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“People should get off their goddamn moral high horse with the work-from-home bullshit,” he said. "They're asking everyone else to not work from home while they
by fnordian_slip 3y ago
“People should get off their goddamn moral high horse with the work-from-home bullshit,” he said. "They're asking everyone else to not work from home while they do."
This seems like a misdirection to me. The "laptop class" isn't making the decision for "normal workers ", the bosses are. In some cases this is necessary, in others not.
But this is just a cheap attempt to pit different kinds of workers against each othe. Musk wants to obscure the fact that the guy behind the McDonald's counter is still way closer to the average silicon valley developer, than the developer is to Musk when it comes to wealth.
But what do you expect from someone who thinks it is easier to settle Mars and make it livable, than to stop making our own planet - on which we have evolved and are therefore perfectly suited for - not livable.
- sureglymop 3y agoYou are exactly right. With a phrase like "laptop class", he is obscuring the concept of social class. In reality, "laptop workers" and e.g. construction workers do not belong to a different social class. Both are part of the working class. It is of course an unsubstantiated claim that "they are asking everyone else to not work from home while they do". People are asking for better working conditions for themselves, making sure that other workers don't get the same benefits is obviously not part of what is being asked for.