Billionaire pines for slaves

[jcgoldie]

https://finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/elon-musk-tesla-boss-praises-182248534.html?

“I think there will be some very strong companies coming out of China, there is just a lot of supertalented hardworking people in China who strongly believe in manufacturing,” he added.

“They won’t just be burning the midnight oil, they will be burning the 3am oil, they won’t even leave the factory type of thing, whereas in America people are trying to avoid going to work at all.”

Elon Musk… What a monumental asshole.

[Phoenix61]

1. Spoken like a true union buster. POS. nt

[Budi]

2. Oh ya, Elon, "Return Trump to Twitter!" too

I've always despised that pos. Elon Musk.

Maybe go fix your stupid cars

[Carlitos Brigante]

3. .

Whatta douche!!

[sarcasmo]

4. Elon means, they can't leave the factory.

[sop]

8. They can't leave the factories, so they often commit suicide.

Like the Foxconn Suicides, a rash of worker suicides resulting from the low pay and onerous working conditions at Foxconn-owned facilities in Mainland China. Musk must be aware of these suicides since he created an alliance with the Chinese electronics manufacturer in 2008 to speed up Tesla's production.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

5. Remember his plan for colonizing Mars...

People would work off the cost of transporting them to Mars through indentured servitude. And at least one of his fanboys here said it was a good idea!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

6. Fuck him!

[gratuitous]

7. Supertalented hard working people burning the 3 am oil

All for the greater profit margins of the owner, who doesn't owe those "supertalented hardworking people" one more yuan for anything. And maybe it's about time those layabouts started burning the 4 am oil.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Fascist bastard.

How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse

‘The Event was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, virus, or hack that takes everything down.’ Illustration: Matt Huynh
Silicon Valley’s elite are hatching plans to escape disaster – and when it comes, they’ll leave the rest of us behind

Douglas Rushkoff for Medium via The Guardian
Tue 24 Jul 2018

Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been offered for a talk – about half my annual professor’s salary – all to deliver some insight on the subject of “the future of technology”.

I’ve never liked talking about the future. The Q&A sessions always end up more like parlor games, where I’m asked to opine on the latest technology buzzwords as if they were ticker symbols for potential investments: blockchain, 3D printing, Crispr. The audiences are rarely interested in learning about these technologies or their potential impacts beyond the binary choice of whether or not to invest in them. But money talks, so I took the gig.

Snip…

Which region will be less affected by the coming climate crisis: New Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition, or will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the Event?”

The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr Robot hack that takes everything down.

Continues…

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-futurism-transhumanism-singularity

[Demsrule86]

10. I suppose Elon missed the part where phone companies lock their workers in and some

jump to their deaths rather than continue to be essentially enslaved people. Elon Musk is an asshole

[milestogo]

11. Billionaire Economic Genius

Link to tweet

[Carlitos Brigante]

16. Definitely one of the worst Twitter "comedians" I've seen. nt

[moondust]

12. The hungry apartheidist.

Raised by very wealthy (white) parents during apartheid in South Africa. His father was half-owner of an emerald mine. I'm sure it was mostly white folks working the mine.

I'll bet Elon would love to "capitalize" on those Uighur "re-education" camps in Xinjiang where many would just love the chance to "burn the 3 a.m. oil." The new apartheid!

[Scrivener7]

13. On the bright side, we can live happily without EVERYTHING that Elon Musk sells.

And that will continue to be the case when he buys Twitter.

[Carlitos Brigante]

19. Something's missing in these replies so far. A particular absence, if you will. Can't

quite figure it out.........

[Captain Zero]

20. The way they are pushing the middle class to the lower class

Most American customers of Musk will become twitter influencers at best for free.
No Emeralds
No Teslas

[Carlitos Brigante]

21. Maybe, maybe a t-shirt that reads "Thank you sir! May I have another?!".nt

[Midnight Writer]

14. Sounds like Mitt Romney.

Mitt claims the armed guards, the barbwire fencing, the sealed doors, the snipers in the guard towers at his Chinese factories are to keep workers out, not keep them in.

[onethatcares]

15. what better plane to wish for

than to be in servitude to some jack off with too much money.

The unionization of SB/Amazon and others scares the hell out of the richie richs.

[malaise]

17. His racist daddy was a part owner of mines in Zambia

Pro-apartheid scum

[2naSalit]

18. Affluenza on steroids.

[XanaDUer2]

22. He scares me. Nt

[tinrobot]

23. Stop buying Teslas

There's plenty of other EVs on the market these days. Very easy to go electric without giving him your hard earned liberal dollars.