You trash corporate executives and call everyone here trolls. You are just a grumpy old geezer who draws your union pension and social security. You aren’t here for discussion. Your only goal is to argue, as you try to make everyone as miserable as yourself.
The guy is a total jerk. I wish FR had a mute or a block button so I wouldn’t have to see his posts.
It's quite fashionable to say "Americans are lazy and entitled" and to compare today's worker with yesteryear.
But nobody ever compares the executive greed and entitlement with yesteryear.
I call people trolls when they deserve it:
the US built the atom bomb and went to the moon without offshoring to thd Third World or importing them. Those immigrants who did come here (and are used as the excuse for importing H1-Bs en masse) were once-in-a-generation physicists like Einstein and Fermi.
The Snowflakes are spoiled and entitled...but all the prior generation of American workers, were not: but they were still summarily tossed out the door to savd geeedy executives a few bucks so they could get large bonuses.
The cost savings were not shared with the customer, and the executives tried to gaslight the public about the loss of quality, and the social costs borne by the community as a whole.
I am anti-Union and am still working. No pension, either: that was robbed from me by executives unilaterally forcing workers onto 401(k)s while lying that it was better for the workers.
Elon Musk is the richest man in yhe history of humanity.
It is appalling that he attempts to argue that he *has to* tip the wage scale in the US in his own favor, or he won't be able to succeed in business.
(I've written the same thing decades ago about Microsoft and their $52 billion special dividend. They could have invested it in T-bills and used the interest alone to fund US programmers without touching or risking the principal, and without affecting cash flow from continuing operations which had generated that pile of cash.)
Do they have the right to spend their money how they want? Yes.
Do they have a business need, or the moral right to force myriad social problems on the country which gives the a peaceful market, more or less equitable rule of law, existing infrastructure, allows them freedom to run a business without bribery/govt. extortion, etc.? No.