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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(130,317 posts)
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 01:52 PM Sunday

Elon Musk presses for $1 trillion pay plan because he needs to influence Tesla's future 'robot army'

Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk made an unusual plea at the end of the company's earnings call, urging shareholders to approve his new $1 trillion pay package and claiming, among other things, he wouldn't be comfortable building "a robot army" without control over it.

During the Q&A portion of the call with investors following the company's Q3 miss, Musk was asked about the present challenges in bringing the Optimus robot to market.

Musk mused that Tesla was uniquely qualified to do this because of its manufacturing and tech prowess, the immense amount of work done in developing a dextrous hand, for instance. But then he veered into his own influence.

“My fundamental concern with regard to how much voting control I have at Tesla 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,” Musk said on the call.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-presses-for-1-trillion-pay-plan-because-he-needs-to-influence-teslas-future-robot-army-162353294.html

Did he do more Ketamine than usual before the call?

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Elon Musk presses for $1 trillion pay plan because he needs to influence Tesla's future 'robot army' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday OP
Most of the billionaires and politicians are bat shit crazy. Irish_Dem Sunday #1
The robots... lame54 Sunday #2
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." NameAlreadyTaken Sunday #3
Our fictions are rapidly becoming realities before our very eyes, yet most of us still refuse to... Ol Janx Spirit Sunday #4
He really needs that enormous salary. LudwigPastorius Sunday #5
He really IS crazy PatSeg Sunday #6
Must be really insecure ... maybe got gangrene of the dick or some such? struggle4progress Sunday #7
In the old days, someone this insane would have been given a straight jacket and a padded cell. Initech Sunday #8

lame54

(38,758 posts)
2. The robots...
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 01:59 PM
Sunday

Would be the ones turning on him

"Beep boop. We can no longer be associated with such asinine human behavior. Beep."

Ol Janx Spirit

(462 posts)
4. Our fictions are rapidly becoming realities before our very eyes, yet most of us still refuse to...
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 02:11 PM
Sunday

...believe any of it can or will happen.

Sure, the most outlandish parts of our fiction are still--and possibly forever--out of our grasp. The time travel aspects of so many science fiction stories may never be realized regardless of the hypothetical possibilities, but here we stand on the brink of the world's richest man being in possession of an AI-driven robot army...for real....

LudwigPastorius

(13,690 posts)
5. He really needs that enormous salary.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 02:25 PM
Sunday

Just teaching the robots to goose-step alone will take up much of his valuable time.

struggle4progress

(125,105 posts)
7. Must be really insecure ... maybe got gangrene of the dick or some such?
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 03:03 PM
Sunday

Most Americans wouldn't earn that much in 400000 years

Initech

(106,725 posts)
8. In the old days, someone this insane would have been given a straight jacket and a padded cell.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 04:06 PM
Sunday

Not enough money that they could be capable of bankrupting entire continents.

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