That reminds me of an article from back in the late 90's or early 00's about how much of the money he did make came from other people using him basically. They would talk him into projects and make him think it was his idea. He was such an easy mark and now we are starting to see it. Simply making fun of him will cause him to double down, major ass kissing will make him like you.
It makes more and more sense that he failed to keep a casino afloat.
I believe the term is pulling an Elon
The problem with all of those in Trump's circle, they all are good at destruction while having absolutely no real talent in business. Aside from providing funding, Elon has in no way brought any sort of business skill to grow his companies.
He lost money because he showed he is a Nazi and had no plan for how to actually take advantage of taking out regulators beyond the idea he has no rules anymore.
The word you're looking for is "context."
US News puts the average cost to be $300k. So yeah, a bit off.
Except that RSU typically require vesting, are often not liquid enough to be useful as wages and aren't as beneficial if the company isn't going to skyrocket and be sold off.
The issue I ran into was that my team of 3 directly generated $25M in new areas of growth in a single year causing our company to have an increase of 12% gain in our profit margin. With RSU and profit sharing I saw a two hundred dollars worth of income increase that year. The next two years the industry flopped, profits were down in all areas except my team, and we started a three year pay freeze. I did my job amazing and rather than just paying me better I had to go down with the ship.
This caused me to leave along with my two coworkers. The company couldn't replace us and ended up scrapping our division losing out on that business.
One thing you will eventually find out is there is a good portion of the company who thinks they are an effective employee when they really aren't. For example I work in Software and Hardware development. In 25 years I've worked in large companies and small, big teams, small teams and teams of one. I've had many project managers and in almost all cases they have ranged from bad to pointless. The well oiled teams found the project managers only got in the way and provided no ROI to their work. So much so that in one org the PM left and they never replaced them which resulted in the teams highest productive quarters two years running.
If we were to vote I'd ask for justification for those roles and what their returns are. What actual added benefit did they bring and what problems did they cause. The issue i foresee is that every single one of them would say they were very valuable and important. But if you asked the people under them doing the actual development you'd hear the exact opposite. With the pandemic and everyone working remotely you'd think their role would become even more important but a lot of places have shown that haven't.
The thing is, for some, logic itself becomes a threat.
THIS is exactly why religion is dangerous. When one starts to have questions about logic and rational thinking it bleeds out into the rest of their lives. This generates antagonistic behavior towards science, medicine, and education. The push back on the threat, and the support to do so within the community is so subtle in the beginning that it doesn't seem absurd from those in religion.
For many Romans it was less effort than Roman gods required. There were some other benefits but really it was Constantine that got Christianity from a million followers to the dominant religion of the Mediterranean and Europe. Then shortly after that the church got power hungry and the really bad stuff started happening and no one on the outside was safe. About 400 years give or take.
That is a modern scenario where picking one's religion may not result in death. Go back just a little over 100 years and you're going to run into relgion not being an option one gets to make their own decisions about.
i switched when phones dropped the jack but just recently went USB to 3.5mm. Sadly both are crap.
Honestly I'm going to look into a media device again.