He and Twitter agreed to structure the buyout of his firm as income for tax reasons so even if he didn't do a single ounce of work for twitter his entire tenure it would have been money well spent for no other reason than the time value of money. Common sense and reading between the lines a bit it seems like his contract stipulates that Twitter now owes a lump sum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haraldur_Ingi_%C3%9Eorleifsson
I expect most people will infer the wrong thing here. To be clear, those "tax reasons" were that he wanted to maximize the amount of tax he would pay.
> an agreement between him and Twitter, most of the purchase price was paid as salary to maximize the tax he would pay for the sale in Iceland, he chose to pay for tax out of respect to Iceland for the disability benefits he received. Per the agreement, he paid the second highest tax of an individual in Iceland in 2021.
> for these groups of people Elon is tied to their identity and he can do no wrong
I'm not an Elon fanboy and I'm not familiar with these events. But it seems like paying someone who isn't working isn't a great use of money. It seems reasonable to end an arrangement like that. Was that really what happened?