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I blame the two guys who told Musk that he should buy and run Twitter, thus distracting him from Tesla.

But seriously, Tesla doesn't rely on advertising because Musk himself provides so much marketing. That's a reason why he should be paid as much as any other car maker's ad expense - if his marketing were not now a negative to car sales. Given that, what should his compensation be? Tesla needs someone to pitch how much cheaper electricity is than gasoline. They need someone to guide new EV consumers to products for in-home charging stations, batteries, and garage top PV's. They need to pitch 'Never again pay for gasoline, or even for EV charging.' And they need someone to pitch to the government the need for a better electrical grid.

But Musk can't pitch any of those because he's pitching Tesla's unsustainable stock price, because he's pitching neo-fascist conspiracy theories, and because he can't personally handle success.

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Musjk was already distracting himself on other technology projects before the Twitter acquisition. Twitter just brought out the his craziness. I just think he gets bored to the day to day work of running a business.

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