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Reject $56 Billion Pay Package for Elon Musk, Urges Proxy Advisor

Tesla shareholders were advised to reject the $56 billion pay package for Elon Musk, CEO of the company, by proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis. Such a recommendation followed concerns over the deal’s “excessive size” and its potentially dilutive effect. Moreover, Glass Lewis pointed out that Musk is working on a number of high-demanding projects, such as the recent deal for Twitter, now called X.

The pay package was proposed by Tesla’s board of directors. Critics often cast doubt on their close ties with Musk. The package has no salary or cash bonus but offers rewards if Tesla’s market value hits $650 billion in ten years from 2018. At the moment, Tesla’s market value is around $571.6 billion.

Delaware’s Court of Chancery Judge Kathaleen McCormick nullified the original pay package this January. Shortly after that, Musk made attempts to shift Tesla’s state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas. However, Glass Lewis criticized the proposed move as having “uncertain benefits and additional risk” for shareholders.

Read More:(https://theleadersglobe.com/business/reject-56-billion-pay-package-for-elon-musk-urges-proxy-advisor/)

[nando161mando]

Surely shareholders can sue right?

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BRUH

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Elon Musk wrests back his Tesla payout package in shareholder vote

Tesla shareholders endorsed a record $56 billion payout to CEO Elon Musk, according to NBC News.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday won shareholder support in his fight to get back a $56 billion pay package. Shareholders were faced with the question of whether to bless a pay package they originally approved in 2018, but which a Delaware judge deemed illegal under that state’s corporate law.

Shareholders, in the end, voted to reinstate the package, Brandon Ehrhart, Tesla’s general counsel and secretary of the board, said on stage at the company’s annual shareholder meeting. Apart from this, they also voted to relocate Tesla’s corporate headquarters to Texas from Delaware, leaving the state where most large companies incorporate, after Musk criticised Delaware’s court system.

The Tesla CEO used his X account to drum up support among retail investors and criticise those who opposed him, such as the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund. Musk has 187 million followers on the X social network.

Musk’s victory fell on the shoulders of individual Tesla investors who backed him by a wide margin, according to Musk. However, the shareholder vote solidified his position at the helm of Tesla. Musk nearly threatened to leave Tesla if shareholders didn’t give him more shares.

Read more HERE

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And when you leave take Linda with you!

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Judge rules Musk pay unfair

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So Tesla shareholders are suing Elon Musk for allegedly using Twitter while doing hard drugs, making it the first time a rich white guy has gotten into legal trouble for using drugs

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Tesla's Dieselgate

Elon Musk lies a lot. He lies about being a “utopian socialist.” He lies about being a “free speech absolutist.” He lies about which companies he founded:

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cofounder-martin-eberhard-interview-history-elon-musk-ev-market-2023-2 He lies about being the “chief engineer” of those companies:

https://www.quora.com/Was-Elon-Musk-the-actual-engineer-behind-SpaceX-and-Tesla

He lies about really stupid stuff, like claiming that comsats that share the same spectrum will deliver steady broadband speeds as they add more users who each get a narrower slice of that spectrum:

https://www.eff.org/wp/case-fiber-home-today-why-fiber-superior-medium-21st-century-broadband

The fundamental laws of physics don’t care about this bullshit, but people do. The comsat lie convinced a bunch of people that pulling fiber to all our homes is literally impossible — as though the electrical and phone lines that come to our homes now were installed by an ancient, lost civilization. Pulling new cabling isn’t a mysterious art, like embalming pharaohs. We do it all the time. One of the poorest places in America installed universal fiber with a mule named “Ole Bub”:

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-one-traffic-light-town-with-some-of-the-fastest-internet-in-the-us

Previous tech barons had “reality distortion fields,” but Musk just blithely contradicts himself and pretends he isn’t doing so, like a budget Steve Jobs. There’s an entire site devoted to cataloging Musk’s public lies:

https://elonmusk.today/

But while Musk lacks the charm of earlier Silicon Valley grifters, he’s much better than they ever were at running a long con. For years, he’s been promising “full self driving…next year.”

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/herbies-revenge/#100-billion-here-100-billion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money

He’s hasn’t delivered, but he keeps claiming he has, making Teslas some of the deadliest cars on the road:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

Tesla is a giant shell-game masquerading as a car company. The important thing about Tesla isn’t its cars, it’s Tesla’s business arrangement, the Tesla-Financial Complex:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/24/no-puedo-pagar-no-pagara/#Rat

Once you start unpacking Tesla’s balance sheets, you start to realize how much the company depends on government subsidies and tax-breaks, combined with selling carbon credits that make huge, planet-destroying SUVs possible, under the pretense that this is somehow good for the environment:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#killer-analogy

But even with all those financial shenanigans, Tesla’s got an absurdly high valuation, soaring at times to 1600x its profitability:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/15/hoover-calling/#intangibles

That valuation represents a bet on Tesla’s ability to extract ever-higher rents from its customers. Take Tesla’s batteries: you pay for the battery when you buy your car, but you don’t own that battery. You have to rent the right to use its full capacity, with Tesla reserving the right to reduce how far you go on a charge based on your willingness to pay:

https://memex.craphound.com/2017/09/10/teslas-demon-haunted-cars-in-irmas-path-get-a-temporary-battery-life-boost/

That’s just one of the many rent-a-features that Tesla drivers have to shell out for. You don’t own your car at all: when you sell it as a used vehicle, Tesla strips out these features you paid for and makes the next driver pay again, reducing the value of your used car and transfering it to Tesla’s shareholders:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21127243/tesla-model-s-autopilot-disabled-remotely-used-car-update

To maintain this rent-extraction racket, Tesla uses DRM that makes it a felony to alter your own car’s software without Tesla’s permission. This is the root of all autoenshittification:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

This is technofeudalism. Whereas capitalists seek profits (income from selling things), feudalists seek rents (income from owning the things other people use). If Telsa were a capitalist enterprise, then entrepreneurs could enter the market and sell mods that let you unlock the functionality in your own car:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/11/1-in-3/#boost-50

But because Tesla is a feudal enterprise, capitalists must first secure permission from the fief, Elon Musk, who decides which companies are allowed to compete with him, and how.

Once a company owns the right to decide which software you can run, there’s no limit to the ways it can extract rent from you. Blocking you from changing your device’s software lets a company run overt scams on you. For example, they can block you from getting your car independently repaired with third-party parts.

But they can also screw you in sneaky ways. Once a device has DRM on it, Section 1201 of the DMCA makes it a felony to bypass that DRM, even for legitimate purposes. That means that your DRM-locked device can spy on you, and because no one is allowed to explore how that surveillance works, the manufacturer can be incredibly sloppy with all the personal info they gather:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/29/tesla-model-3-keeps-data-like-crash-videos-location-phone-contacts.html

All kinds of hidden anti-features can lurk in your DRM-locked car, protected from discovery, analysis and criticism by the illegality of bypassing the DRM. For example, Teslas have a hidden feature that lets them lock out their owners and summon a repo man to drive them away if you have a dispute about a late payment:

https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotely-unlocks-model-3-owners-car-uses-smart-summon-to-help-repo-agent/

DRM is a gun on the mantlepiece in Act I, and by Act III, it goes off, revealing some kind of ugly and often dangerous scam. Remember Dieselgate? Volkswagen created a line of demon-haunted cars: if they thought they were being scrutinized (by regulators measuring their emissions), they switched into a mode that traded performance for low emissions. But when they believed themselves to be unobserved, they reversed this, emitting deadly levels of NOX but delivering superior mileage.

The conversion of the VW diesel fleet into mobile gas-chambers wouldn’t have been possible without DRM. DRM adds a layer of serious criminal jeopardy to anyone attempting to reverse-engineer and study any device, from a phone to a car. DRM let Apple claim to be a champion of its users’ privacy even as it spied on them from asshole to appetite:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

Now, Tesla is having its own Dieselgate scandal. A stunning investigation by Steve Stecklow and Norihiko Shirouzu for Reuters reveals how Tesla was able to create its own demon-haunted car, which systematically deceived drivers about its driving range, and the increasingly desperate measures the company turned to as customers discovered the ruse:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

The root of the deception is very simple: Tesla mis-sells its cars by falsely claiming ranges that those cars can’t attain. Every person who ever bought a Tesla was defrauded.

But this fraud would be easy to detect. If you bought a Tesla rated for 353 miles on a charge, but the dashboard range predictor told you that your fully charged car could only go 150 miles, you’d immediately figure something was up. So your Telsa tells another lie: the range predictor tells you that you can go 353 miles.

But again, if the car continued to tell you it has 203 miles of range when it was about to run out of charge, you’d figure something was up pretty quick — like, the first time your car ran out of battery while the dashboard cheerily informed you that you had 203 miles of range left.

So Teslas tell a third lie: when the battery charge reached about 50%, the fake range is replaced with the real one. That way, drivers aren’t getting mass-stranded by the roadside, and the scam can continue.

But there’s a new problem: drivers whose cars are rated for 353 miles but can’t go anything like that far on a full charge naturally assume that something is wrong with their cars, so they start calling Tesla service and asking to have the car checked over.

This creates a problem for Tesla: those service calls can cost the company $1,000, and of course, there’s nothing wrong with the car. It’s performing exactly as designed. So Tesla created its boldest fraud yet: a boiler-room full of anti-salespeople charged with convincing people that their cars weren’t broken.

This new unit — the “diversion team” — was headquartered in a Nevada satellite office, which was equipped with a metal xylophone that would be rung in triumph every time a Tesla owner was successfully conned into thinking that their car wasn’t defrauding them.

When a Tesla owner called this boiler room, the diverter would run remote diagnostics on their car, then pronounce it fine, and chide the driver for having energy-hungry driving habits (shades of Steve Jobs’s “You’re holding it wrong”):

https://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-holding-it-wrong/

The drivers who called the Diversion Team weren’t just lied to, they were also punished. The Tesla app was silently altered so that anyone who filed a complaint about their car’s range was no longer able to book a service appointment for any reason. If their car malfunctioned, they’d have to request a callback, which could take several days.

Meanwhile, the diverters on the diversion team were instructed not to inform drivers if the remote diagnostics they performed detected any other defects in the cars.

The diversion team had a 750 complaint/week quota: to juke this stat, diverters would close the case for any driver who failed to answer the phone when they were eventually called back. The center received 2,000+ calls every week. Diverters were ordered to keep calls to five minutes or less.

Eventually, diverters were ordered to cease performing any remote diagnostics on drivers’ cars: a source told Reuters that “Thousands of customers were told there is nothing wrong with their car” without any diagnostics being performed.

Predicting EV range is an inexact science as many factors can affect battery life, notably whether a journey is uphill or downhill. Every EV automaker has to come up with a figure that represents some kind of best guess under a mix of conditions. But while other manufacturers err on the side of caution, Tesla has the most inaccurate mileage estimates in the industry, double the industry average.

Other countries’ regulators have taken note. In Korea, Tesla was fined millions and Elon Musk was personally required to state that he had deceived Tesla buyers. The Korean regulator found that the true range of Teslas under normal winter conditions was less than half of the claimed range.

Now, many companies have been run by malignant narcissists who lied compulsively — think of Thomas Edison, archnemesis of Nikola Tesla himself. The difference here isn’t merely that Musk is a deeply unfit monster of a human being — but rather, that DRM allows him to defraud his customers behind a state-enforced opaque veil. The digital computers at the heart of a Tesla aren’t just demons haunting the car, changing its performance based on whether it believes it is being observed — they also allow Musk to invoke the power of the US government to felonize anyone who tries to peer into the black box where he commits his frauds.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

This Sunday (July 30) at 1530h, I’m appearing on a panel at Midsummer Scream in Long Beach, CA, to discuss the wonderful, award-winning “Ghost Post” Haunted Mansion project I worked on for Disney Imagineering.

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Tesla 2023 Shareholder Meeting: What You Need to Know

Tesla held its 2023 annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Among other things, shareholders voted to approve a proposal to increase the number of authorized shares of Tesla common stock, a proposal to appoint JB Straubel to the company's board of directors, and a proposal to approve Tesla's executive compensation plan. CEO Elon Musk also took the opportunity to address shareholders, discussing the company's progress on its production goals, its plans for the future, and the current state of the global economy. The key highlights from the meeting: Shareholders approved a proposal to increase the number of authorized shares of Tesla common stock from 2 billion to 2.6 billion. This will allow Tesla to raise additional capital in the future if needed. Shareholders approved a proposal to appoint JB Straubel to the company's board of directors. Straubel is a co-founder of Tesla and served as its chief technology officer until 2019. He is currently the CEO of Redwood Materials, a company that recycles lithium-ion batteries. Shareholders approved Tesla's executive compensation plan. The plan includes a base salary and stock options for Tesla's executives. The stock options are performance-based, meaning that they will only vest if Tesla meets certain financial targets. In his address to shareholders, Musk discussed the company's progress on its production goals. He said that Tesla is on track to produce 1.5 million vehicles in 2023, up from 936,000 vehicles in 2022. He also said that Tesla is working on a new factory in Austin, Texas, and that it plans to open a new factory in Berlin later this year. Musk also discussed the company's plans for the future. He said that Tesla is working on a new electric pickup truck, the Cybertruck, and that it is also developing a new self-driving car. He said that Tesla is committed to making electric vehicles more affordable and accessible, and that he believes that electric vehicles will eventually replace gasoline-powered vehicles. Musk also addressed the current state of the global economy. He said that the economy is facing a number of challenges, including inflation and supply chain disruptions. However, he said that he is confident that Tesla will be able to weather these challenges and continue to grow. Overall, the Tesla 2023 shareholder meeting was a positive event for the company. Shareholders approved a number of key proposals, and Musk provided an update on the company's progress and plans for the future. Read the full article

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To say I'm excited for the tesla shareholder vote is an understatement, I genuinely want to see if Elons cult has enough sway to get him the $50 billion in stocks he wants, or see him get pissy when they don't and he has to come up with another scheme to make money to pay back the loans borrowed for the twitter buyout. Either way this will be a big day for psychoanalysis

[nando161mando]

So, funny story: remember how that Stanford professor described last years' layoffs as a "social contagion" exercise, where CEOs were just doing it because everyone else was doing it?

Well everyone get your surprised face ready but it was in fact a coordinated effort by execs, large shareholders and hedge funds to cover up mismanagement and suppress wages:

Did I say funny, I meant awful, typo sorry those keys are right next to each other.

[allthegeopolitics]

Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks that it has shipped to date, due to a problem where the accelerator pedal can get stuck, putting drivers at risk of a crash, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The recall caps a tumultuous week for Tesla. The company laid off more than 10% of its workforce on Monday, and lost two of its highest-ranking executives. A few days later, Tesla asked shareholders to re-vote on CEO Elon Musk’s massive compensation package that was struck down by a judge earlier this year.

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[liberalsarecool]

Sabotaging Twitter. Sabotaging Tesla.

Tesla shareholders vs Elon. 🤡