What really gets me is how Elon Musk acts like American workers should be eagerly embracing the opportunity to Compete with the entire world, i.e. work harder and harder under worse and worse conditions for less and less pay. "If you don't view this as an exciting new Opportunity, you're a racist loser!" is his explicit message.

As if Elon himself relishes the Challenge of hiring more American workers, or training fresh talent, or paying people more for less work. That kind of increased Competition doesn't seem to be nearly as desirable for some reason. Not only does he make use of these extremely faggy Shaming tactics, he's also a giant hypocrite.

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This is how you know the difference between people who's morality is 100% pragmatic, and who's morality is based on universal principles.

And also, why I understand Elon 100 times more, then Thunderfoot ever will. Elon might be briliant and hard working. But he is completely self-centered. That means, that he is fighting the woke ONLY, because it did ruin his personal life a great deal. On the other hand, free speech???? Fighting for the good life of his employees? :omegalul:

Just look at this clip. He cannot even accept the concept of people being happy while working. youtube.com/watch?v=6pLLVqqF8V

@LukeAlmighty Oh that's fucking rich, the guy who's worth US$439 billion appealing to naked envy and talking about how "unfair" it is that some people get to work from home, when others don't - Elon is SO concerned about Equality, you see.

This is an ACTUAL variant of this fake and gay leftist meme:
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I have never before agreed with a leftie meme this much, but in this case, you are right on the money.

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Same. And I've been working remote for a few years. There are honestly times when I do miss some things about the office. With my co-workers all across the ocean and having 8am meetings, it makes co-location spaces really impractical too. It's also interesting how companies are saving money on facilities and those costs are now included by the remote worker out of their paycheck.

But Musk is a single man whose entire value is getting other people to do what he wants. His visions are dependent on other people believing in it. And there is some value to that. He and others like him were born into wealth, but there are others born into that prosperity that cannot generate another generation of wealth. So there's something to that, but at the same time ... dude wouldn't know the first thing about building a fuel transfer system for a rocket. I doubt he'd be able to really learn it either.
@djsumdog @ChristiJunior @LukeAlmighty Elon Musk really has the Steve Jobs grindset going, mixed in with some techbro 'ism.

Steve Jobs was infamously similar, and so was the 2000s VW CEO. They wanted something to happen, they would make it happen, and they didn't care about the cost of it. You would help it happen. I heard that the reason multitouch displays boomed was Steve Jobs was against the resistive touch "stylus" screens of the 00s and wanted to have a natural touchscreen at any cost.

You could say the same at how Tesla made EVs big, combined with the diesel scandals of the mid 2010s making countries and politicans bet on it. He was the idea guy, but he had the money and could recruit people to "make it happen" including people who were in his cult of personality.
@Coyote @ChristiJunior @djsumdog @LukeAlmighty Well that's why Steve Jobs did what he did even if half his ideas were genuinely stupid.

Steve Jobs had an aversion to color in his computers until the market forces told him you need color. Ditto with active cooling.

@PurpCat @ChristiJunior @djsumdog @LukeAlmighty The phenotype's tendency to stick with strange and stupid ideas is why when they're successful they are super successful; they're high risk, high reward personified.

@Coyote @ChristiJunior @djsumdog @LukeAlmighty The VW CEO of the 00s was also famous for this.

V10 diesel SUVs that needed an engine drop to change an alternator? Cars that didn't have DEF tanks and ended up both failing emission tests and killing the DPFs? Having multiple high-end vanity brands like Bugatti, Bentley, Porsche, and Lambo under one roof? The W8 Passat and making a luxury car under the VW brand? The high-mpg XL1 that was a low production car?

So much of this shit was vanity project related or just engineering dick flexing, but it was unsustainable and the next CEO would end up with his problems and boy were they huge. Now VW is just German Nissan, especially as they go all in on the EV fad and sales are low. They literally had a high-profile union threatening to strike, only deciding to only cut 35,000 employees in the end to avoid one.

https://www.electrive.com/2024/10/11/vw-electric-deliveries-down-by-ten-per-cent/
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/vw-union-agree-cut-35000-jobs-germany-avert-strikes-2024-12-20/
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