Elon Musk can't keep Tesla's landmark pay package worth more than $55 billion
Elon Musk can't keep Tesla's landmark pay package worth more than $55 billion
Defense attorneys countered that the pay was fairly negotiated by a compensation committee whose members were independent.
Capitalism, but only if it doesn't affect shareholder value if the CEO does too well. This was part of the contract signed with Musk ages ago.
It's absurd that anyone could get that wealthy honestly and Musk is an asshole but he delivered exactly what he said he would under the compensation agreement. It seems pretty wild that you can agree to pay someone a certain amount provided they meet a target, then when they meet that target you take them to court and the court says you don't have to pay them.
That said, I think to say he's already been fairly compensated is a ridiculous understatement and I don't know much about the case. Sounds like something was up with the negotiations and I'm not going to shed too many tears over some billionaire being slightly less of a billionaire than they could have been.
Tesla has returned near zero to shareholders yet. I don't think people understand this. Yes share value had increased but from an investment perspective, a company must return to investors in the form of dividends or share buybacks an amount equal to that of all capital raised plus some percentage to justify the risk and time invested. That has to happen at some point.
That doesn't mean the company does not provide something to society but from an overall investment perspective, Tesla has yet to return a dollar yet. All that has happened so far is that many people gave a great deal of money to Tesla then a bunch more people exchanged money back and forth.
This whole thing is a perverted joke about our corrupted society. Billionaires drag each other to court over who gets to be even more of a billionaire while people working 2 jobs in that same fucking country can't make rent.
Redistribute those billions among the Tesla workers who actually did the work for fucks sake.
The CEOs of the fortune 500 companies are some of the highest paid people when their full packages are included. But their wages and compensation packages pale in respect to what Musk is taking from Tesla. With that package, Musk could pay all the compensation packages and wages for every fortune 500 CEO. Not only could be pay the entire amount, he could do it for the next 15 years.