If you offer an across-the-board buyout to 2 million people, the best have outside options and will take it; the worst have none and will stay.
Either (1) Elon Musk is an idiot, and he doesn't understand adverse selection or worse yet (2) he isn't, he does, and he wants the best gone.
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Either (1) Elon Musk is an idiot, and he doesn't understand adverse selection or worse yet (2) he isn't, he does, and he wants the best gone.
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Once this pestilence of a government is installed it will never leave, never
If Americans don’t react strongly soon your window of opportunity will slam shut on your hands,
war and death will follow
They want the loyal.
Dig into Vance, Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin:
https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas
Similar to (2) but even more depressing
In college I speculated you could explain the negative correlation between Harvard GPA and starting salary after graduation by noting that loyalty was more valuable than skill.
But this was fanciful thinking given the obvious and more venal explanations.
Also, Musk stiffed all the Twitter employees who resigned thinking they were getting a buyout
PS not actually a buyout and maybe not even legal, and also maybe a violation of data protection laws.
It is difficult to prove that you didn't send a five character email.