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  • 100%. Even if true, it’s 16.7 hours if he divides it up evenly between 6 companies. Which is about two eight-hour days.

    Also, does anyone really think that working 14.3 hours, 7 days a week, is sustainable? I don’t believe he’s working 100 hours a week.

    Anyway, the more that a certain type of person lionizes Elon as the pinnacle of American-style capitalism, the more they are actually doing quite a lot to tear down their bullshit narratives they’ve worked so hard for decades to build about executive pay.

    Most of us probably knew quite well it was nonsense, probably even saw examples in our lives of people in the C-suite who were quite full of themselves and how “hard” they “work”, while taking quite a bit of the credit and almost all of the profits. Oh, and if they fail, these self-styled heroes don’t go down with the ship like mere hoi polloi heroes. Oh no, these heroes of capitalism will parachute out and land on gigantic piles of cash as a result of failing. But we were told these people are like top athletes and put in so much hours of intense visionary work, at a pace few other humans could ever do, and so they deserve all this cushy treatment.

    With Elon, the math is just self-evident. Being an executive, in one of the most successful cases, is most definitely a part-time job.




  • The “tea party” did the same thing for conservatism. The “tea party” thing morphed into the “maga” thing. The “maga” bullshit will likely go through a re-branding if Taco flames out anything like W did.

    Imagine if we had a media that actually pointed out that all this bullshit was going on and not letting the Nazis burn their uniforms and pretend they never heard of W, or Pedonald, and certainly were never part of this Republican Party thing, they are just “independents” who are “taxed enough already”, LOL.

    Imagine if, instead of that - we had a media that didn’t feel the need to be needlessly “objective” in the face of massive amounts of lying, and instead, pointed out that all these people are Republicans. That “tea bagger/tea party” == “maga” == “alt right” == conservative == Republican.

    It’s all the same awful people with basically the same agenda: steal money from the lower and middle class, give it to the parasitic class of elites, crush labor and let corporations rule, while using racist/misogynist policies and rhetoric to get just enough morons to vote for them. I wish we had a media that would not be shy about rigorously pointing this out and every opportunity, but most of our media is run by the very same corporations that wish to rule…












  • It’s interesting to note that given the evidence of Elon, that being a CEO is a part time job. It has to be. It’s impossible for Elon to work 40 hours a week at 6 companies.

    And I’ve always been told by the people that excuse outrageously out-of-step executive pay with this bullshit narrative about how they are the best and the brightest (just like top athletes, don’t you know!), and they work long hours, probably more than anyone else at the company and other such hilarious fictions. They are basically the Michael Jordans of capitalism, yadda yadda.

    This guy cannot be working even 40 hours at all six of his companies. That’s simply impossible, even if he never slept.





  • The man who was hit with the sandwich was CBP agent Gregory Lairmore, who told the jury earlier this week that the sandwich “kind of exploded all over my uniform” and “smelled of onions and mustard”, according to the Washington Post. The defense pushed back, as it appeared in imagery from the scene that the sandwich did not leave its wrapper.

    LOL, how is this not The Onion?

    Anyway, it’d be nice to be able to sue the shit out of those responsible for wasting this guy’s time, reinstall him in his job, and give him all back pay.