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> Your comment reads as: “be grateful to work for Elon” which is ridiculous.

Your grand kids will understand.

> An automotive manufacturer who is anti union in 2022? Wtf

Perhaps you should do some research into the current state of "unions" and their members' satisfaction.

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Yeah, my union blue collar friends have a retirement, the non-union ones not so much, hourly pay is massively different in trades like sheet metal workers, etc.

Unions were hard won on the blood of workers. Every OSHA safety regulation the boss complains about costing him money has worker blood on it. It’s like electrical code, you may not like it, but adherence to it provides a market standard.

Workers made American industry great, not grifter CEOs who pretend to speak engineering, and don’t you forget it.

Your grandchildren called me the other day, by the way, so spare me the folksy veneer on anti-Americanism disguised as a work ethic.

No union? No way, Jose!

> my union blue collar friends have a retirement, the non-union ones not so much

Tesla employees own shares. They'll retire as millionaires, not just with a retirement.

> It’s like electrical code, you may not like it, but adherence to it provides a market standard.

Union brings a lot of baggage with it. Sure the above is good but doesn't mean union can be the only way.

> who pretend to speak engineering

He's more of an engineer than you'll ever meet in your life, count on that.

> anti-Americanism disguised as a work ethic

WTF does nationalism have anything to do with this? Musk is planning to put "humanity" on "Mars". You think he gives a flying fk about one country or the other, or traditions and status quo? He cares about people, not Americans. This the most shortsighted comment I've read all week.

> No union? No way, Jose!

Will see amigo.

Meaning, you can’t walk sideways into a union bashing comment just in passing, that’s literally class warfare and shan’t be taken as a mild personal opinion but as an attempt at undermining the working class as a whole an remove the institution known as the trade union that has a solid presence and isn’t dismissible by you or any other mortal much like slavery will never legally return under this civilization ms watch

Class action warfare for making a comment? Ye, definitely an environment one wants to live in. Sounds a lot like China than America.