Tesla CEO ‘The laptop class is living in la-la land’ over work-from-home

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I've read a lot about Mr Musk's intelligence and many people commenting on those stories would often claim his intellect was media hype.

I never knew and obviously still don't but he's equating the environments needed to do things such as welding automobile frames with software and marketing and accounting? It's fairly obvious to even a third grader that the job environment and necessities for a cafeteria worker and a bookkeeper are quite different.

Claiming that people working from home are morally wrong because "Other people have to come in" is thin ice for Elon Musk. The same argument could be made that he doesn't deserve to have that much wealth when other people have so little.

Maybe that's the flex, because it's not like he is under oath or any kind of deposition. It's a power move. His superfans will like it. He is baiting people to say 'well Musk said X and X implies Y so doesn't Musk also mean Y?' In that case 1) those people are talking about Musk which he probably likes and 2) they aren't powerful enough compared to Musk to do anything with that clever implication that they have drawn, and Musk knows it, which he probably also likes.

Who knows? He puts out the impression 99% of his rhetoric isn't from any plan. As if he has a couple talking points and then extemporizes on everything else. Reading into it any further without evidence just fuels that narrative that we are a bunch of "Foamers" and living in "La-La Land."

The fact that he didn't provide any evidence to back up his claim about productivity of workers and only mentioned how unfair it is for some people to work from home makes me think he's hiding the true motivations. Probably something along the lines of conservation of the status quo. "Don't change things too fast for me!"

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