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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I cannot believe these people make more than me lol.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

They make nothing. They're compensated for destroying things, and considering it's musk, they're likely given relatively little money in return for their time.

Even if the only thing you do all day is sit on the toilet and yell at the Internet, you're already a bigger net positive on society.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We're going to see all of these clowns in front of a grand jury one day.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

The reason he recruited a bunch of incompetent college kids is because nobody with any experience or wisdom would touch this rolling crime wave with a 10 foot pole

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I would be absolutely shocked if we had anything approaching justice for what this administration is doing.

We barely got anything for that whole ass insurrection attempt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most likely compensation is the promise of being part of privatization of whatever the fuck they're destroying.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're dumb kids. They probably see Musk as some kind of god. He gave them some line like "Hey, you guys wanna save the United States?" and they jumped at the chance.

You get to be a piece of history! Whheeeeeee

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

As a former dumb kid this tracks