The buyout offer that just went out to millions of US federal workers has the subject line, “Fork in the Road,” which is the same subject line Musk used when he gave his “extremely hardcore” ultimatum to Twitter employees in 2022. While it’s unclear if he was involved in the creation of this new email, Musk himself seems to at least be in on the reference.
[Link: Fork in the Road | https://www.opm.gov/fork | opm.gov]
Except the US government doesn’t have stock options to offer in lieu of salary.
They sort of do, just under a different name: Government Bonds
No, bonds are a distinctly different asset class, specifically, with a fixed rate of return and maturity period.