@"medaille" said:
It is what it is.
When you are desperate, you’ll submit yourself to worse working
conditions. The 996 schedule isn’t a
musk thing, but a China thing and it’s one of the selling factors to
businessmen. We have a lot of
regulations that have improved our standard of living (and also a lot of
regulations designed to suppress businesses).
These drive up costs. It’s
important for our government to impose the same standards on products that are
imported as are manufactured here. If we
value a regulation enough to have it here, we should value it enough to have it
everywhere. We need to have a system of
tariffs that level the playing fields between countries that care less about
their people and the earth as they import into countries that care more.
This is a governmental problem, not a single person
problem. Obviously people shouldn’t
produce goods in these countries, but they’ve shown time and again that profits
are the driving factor, and we as a society need to remove the profit motive.
Secondarily, there’s a pretty big motivation difference
between an employee and owner in terms of how much they’re willing to work
because of how much is at stake. The
issue has less to do with employees being less motivated, but more to do with
we need to make it much easier for people to become owners. We’ve been put within an employee framework
through schooling, where we were trained to work for other people, and it’s hard
to see outside that box, but we need to work together to become owners of the
work and equipment that are in our daily life.
That is all true but it has also been talked about for the last 40 years since Buy American. Then all the American companies moved oversees for cheap labor, lower taxes, and less worker protections all for the investors (ha!). You mention remove the profit motive but again how...we are an uber capitalistic economy where big business/corporations literally own our government officials. The trend in this country is more advantages for Corporate not less. The small business people think they are part of this pro corporate/capitalistic band of brothers and the corporate world only cares about 1 thing - making more money at all cost because the faceless investor demands it. Greed is part of human nature and any unchecked economic system is bound to swing wealth to the very few. The workers and small business owners be damned. Elon wants American workers to be like the Chinese workers again cheap labor, no protections, long hours etc...talk about a step back into the 1900's before regulations and unions.
Lastly, not everyone is capable or should be an owner.
(Disclaimer - I love my Tesla but that doesn't mean I agree with everything Musk says and does
He is a great mind but I would never want to work with him, he is a douchebag.
