Musk and Discovery
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Since when does criticism equate to surprise? I'm not the least bit surprised that a trust fund billionaire behaves this way, but that doesn't mean it's not worthy of criticism when he does it.
I tried hinting at it to you before, but now I'll just flat out say, let's leave the binary American political party discussion at the door, since not all Americans subscribe to it, foreign members have different definitions for some of those terms and political stances, and Elon himself has been all over the place politically.
Criticize or compliment the man and his individual stances or comments, but leave the generalizing about the party affiliations of his critics here and elsewhere behind.
Are you intentionally obtuse?
Not my point at all, but hey ho ho ho.
*cough* bullshit *cough* *cough*
Is he a sociopath? yes. Is he ass? Yes. Does he have a crappy work ethic that overworks his people? Yep.
Did he revolutionize electric vehicles? Yes, Did he make the first reusable ( 1st stage) rocke? Yes. Is he making the most powerful rocket now? Yes, Is he making a lunar vehcile? Yes, Is he going to go to Mars? More than likely.
Was Edison an Sociopath, Ass?? YES. Yet we still remember him. Did no one like Tesla? Yes.
Plenty of assholes in history that we remember.
Its what they do, not some personal proclivities that get you remembered.
Did he revolutionize electric vehicles? Yes, Did he make the first reusable ( 1st stage) rocke? Yes. Is he making the most powerful rocket now? Yes, Is he making a lunar vehcile? Yes, Is he going to go to Mars? More than likely.
Was Edison an Sociopath, Ass?? YES. Yet we still remember him. Did no one like Tesla? Yes.
Plenty of assholes in history that we remember.
Its what they do, not some personal proclivities that get you remembered.
I don't even know if he has a party affiliation. But, I think I was just stating the obvious, so no need to say mush else there.
Are you still beating your wife?
[Checks forum location] - Yep! Still in the DSC sub-forum. Just checking. I forgot where I was for a minute...
Indeed, the volume of resignations indicates that Musk has been underpaying his workers in relation to what he's been expecting of them.
ETA: Never mind. Malcom Reynolds talking about everyone who has a statue of them built is sum kinda sonabitch or something.
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Or, they've been over paid and not very productive, and now don't want to work for that same pay.
I'll wait for you to edit yours.
He should be the ship's doctor.
Not very productive employees built a company worth, in the judgment of the world's richest man, $44B? Lulz.
it's not a pleasant job market right right now for people in the tech field. many applicants looking for the same job. Your devotion to the man is, I suppose, touching in some sort of way I'm not capable of feeling at the moment. Probably a matter of glands, but the point is, no one would have left those jobs if they had been able hang in there. These employees were being asked to suddenly work ridiculous hours, sacrifice their personal lives while under the constant threat of firing.
Sounds great. You seem talented. You should apply.
They that remain, are probably getting the same pay packet preElon, but their responsibilities have doubled or tripled after Elon fired half the staff. I doubt Elon assigned extra work, since we know that he had no idea what most of the people he fired did, so the people being over worked have taken that responsibility upon themselves, because Elon is incompetent, and those that quit just didn't want to do the job of 5 people for the same money.
If they didn't care, the workers would have continued only doing what they were paid to do, and the company would have died the next day, and then everyone would be out of work.
Finn, what Anthony is using is the standard response to a loaded question (at least it used to be).
You asked if he was "intentionally obtuse". If he says "yes", then he's essentially admitting to trolling by playing dumb. If he says "no", then he has admitted to being obtuse.
Now, Anthony, this doesn't totally let you off the hook. Because it's a fairly old school rhetorical device and due to its incendiary nature and the fact that not very many people are aware of it anymore (not to mention we have people from non-English speaking countries where that wasn't ever used), you have to have known that just saying that without context is liable to cause some problems.
You seem to be determined to push people's buttons in this thread, and that's consistent with the last time you were here in 2020 (with the same account). I'm not going to give you an infraction, but I would suggest you take a break from this thread and try some non-political topics for a while if you can't handle people not liking Musk.
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