• SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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    11 months ago

    Musk said last week: “I disagree with the idea of unions. I just don’t like anything which creates a lords-and-peasants kind of thing.”

    Isn’t he the world’s richest person currently?

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      “I disagree with the idea of unions. I just don’t like anything which creates a lords-and-peasants kind of thing.”

      Tweet sent from private plane.

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      11 months ago

      The propaganda here is that they want you to believe that collective action against them makes them lords - but they were lords before, unionisation just limited that power: The limitation of power makes them cry their propaganda.

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      11 months ago

      He has been. No idea if he still is, seeing how X is in freefall.

      It’s understandable that he doesn’t like lords and peasants, since his family’s fortune was built on slave labor. He would naturally much prefer a master-and-slave kind of thing.

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      11 months ago

      I think the French guy who owns Gucci is currently ahead because of the Twitter stupidity.

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      11 months ago

      Isn’t he the world’s richest person currently?

      not he losed it totwitter and them to stock failing

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        Twitter was a drop in the bucket for him. 44bil lost and still in the top 3 most wealthy people in the world. He has way too much money for his own good and we are watching in real time what that kind of money does to a person

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          I don’t think the money is the root of evil in Musk. I think he was a bad man before he got rich. What we are witnessing is the result of a bad man who got too rich and now he can assert his will with his wallet in politics, economy, business, and anything else he chooses.

          It’s sickening.

  • 018118055@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    I wish reporting would challenge the lords and peasants assertion. Workplaces with collective agreements don’t require union membership, but all workers benefit from the collectively bargained terms of employment.