what avantage is there over paying $250k/yr for two employees to work 8 hour days?
To be fair to the Muskinator, salary is not the sole cost of employing someone. The benefits an employer has to pay for a salaried employee in the US ain't cheap. And the Chief Twit is requiring everyone to return to the office, so rent, physical-plant, and other office-related costs will rise in proportion to the number of employees.
There's also a risk trade-off – two "moving parts" rather than one, to put it crudely – but on the other hand you also have a certain amount of redundancy with more employees, so I think that balances out under reasonable threat models.
It does seem like Musk could take this plan to its obvious conclusion and fire everyone except himself, and then pay himself 100% of Twitter's net profits. It'd probably work as well as his current strategy.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
