• Tesla employee writes of poor working conditions, forced overtime, low pay
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[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;51807405]How is that title even allowed? It's very misleading, "Tesla has Fallen" makes it sound like they went bankrupt. Lmao "anti-worker" go back to r/fullcommunism.[/QUOTE] Yeah, you're right. I fixed the title, banned OP.
[QUOTE=ultradude25;51803106]Elon already had more money than he could ever personally spend before he invested it all in Tesla and SpaceX. If he was just out to make "the big bux" he wouldn't have bothered with these companies at all. He could've just bought an island or two and sat on his ass for the rest of his life.[/QUOTE] Not saying this is what it is, but when it comes to people like you and me compared to corporate million/billionares the "big bux" is never achieved for them. While most would be satisfied with enough to live comfortably and never have to work again, people going after the big bux never have enough to the point it's almost an addiction to find new ways to make more money. I would say a good 99.9% wouldn't invest all their money into business for fun of it, he did it to make more money, if he didn't think it would make any money he wouldn't have invested into it it's that simple.
[QUOTE=TestECull;51804637]Maybe I'm just an eternal country bumpkin but I don't understand what's so desirable about living [I]in[/I] the city VS living about 5-10 miles or so away from the city limit, out in the border regions between rural and suburban, where you're still able to capitalize on the culture and job market and whatnot without having to pay ludicrous living expenses. The traffic alone is a goddamn nightmare, as anyone subbed to Stanley Roberts's People Behaving Badly channel on YT can attest. And then it's jut...blah. City life. Too close to everyone, no space to yourself, can't enjoy hobbies like working on old cars, fuel powered RCs, or target shooting, you'll have the cops on your doorstep if you play a game like Fallout 4 past 8PM or so with speakers, you're almost forced into parking curbside which opens your ride up to getting sideswiped and/or trying to snake it into a tight and cramped parking garage...I don't see the desirability. You'd have to pay me to live in an environment like that. If I were one of those workers I'd probably be one of the oddballs not clamoring for more salary beyond being able buy more model trains and video games than I previously could, mostly on the basis that I'd be commuting in from the desert around the city rather than the city itself. The working conditions, however...yah, that's something that can always be improved. And I'd be all for unionizing as long as the dues were reasonable and the union wasn't corrupt-as-fuck.[/QUOTE] I live in the DC metropolitan area, very similar to LA in a lot of respects regarding housing, cost of living, etc, and a huge reason people like to live in the city is proximity to work. I know co-workers who do exactly what you suggest, living out where suburban meets rural. The thing is, if you work in DC proper, you're talking at least 30 miles away from your workplace, and in typical traffic conditions that's 1-1.5 hours [I]each way[/I] commuting. Then you need a place to park (and to pay for parking in most places, which is not cheap), and that level of driving incurs high wear and tear on your vehicle. Unsurprisingly, a lot of people don't like the idea of spending 2-3 hours every day in traffic and then having to pay for the privilege, so they live in the city instead.
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