The Washington Post has been hemorrhaging money and readers for years.
So naturally they decided to attack the most successful entrepreneur on the planet.
And the Washington Post exposed its hatred of success with this nasty Elon Musk hit piece.
Washington Post publishes unhinged attack on Musk's compensation
Tesla shareholders just approved a pay package that could make Elon Musk a trillion dollars over ten years.
Over 75 percent of voting shareholders said yes to the deal.¹
The Washington Post responded by publishing a 14-line piece comparing Musk's potential earnings to the combined salaries of every elementary school teacher in America.
That's right.
The same newspaper that Jeff Bezos bought for $250 million and has watched lose money ever since decided to lecture everyone about fair compensation.
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The Post's big revelation?
Musk's average annual payout of $100 billion would be "$3 billion more than combined salaries of America's 1.4 million elementary school teachers."²
They also breathlessly reported that Musk would out-earn all 3.2 million cashiers in America and all 917,000 human resources specialists.³
Human resources specialists.
Because apparently that's supposed to make you angry too.
The Post's class warfare math doesn't add up
Here's what the Washington Post conveniently left out of their outrage piece.
Musk only gets paid if he delivers.
The pay package requires Tesla to hit a market capitalization of $8.5 trillion and meet operational milestones including delivering 20 million vehicles, 1 million robots, and 1 million robotaxis over the next decade.⁴
Tesla's current market cap sits around $1.5 trillion.
Musk has to grow the company more than five-fold to see his full payout.
If he fails, he gets nothing.
Meanwhile, those teachers the Post is so worried about collect paychecks whether their students can read or not.
They're shielded by unions that fight tooth and nail against any accountability measures.
They get summers off and retire with defined-benefit pensions that would make most Americans weep with envy.
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The Post conveniently forgot to mention that teaching certificates aren't exactly rare commodities.
Millions of Americans could qualify for those jobs.
But there's exactly one person on Earth who simultaneously runs an electric car company, a rocket company, a social media platform, an AI startup, a brain-computer interface company, and a tunneling venture.
There's one guy who figured out how to land rockets on drone ships and catch them with giant mechanical arms.
Comparing that to the guy who scans your groceries is journalistic malpractice.
The real agenda behind the attack
The Washington Post didn't publish this piece because they care about teachers or cashiers.
They published it because Musk committed the cardinal sin of leaving the liberal plantation.
He endorsed Trump.
He exposed Twitter's censorship of conservatives. He purchased their competitor and turned it into a free speech platform.
The same media that celebrated Musk as a climate hero when he was building electric cars now treats him like a supervillain because he questions their narratives.
Even Breitbart's John Nolte pointed out the absurdity: "If the Washington Post were to report that Elon Musk will make more than every middle-aged wise guy who shit-posts online, that would sound about right to me."⁵
That's the difference between understanding how markets work and the Post's socialist worldview.
Free markets reward scarcity.
The guy who can do what nobody else can do gets paid accordingly.
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The surgeon who performs procedures nobody else can perform makes more than the nurse.
The quarterback who can read defenses and throw dimes under pressure makes more than the lineman.
The entrepreneur who can revolutionize multiple industries simultaneously gets whatever investors are willing to pay him.
Musk doesn't have tenure. He doesn't have a union. He doesn't get paid if he fails.
That's how it works when you're accountable to shareholders instead of bureaucrats.
The Tesla board laid it out plainly in their filing: "In 2018, Elon had to grow Tesla by billions; in 2025, he has to grow Tesla by trillions."⁶
The Post's two-byline team managed to write 14 lines of pure class warfare propaganda while ignoring every single one of those facts.
That tells you everything you need to know about what's really driving this story.
It's not about fairness.
It's about punishing success.
¹ NBC News, "Tesla shareholders approve $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk," NBCNews.com, November 6, 2025.
² Washington Post, "Musk's pay plan sets him up to make more than some entire occupations," WashingtonPost.com, November 18, 2025.
³ Ibid.
⁴ CNBC, "Tesla says shareholders approve Musk's $1 trillion pay plan with over 75% voting in favor," CNBC.com, November 6, 2025.
⁵ John Nolte, "Nolte: WaPo Whines that One-of-a-Kind Elon Musk Makes More Than Every Grade School Teacher Combined," Breitbart.com, November 18, 2025.
⁶ Fortune, "'Yes, you read that correctly': Tesla pay committee pitches $1 trillion pact to keep Elon Musk as CEO for long term," Fortune.com, September 8, 2025.
