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>> Musk's previous defiance of the health order (without all these super-special controls) likely -does- encourage health officials to make extra-super-sure Tes
by icelancer 6y ago
>> Musk's previous defiance of the health order (without all these super-special controls) likely -does- encourage health officials to make extra-super-sure Tesla is in compliance, though.
Or it shows the governor and government officials that he is being serious about taking his ball and leaving the state.
- BEEdwards 6y agoSo we DO negotiate with terrorists when it's economic...
- errantmind 6y agoTerrorists? I don't think that word means what you think it means
- lostmsu 6y agoWhat will happen to the workers who defy the reopening? If they will be fired, that is terror.
- errantmind 6y agoWord choice is important to communicate your thoughts: "terrorism is the use of intentional violence for political or religious purposes"
- Gibbon1 6y agoIs the Cult of Musk not a religion?
- buzzerbetrayed 6y agoUm... no? Do words have no meaning anymore?
- Gibbon1 6y agoI'm from California, Musk and his followers seem REALLY culty to me.
- lostmsu 6y agoTrue. And I am glad, that I did correctly use the word "terror", which you managed to misread somehow, and then blame me for your own mistake.
- resonantjacket5 6y agoAre you taking everyone on ycombinator to be a fool. The previous comment talked about 'terrorism' so when you use the word 'terror' it's connected to have the same meaning.
- lostmsu 6y agoThe top comment explicitly said "economic terrorism". Did you have trouble understanding the meaning of that?
- cameronbrown 6y agoFiring an employee is not violence.
- lostmsu 6y agoTerror does not require violence. It is silencing political opponents by abuse of power assymetry.
- cameronbrown 6y agoWrong. The definition of terror is using violence to advance political goals.
- lostmsu 6y agoWikipedia disagrees: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_(politics) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_(politics)
- dmitrygr 6y agoHis employees have families here, kids in schools, hobbies. He can leave, so can his ball, his employees likely will just get themselves some shiny new netflix/twitter/facebook/google badges and move on
- tenpies 6y agoYou think Musk cares about his employees? For starters he's talking about the factory. 99% of people working there aren't even Tesla employees, they're hired out contractors. He can fire them all with almost no financial consequences and activate his online troll army to attack anyone that dares say bad things about him. Maybe he throws in some crazy tweets so the media is distracted and doesn't report on it - sort of how the media has been mum to point out the huge bonus this CEO just earned in the middle of a great recession because "OMG Musk named his baby what?" and "OMG MUSK LISTED TWO HOUSES". As for the handful of Tesla employees that can't move, he can just leave them there in an office. Tesla's turnover is comically high, so within two years there would probably be no employees left and the office can be closed.
- kortilla 6y ago>netflix/twitter/facebook/google Those companies don’t manufacture shit and would not have any use for people trained in car assembly.