The Trillion Dollar Man

So, the shareholders decided to give him a pay package of a trillion dollars so long as he meets some kind of financial goals – basically improving the stock price to some level.

They gave this guy the trillion-dollar package:

• the one who made juvenile faces at some Hollywood awards ceremony;
• the one who looked idiotic jumping around as the presidential candidate gave his speech at a rally;
• the one who looked high (maybe on ketamine?) as his eyes swam and his head bobbed;
• the one who gave Nazi hand signals (twice) at a rally;
• the one who pranced around a stage holding up a chainsaw in some mad frenzy;
• the one who told the Germans to uphold their antisemitism and Nazi history;
• the one who took over Twitter in an insane fashion to belie his supposed business prowess;
• the one who allowed Nazis to flourish on Twitter;
• the one who proceeded to slash government headcounts in such a haphazard way that some had to be rehired.

They gave that guy the trillion-dollar package.

I’ll say it again…shareholders are a part of our problem, not just the CEOs and large corporations. Shareholders when they make decisions such as the above. 75% of the Tesla shareholders decided to award him that pay package if he meets 12 conditions.

Some math on that trillion

Somebody did some interesting math on that trillion. If one were to spend $1 million a day, it would take that person roughly 2,740 years to spend $1 trillion. In other words, the person with a trillion dollars has too much money.

I did some Googling and the aforementioned stats was listed as well as

• If one were to count a trillion-dollar bills, one bill at a time, it would take 31,000 years. I wondered at how this stat was arrived at so I went to this site: https://smart.dhgate.com/the-mind-blowing-math-behind-counting-to-a-trillion-what-it-really-takes/#:~:text=more%20familiar%20with.-,Crunching%20the%20Time:%20How%20Long%20Would%20It%20Really%20Take%20to,An%20error%20occurred.
• If you laid the bills end to end, they would reach roughly 97 million miles, further than the distance from Earth to sun (no link provided to verify).
• A trillion dollars of one-dollar bills would weigh 2.2 billion pounds. (Again, no good link on how this was calculated.)

Does he deserve this?

I can’t believe the shareholders think he is deserving of such a pay package when he acts so recklessly and like a feckless juvenile.

And they should question whether it was him managing Tesla well. All signs indicate to me that he is more bluffing than reality: a lot of his proclamations of rolling out something end up being false.

I’ve heard that what he does is invest in these companies and then takes over and buy the company. He pretty much puts himself as the face of the company, leaving out the founders/inventors.

But there was a Wall Street Journal article that kind of indicates to me that the one who really goes in and solve the difficult production problems may be an investor/consultant by the name of Antonio Gracias.

Here’s the link to the article that makes me think that it is someone else who is making Tesla (and maybe other companies) a success: Elon Musk’s Mr. Fix-It Takes Center Stage During a Really Bad Week

So, yes, shareholders are a HUGE part of our problem.

Other funny math

I think it was last week where there was some kind of presentation by Dr. Oz. I’m not sure what the thrust of the presentation was but there was a line in there that quoted some funny numbers (I’m paraphrasing):

“Americans will lose roughly 135 billion pounds by the midterm elections.”

The presentation was one or two days after the elections of 11/4/2025, so the next midterm election will be 11/4/2026 or around then – close to one year from day of presentation.

A commenter/podcaster did some math: US presently has roughly 340 million people. So…to lose 135 billion pounds by all Americans by next year, we all have to lose 397 pounds, including the babies. Sorry babe, you can’t eat.

Another iconic image for the ages

[This topic is really as an aside and outside of the main topic here.]

We had one during the campaign last year – the one where the presidential candidate stood up and did his fight stance after the attempted assassination. We could tell that that one was going to be around for the ages.

But I didn’t think we would have another one.

Last week we had the president facing towards the cameras with what I interpret as a pissed face while behind him, to his left, people were congregated around a man who had fainted.

That image was an instant blow up.