#Billionaire Elon #Musk's record-breaking $US56 billion pay package approved by #Tesla shareholders
Shareholders also approved a proposal to re-elect his brother, Kimbal Musk, and son of media mogul Rupert #Murdoch, James Murdoch, as board members.
@Alpha1Nine it’s no different than Trump investing in truth social and walking away with $20 billion when it IPO’ed. Yes it’s a lot of money, but he gambled/invested in the company and they rewarded him with stock. If Tesla had failed he would have had a handful of worthless paper.
Let him have his reward maybe he will buy a couple of Supreme Court judges next time.
But w/the vote set to conclude Thurs at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Austin, the outcome seemed far from certain. Major shareholders are divided on whether #ElonMusk, one of the world’s richest men who has been at times a distracted leader, deserves such a reward. That means the outcome could rest on the votes of individual investors, many of whom bought the stock because of #Musk’s public image as a generational genius.
@Nonilex Surpsingly, even without a humanoid robot and Elon's insistence we all vote to let him sipon off more money for his pet authoritarian projects (and donations to authoritarians), I did manage to cast my own votes. I did the human, not humanoid thing and told him to fuck off.
#KetanjiBrownJackson also accepted 4 tickets worth nearly $4k from #Beyoncé to one of her concerts, & 2 pieces of art worth $12.5k to display in her chambers.
“Justice Jackson is Crazy in Love w/Beyoncé's music. Who isn’t?” said court spox Patricia McCabe.
Justice #Sotomayor reported a turn as a character on a #PBS children’s show “Alma’s Way,” a cartoon about a Puerto Rican girl & her family from the Bronx. The justice was paid ~$1.9k for voice work on 1 episode in which she played herself.
@Nonilex I wish there were a leftist political machine. But if there were such a machine, would Biden be our guy? The reality is Biden is right of center politically. He always has been.
Can we quit saying “A fellow #billionaire helped bail #donaldtrump out”? #Trump is not a fucking billionaire. If you believe otherwise, you are too stupid to have a say in our #democracy.
Tax data obtained by @ProPublica provides a glimpse of what congressional investigators would find if Crow were to open his books…. Crow’s voyages w/Thomas, the data shows, contributed to a nice side benefit: They helped reduce Crow’s tax bill.…
In an opinion essay in The WSJ, Justice #Alito responded to questions about his #PrivateJet travel to a #luxury fishing trip w/a #GOP#MegaDonor#billionaire who frequently has cases before the #SupremeCourt hours before the ProPublica article was published.
The justice wrote he was not required to #disclose the trip or #recuse himself from his benefactor’s cases.