I fully understand your point. Just a couple more thoughts. Again, I'm not disagreeing with your stance or trying to sway you...just trying to figure out the basic facts.
1) For Elon's compensation package, doesn't he actually pay Tesla? Maybe there's a work-around, but I thought he effectively gains options and has to give Tesla "cash" and then receives the discounted shares. I wouldn't even know where to figure out how to find the right figures to do the math, but I *think* that even if the company also owes the government some payroll taxes, I think Elon's effective payment to Tesla is larger. If I remember correctly, as each tranch became "likely" to pay out, Tesla already noted it as an obligation in their finances anyway, so even the "book-keeping" end of things already has it accounted for. OF COURSE, there is also the dilution of everybody else's shares....and that is a meaningful cost to shareholders.
2) Regarding the lawers: I also don't want to see them get even one cent for their dishonest work in cooperation with some guy that held 9 shares. But, *IF* they get a pay-out, I hope it comes with strings similar to Elon's -- if anything, the Lawyers should just get the right to purchase options, so they'll have to pay Tesla some discounted rate for shares...and have a number of years that they'll have to hold the shares too. For example, if the lawyers are to gain 4 billion dollars worth of shares, they'll have to pay Tesla 1 billion dollars to do it....and then hold the shares for 5 years before they can think about selling.