If rewarded accordingly I agree. But the fact he could get a HUGE payout if certain milestones are met and has the nerve to not only ask for volunteers but now for programmers to fix his issues for free is ridiculous. Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/21/elon-musk-could-earn-55-bill...

How is this different from any other situation where an employee contributes to the company and the CEO benefits from their results?

The pay disparity between workers and executives is important and worth discussing, but what makes this particular example of it worth pointing out?

Well one, the employee is getting paid to do the duties their job asks for. They aren't working for free.

Tesla/Musk appears to be following the model of massive greedy billion dollar corporation that would rather take free work than appropriately compensate workers/consultants.

There is a massive difference between BEING PAID and NOT BEING PAID when asked to do work. Seeing how Musk overworks and underpays his workers I'm not surprised by this move.

Where do you get that these people aren’t being paid?

From the User you were replying to: lechiffre10

Also if only the winners are being paid, what about everyone else? They've invested just as much time and their contributions were still valued by Tesla. This isn't Glengarry Glen Ross, these are real humans.

Well where did they get it from?

As far as I can tell, this “hackathon” is being done by employees on company time, so I’m extremely confused.

Is the hackathon not during work hours?

When you've taken $20B in funding that's a false dichotomy.