• bean
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    714 hours ago

    ‘Despite’ Musk’s support…

    To SPITE Musk’s idiocy.

    • @[email protected]
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      2223 hours ago

      For profit company is usually not ran as democracy, so employees don’t really choose the CEO, it is the other way around.

      • @[email protected]
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        2021 hours ago

        It’s funny because the US is usually like “rah rah democracy!!” but also loves private corporations, which are extremely authoritarian.

        • @[email protected]
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          720 hours ago

          America was founded by a tobacco company. The Virginia Company had the first successful settlement. And then some obnoxious cultists got kicked out of England joined them.

        • @[email protected]
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          Comparing employees to citizens is absurd.

          • Citizens pay taxes and receive services
          • Employees provide services and receive money.

          The more apt comparison is voting citizens compared to shareholders. They too get a vote.

          • @[email protected]
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            620 hours ago

            That’s not the point. The point is people spend most of their day under an authoritarian regime. Taxes and services are irrelevant to this.

      • @[email protected]
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        220 hours ago

        Employees can buy stock (and are usually given stock as an incentive). Employees can also unionize and go on strike. When you have poor leadership, employees also leave for other jobs.

        Most Tesla stock is held by institutional investors. It amazes me they haven’t demanded Elon move on.

    • Optional
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      1524 hours ago

      They won’t get far because of the sycophantic boards.

  • @[email protected]
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    691 day ago

    Anecdotally, the few folks I know at these companies all think Elon Musk is a clown and do everything they can to keep their projects away from him.

    • FuglyDuck
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      481 day ago

      You want to see what a project looks like after Musk gets his hands on it?

      Cybertruck. that was his baby.

        • FuglyDuck
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          722 hours ago

          Pretty sure his inspiration was from the cars in Total Recall. You know the weird flick where Arnie goes to mars and gets his brain scrambled and re-scrambled?

          Also note he’s in on Neuralink.

  • Snot Flickerman
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    While I know we all love dunking on the dipshit Musk… the data from Open Secrets isn’t exactly compelling that these people deeply materially support Harris over Trump. So they’ve spent a bit more donating to Harris… the amounts are honestly a drop in the bucket compared to the full budgets of these campaigns and I’m like 90% sure that a number of them are donating to SuperPACs instead so they can donate beyond their max individual contribution. So, personal opinion, misleading and not necessarily indicative of anything at all, as much as I would love to guffaw and point to it as more evidence that Musk is out of touch with even his own workforce.

  • @[email protected]
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    924 hours ago

    1 party believes in science and 1 party believes in nonsense. Guess who the scientists support?