This is absolute bullshit and not at all how it works, now or back in the 1980s.
Nah, it's absolutely how it has worked since the 1980s. You've never owned the game, just the physical hardware it's on and a license to use the game. Go read any manual or back of the box or actual cartridge or disc.
They were absurd milestones at the time, which nobody thought he could hit in his wildest dreams.
Musk has never met a milestone once
Apart from all the ones that he has, like his last mega paypacket at tesla, you mean?
I think that Tesla can probably get a more-effective CEO for less money, personally.
Musk takes $0 pay as CEO other than these post-performance-goal-hit pay packets though. Good luck finding another CEO who will work for free for 5+ years.
And Musk is an expert in dreaming big and make other people believe it.
And has a near flawless record in achieving those dreams, making the people who believed in it filthy rich.
This pay packet is, like his last one, a "bet big on me and I'll make you all insanely rich, or I get nothing" bet. It makes no sense why anyone would say no to it.
Still insanely, insanely high though.
But undeniably worth it if you're a tesla shareholder.
It's like your financial adviser saying "I'll make you a billionaire in 5 years, and if I do your bill will be $1mil. If I don't, don't pay me anything, and you've lost nothing" - why would anyone have an issue with that?
How could one guy get paid more than the whole company ever made?
Because that $1trillion pay packet is contingent on the value of Tesla going to like $5tril, which would make it the biggest company in the history of the world. It would make every shareholder insanely rich.
Government uses government website. More at 8.
A broken clock is right twice a day.
This is like right clicking on a website and going view source and then pretending like they forgot to hide their code. It's a complete nothing.
So if the developers of a game go bankrupt, or a single developer of an indie game dies, what do you suggest happens?