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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] trafficnab 10 points 1 month 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 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 month ago

As a former dumb kid this tracks