‘Because you are the poors’: Curious employee wonders why Elon Musk can run multiple companies remotely but they can’t have multiple remote jobs

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Mar 2, 2025 6:00 PM EST

Hey, hey, let's all just take a deep breath, okay? There's no need to pile on the poor guy who's just wondering why he can't work multiple remote jobs like Elon Musk does multiple companies. Come on, folks, he's just asking a question. It's not an existential crisis; he's just passing through that adorable phase where all they say is "why?"—like a toddler trying to make sense of a very messy world.

Now, sweetie, let's break it down for you. Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. and billionaires can do whatever they want. Why? because, well, they're billionaires. Why? Because that's just system we all agreed to. Why? Because let's stop right there.

But when you, a regular software engineer, want to have a second remote job? Oh dear, that's a different story altogether. You see, in the real world that is not a billionaire utopia, rules apply to people. 

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  • "How come Elon Musk can be CEO of multiple companies and work remotely, but I can't work multiple remote roles for what I do?"

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  • Elon Musk is CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, Neuralink, X ai, and the boring company. Let's start with that. Now let's look at how his time must be allocated, and let's take all of his claims at face value even if they're obvious lies.
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  • First of all, he tweets like, basically nonstop. Somewhere between 25 and 75 tweets per day, on average. He never takes even one day off without a single tweet. He's also frequently
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  • replying to people, so you know he's not just signing on to post, he is actually reading other people's posts, so this is probably like 2-4 hours a day
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  • He also claims to be a top 10 player in two different games. Let's pretend he's not lying (it's obvious he is). The best players in the world play between 4 and 6 hours a day. He's doing this on
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  • two games, which means he would be spending 8-12 hours per day playing video games. There is simply no way around this, no matter how good you are, you can't cheat movement speed and time
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  • So it's already not looking good. He probably is spending ~14 hours a day doing complete unproductive bulls
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  • Then there's DOGE. He claims that it's a really job and he's "sleeping in the office". Remember he put out an ad hiring for DOGE saying it would be ultra , and also people hired wouldn't be paid?
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  • Okay so this is everything he does outside of... his main job. I literally haven't even mentioned anything he's done as a CEO. He made the same claims
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  • with Twitter when he laid people off that everyone would have to return to office and they'd have to work 12 hour days. Hmmm... how can Elon simultaneously be
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  • working at DOGE in DC, and Twitter in San Francisco...? Oh yeah. Rules for you, not him. And he's not working those 12 hour days because... well... even if he didn't sleep there's no time left in the schedule
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  • I am just a plain software engineer. I considered the idea of overemployment where I get a second remote job and just do whatever they assign me and
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  • nothing more. When I tell people this, they act like I am committing some sort of high crime by even considering it. Why?
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  • nnoltech Because you are the poors and there's different rules for the poors.
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  • But for you? No sneaking extra gigs, no playing video games at work. And generally, no peace nor quiet.

    So, don’t worry, kiddo; it’s not that you're wrong to ask—it’s just how the system is set up. Some people get to be superheroes; the rest of us just have to follow the rules and maybe dream a little less big. But hey, keep asking questions, not on company time of course.

  • hosenfeffer Elon does not do what he says. You can also pretend anything you want
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  • Short_Elevator_7024 You're not a Billionaire
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  • Dommccabe Shows the CEO role is not what they make it out to be.
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  • tkdyo Because he doesn't actually run those companies. He has other people do that. He just pokes his head in each one every once in a while to
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  • sign some papers or throw a tantrum. If he were actually doing the work, he wouldn't be able to do all the crop he does.
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  • NewSlang212 Musk is proof that it's a myth that CEOs work any harder than any other employee. How is it that he is supposedly grinding away heading multiple companies, then also has the time to take on a full time job at DOGE?
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  • The answer is that CEOs don't do sh. They hire people to do work for them and get money funneled to them. People act like these guys are geniuses or that
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  • they work harder than average when in reality they are born into wealth nepo/trust fund babies and the most privileged people on the planet.
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  • PrimaryMuscle 1306 "Rules for me, not for thee"
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  • WithdRawlies Cause you're poor.
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  • TheOtherJeff Because he has sh loads of money. And you do not.
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  • jmegaru He probably answers a few emails a day and that's all his CEO work is in those companies.
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  • Musk has entire companies under his belt, a Twitter presence more prolific than an entire news agency, and claims to be a top gamer though, that might be a stretch. The thing is, people like him get to make their own rules. He doesn’t have a boss; he’s the boss of bosses. Why? Because he said so that’s why!

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