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It's what you get if you try to break a strike by hiring scabs. The unions will try to break you right back. Elon is going to have to hire a lot of scabs if he
by mcv 3y ago
It's what you get if you try to break a strike by hiring scabs. The unions will try to break you right back. Elon is going to have to hire a lot of scabs if he still wants to do business in Sweden.
And if I'm not mistaken, business for Tesla has been pretty big in Scandinavia. I've heard they've got a significant chunk of the market in Norway. No idea if Sweden is the same, but I think Elon's confrontational approach could really hurt Tesla.
- pseg134 3y ago[flagged]
- mcv 3y agoDid you mean to write "failed state" there? That's a rather odd remark when you're talking about one of the most developed and well-organised countries in the world. But that standard, there aren't a lot of successful states out there. Tesla is (or was) huge in Sweden too. I just checked, and EVs are apparently 64% of the market, with the Model Y by far the best-selling model. I guess that's about to change if Elon keeps this up.
- sneak 3y agoThere are more people in Ohio right now than there are Swedes. The successful administration and/or failed-state-ness of Sweden simply isn’t a very big concern in terms of addressable market. This is to say nothing about whether or not Tesla has to care about Sweden; just that Sweden is a tiny country with 10.5M people and it probably isn’t make/break for any global enterprise attempting to operate at planet scale (as it seems Tesla is trying to do).
- rsynnott 3y agoThe American far-right have some weird ideas about Sweden. (To some extent the European far-right do, too, but its proximity makes the truly fantastical stuff harder to sustain.)
- hef19898 3y agoSweden is a failed state, huh? Interesting claim, to say the least... After all, some unicorn start-ups come from there!