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out of stateLorena Gonzalez, tell us how you really feel about Teslas TSLA, boss.
F--k Elon Musk
Thats the message Gonzalez, a California assemblywoman in San Diego, delivered about Musk on Saturday night after he said hell be moving company headquarters to Texas or Nevada.
Her response followed on the heels this tweet:
Link to tweet
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Musk has voiced his frustrations in recent weeks over Californias fascist approach to combatting the coronavirus. He also said Tesla plans to sue Alameda County, where health officials got in the way of employees getting back to work even as lockdown measures statewide began to ease.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/california-assemblywoman-hits-elon-musk-with-an-f-bomb-after-he-says-will-move-teslas-hq-out-of-state-2020-05-10?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)
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rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)The guy is wanting to sell cars during a health crisis. Americans are dying.
jimfields33
(15,450 posts)Hekate
(90,188 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I have done business in the Bay Area for decades, car manufacturing was never significant in the Bay Area proper, jobs that required highly educated people have been the engine for the last 40 years, even before I started visiting there. The East Bay, where the Tesla plant is was behind the times, but a lot of high-tech businesses have expanded into there, so things like rents and salaries have exploded upward.
Musk just wants to manufacture in a place where he can pay line workers less, the typical mode of present capitalism.
Hekate
(90,188 posts)Every single state is suffering, and I don't think Musk is bringing us enough that California has to coddle him. If what he wants is really cheap labor he can try next door to a meat packing plant.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)who doesn't like it when government tells him what to do.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)So carmakers have to pay hourly salaries that are a multiple of what they would pay elsewhere. California is increasingly becoming a haven for businesses that rely on a large amount of intellectual capital, hourly workers are being squeezed out, except for cleaning people, all of who are typically immigrants.
I am in high-tech. The trend that I pointed out has been happening for decades. A house the Bay Area proper that has almost no yard sells for $800,000 to over a million. Prices may be less expensive on the outer fringes of the East Bay or south of San Jose.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Who wins, the people of America when it comes to this virus.
csziggy
(34,119 posts)He can decide if he wants a labor force for the future or a labor force that is increasingly sick.
And whatever happened to those ventilators Musk was going to make at one of his factories? If he'd been smart, he could have claimed that was where he was making them, blame the lack of them on the shut down, and gotten an exception for essential goods. This shows that he never had any intention on making ventilators and is too stupid to use that claim for his own benefit.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,096 posts)silverweb
(16,402 posts)I've admired you for years for your genius, your tenacity, and your willingness to risk everything for your dreams.
Unfortunately, your libertarian proclivities run counter to your own interests in the end. If only you could see that.
PufPuf23
(8,687 posts)to rescind any tax and other benefits going to Tesla and Musk's other endeavors for siting in California.
Fuck you entitled self-centered loon (apologize to actual loons as in birds).
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and still is upset that he moved parts of it to I believe Austin, Texas. Nevertheless, to my understanding is that he is very good to his employees.
Never thought he would freak out like this since he is a man of science, but even some scientist first priority is progress in their eyes.
Another surprise, that COVID-19 is apparently not real.
demosincebirth
(12,518 posts)Theres been trouble on the home front brewing for awhile. Thats why the threats.
jimfields33
(15,450 posts)According to the article, tulsas The last company standing in California.
rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)Blame reagan for making not just cars but other things mage in the USA leaving.
jimfields33
(15,450 posts)And president almost 35 years?
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)jimfields33
(15,450 posts)Have a great weekend!
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I am in high-tech, I have been to the Bay Area. Car manufacturing there never made it on my radar as being a significant driver of the California economy.
jimfields33
(15,450 posts)Im not making anything more then what the article says.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I think GM did some joint venture with Nissan, I think, but other that that, nothing.
Did you know that until recently, California had petroleum refiners in state? It was so small relative to the rest of the state's economy to be un-noticeable.
jimfields33
(15,450 posts)I just read the article thats it. Obviously the article posted is full of crap.
struggle4progress
(118,032 posts)... Musk said he hoped to build 1,000 Starships ...
... the goal is to launch an average of three Starships per day and make the trip to Mars available to anybody ...
"There will be a lot of jobs on Mars!" he added ...
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-plans-1-million-people-to-mars-by-2050-2020-1
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)struggle4progress
(118,032 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)beyond comprehension expensive. There is almost no atmosphere there, overcoming that would require lots of sophisticated shielding to protect life from the rays of the Sun.
pecosbob
(7,502 posts)as they do with environmental regulations. One percenters don't like being told they have to respect worker's rights or pay attention to environmental regulations. Take your punk ass to Vietnam or Cambodia if you want to victimize the world for profit without all those silly regulations or worker protections.
jmowreader
(50,447 posts)...that when Mr. Musk approaches his board and tells them, "I want to move the Fremont Assembly Plant because the State of California made me mad, and it's going to cost us several billion dollars to do it," the Tesla board will tell Mr. Musk his services are no longer required.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,282 posts)Remove Musk, and you have just another car company. Then investors will start looking at profits, market share, etc, instead of the charismatic leader.