A little context

The notion of getting that sack of skin one trillion dollars as some kind of fair compensation to run Tesla is one of the most laughably absurd things I've ever heard. 

Among other things, they want to "keep him from leaving" to which I say that they should instead have a vote to make him leave. 

He's a tool and manages to ruin so much around him. 

But anyway, a trillion dollars. Thats a 1 with 12 zeros behind it. 

A quick bit of math says that you could randomly pick 50 million people from the phone book (that's roughly 15% of the population by the way) and issue them a check for $20,000. Which would be life changing for most of them. And have spent the same amount. 

Instead of giving it to one jackhole that seems like a better use of the money. 

But what do I know?