The big thing that I take away from this is two things:

Having a union threaten to hurt his mom likely be good enough for most.

he says the same thing every time a professional athlete signs a new contract.

I looked it up. $50 Billion is more money than Tesla has made in net profits since its inception. Not in a year. In the entire 20 year history, if you combine all of the net profit, it still is not $50B.

a market valuation of $700 billion

This ^^^ isn’t to justify Elon’s compensation or support the man...

“Working for free for 6 years” seems like a pretty big stick to me.

Credit Elon’s steering of the ship as consequential or inconsequential as you like, but he led the company to a market valuation of $700 billion

Lays off 10% of company workforce. Demands $56 BILLION dollar bonus. You know, the fabled excesses French revolution are staring to look tame these days.

The yeild on this would smoke any rental property you would buy for comparable money unless you get a real estate bubble and cash out at the right moment

Then they should all go and buy a GR86. If Toyota were selling the absolute crap out of those, other companies would take notice. Instead, everyone says they want one, but they buy a performance SUV.

Ah yes, only rich people companies can build rich people cars. I get it now.

Then enthusiasts should put their money where their mouth is and buy a GR86. It’s there.

It’s not like a Hellcat where it’s just an engine and almost nothing else. This is a completely bespoke body, suspension, etc. etc. etc. Ford is likely still losing money at $300k a piece. 

Ford build attainable Mustangs, it’s not like they ONLY make performance cars for rich people.

First of all, I admire the hell out of Ford for producing such a monster—take the Mustang to the Nth degree—super kudos. The GTD vaguely reminds me of the big wing ‘69 Charger Daytona: aerodynamics designed into an ultra-specialized build of a sporty car.

I’m always surprised how much hate this car gets. Enthusiasts are always begging mainstream manufacturers to build wild performance cars, and while this isn’t attainable for 99.9% of people, it’s very cool Ford did it.

Well it is Fords production version of a literal GT race car.

This is the completely wrong take.

My first rule of employment choice: don’t work for a terrible volatile company run by an idiot.