Get Cozy

On November 6th, 2025, Tesla shareholders voted “yes” on a compensation package for Elon Musk at $878B (that’s billion) over the next 10 years. It may be slightly less if he misses targets, and more if he exceeds them (because at $878B, it’s not enough to try hard to BEAT forecasts, I guess?). Yes, there are millions of people that hold Tesla stock – including me. I voted “no” on the proposal via the website, but it was worth noting the ask was soaked in bias towards approval. I simply felt inordinate compensation like this was best left to fiction writers as they attempted to model an archvillain of some sort.

One person, who will be worth over $1T (that’s trillion) in the near future, is unfathomable wealth and power, even at a fraction of that amount. The number is comical – and it creates a microeconomy concentrated into a single, unstable individual, who will move markets, world leaders, and financial entities on a whim… a ketamine-induced, adderall-driven whim.

This is akin to giving a blind-drunk person the keys to your Bentley, with a bottle of vodka and a handgun, to go pick up your kids at the mall – in a different city.

My favorite Musk quote from his reaction to the compensation approval is: “If I go ahead and build this enormous robot army, can I just be ousted at some point in the future? That’s my biggest concern. I don’t feel comfortable building that robot army if I don’t have at least a strong influence,” he said.

A robot army? Under the control and desires of Elon Musk? Is this the plot of The Avengers 12? This is a man with 14 children by 4 different women. I mean, “impulsive” doesn’t seem to scrape the surface of who this guy is.

“Elon would like a word about what you just posted on Instagram…”

This really happened. Not even the the first page of the news on any websites. I scrolled to find it.

Between AI and now “robot armies”, some may think we are engineering our own demise. James Cameron and the Wachowski siblings didn’t realize their fiction was to be used as documentary material for a young Elon Musk, but here we are.

Elon does say, “It’s not about compensation, it’s about influence.” But, if I must be paid, it might as well be a trillion dollars, amiright? It’s not like he could ever spend this money – even Smaug realized this, and opted to just cuddle with it (though not even Smaug could have imagined THIS kind of wealth).

Does expressing these concerns make me a socialist, I wonder? Stay away from New York City, Elon – you don’t want to know what’s happening here!