Tesla's board has proposed an unprecedented pay package for its CEO Elon Musk: around $1 trillion worth of shares, Bloomberg reports.

It's a major escalation in the firm's increasingly desperate attempts to encourage its highly divisive leader to stick around and stay attentive. That's despite Tesla's core business imploding over the past year, largely the result of Musk's alienating behavior and surging international competition.

"Simply put, retaining and incentivizing Elon is fundamental to Tesla achieving these goals and becoming the most valuable company in history," chair Robyn Denholm and director Kathleen Wilson-Thompson wrote in a shareholder letter.

However, that $1 trillion figure comes with some significant asterisks. Musk will have to work for the money, growing the flailin

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