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It’s an interesting thing, because when you have multiple unions actively working to stop Elon musk from doing horrible things with his company, and all he can do is lash out at them, it shows he does not have the mental capacity to bargain which means his company is going to lose more money than they would have, had he used his brain.

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32 points

He is a man of a principle, not a man of brain.

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29 points

Except his principles change with every new conspiracy theory and alt-right outrage propaganda poster.

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9 points

His guiding principle is “always be a shitty evil cunt”. He sticks by that, gotta give him that

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“My guess is that Tesla will not remain in Sweden without collective arrangement.”

so … Tesla won’t remain in Sweden (lucky Swedes) – we already know Elon would rather shoot his foot than agree to anything that doesn’t benefit him personally and immediately …

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At the end of the day, a billionaire’s primary ideology is money. Signing the contract, after failing to defeat the unions, will make him the most money at the end of the day, so I suspect that he will sign it.

Unless he feels like exiting the Swedish, Norwegian and German markets, of course.

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while corporate ideology is money, there’s absolutely no thought put into it – immediate profits always trump long term savings – new customers are gold, customer retention is anathema – we’ve already seen multiple companies that would happily block entire countries rather than play nice – and Elon has proven himself far more infantile and narcissistic than anything we’ve seen before

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The primary ideology is not money all the time, though. Musk showed us that with Twitter quite well. His ego can get in the way of his profits.

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9 points

Also lucky any-other-ev-companh that wants to snap up hoards of trained, skilled workers

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Hordes

Unless you’re calling workers possessions, locked in a vault somewhere

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7 points

I mean, that is sorta how corporations view people.

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5 points

Elon: “Clearly, this is MediaMatters’ fault…”

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It’s interesting timing, right when Sweden is making a breakthrough with sodium ion battery tech. Especially considering that batteries are the only thing Tesla actually produces, and that other EV companies are investing in Northvolt (the company that’s pursuing sodium ion battery tech).

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on top of everything else, Tesla insists on using their own chargers rather than anything standardized (like CCS in EU) similar to the whole custom-phone-connector mess that EU has been trying to move away from

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1 point

Elon Musk thinks big. While most people would shoot themselves in the foot with a pistol, Elon dual wields sawed-off shotguns.

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The guy who wants his employees to work 100h/week and sleep on the floor in the factory calls others insane. Yeah. I have nothing to add to that.

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39 points

There are solid reasons for the strikes. Failing to deal with the issues is insane, unless the company wants to Americanize the whole world…

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27 points

You think there’s any doubt they wanna do that?

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No, I think it’s quite overt. I’m maybe being to mindful of the old Reddit hostilities for suggesting such things. Still acclimatizing to Lemmy even after all this time

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Calling it names ≠ dealing with it, you overgrown toddler.

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