In the dozen or so articles I've read on TSLA factory conditions and manufacturing culture, I think to describe it as a "mistake" is a gross mischaracterization

In the dozen or so articles I've read on TSLA factory conditions and manufacturing culture, I think to describe it as a "mistake" is a gross mischaracterization. Elon himself has said, to stay alive they have had to push harder than imaginable. He tries to put himself in the center of it -- work the longest hours, face the worst of the conditions. Which is admirable but still a glaring symptom. Elon is the king at the head of the charge. But it's still a bloody charge all the same.