It’s always been a huge figurative problem for Elon Musk that he screws his workers. It goes all the way back to his start in tech, when PayPal was successful because they fired him.
He got rich anyway, simply holding stocks for a company that threw him out. That was his big break, which probably never should have happened. Since then he’s been at war with everyone; if you don’t let him screw you, he just throws you away to find someone who will.
For some reason his tactics aren’t yet illegal in America (hint: tragic history of rapid wealth based on slavery and genocide).
For over a decade we see Tesla become a robotic killing machine, Neuralink torture and kill animals, Twitter now being setup to foment hate crimes. All of it unnecessary and yet somehow the message is… “but Musk has taken so much money from others, his false profiteering matters more than people dying.”
Compare that message with Stanford’s FTX. It lost others’ money and America within months is claiming a serious crime must be prosecuted ASAP.
It may seem like we’re taking about young men exploiting a new domain of technology in need of regulation, yet it’s not new at all.
It’s more like a repeat of the worst chapter in history, which has Union Generals rolling in their graves. The U.S. says it carefully monitors and protects assets (ready to dispatch the slavecatchers to recover lost assets), yet totally disregards the value of humans let alone the planet (ignores the loss of life inherent to slavery).
We are watching growth of an intentional racist tyranny in Twitter, total rejection of freedom. It’s a “let them lean in and eat cake” moment for anyone left under Musk’s detached and cruel control.
It reminds me very much of the German factories saying they expected Hitler’s lack of morals would make them rich quick, yet complained as bombs rained down to end the toxic fraud.
I warned how Musk himself was messaging obvious hate to workers recently when I explained the nuance behind his “future vision” was actually nothing but apartheid South Africa:
Indian men are tasked to deliver their white master a black woman “robot” who will “bend over” for his needs. Musk not only said this to everyone publicly, he emphasized by design she would be unable to escape from his control.
Such unjust and immoral thinking gets worse and worse as he touches more lives, becoming literal now.
Beds are installed in the Twitter offices. It’s obvious why.
Anyone with compassion towards others, wider sense of responsibility (family, community) or a life outside, is fired. A weekend? A home? They don’t exist in Musk’s bid to create modern labor camps.
Absolute weakness in his workers is required because independence and strength only makes him angry and jealous.
It’s not an exaggeration either that he’s moved staff to being literally screwed.
A direct report at Neuralink was used to give birth to his own children, while the company ruthlessly tortured and killed animals in its care.
That’s a horrible enough step (again reminiscent of racist whites in Africa) yet her role also was laced overtly with racism, like an old South African apartheid plan of “boss men” using women at work to increase the white birthrate.
Don’t miss all these warning signs from history.
Working for Elon Musk means getting screwed by him in the worst ways possible. If his staff don’t all flee (as reported widely), it may soon be a question of intervention to save them from his tyranny.