Yup, so instead I’ll just put all my trust in my employer, whose sole objective is to make more money by any means necessary. Solid plan.

Right, though the answer to this is better unions, not no unions.

Can’t eat stock. I HOPE for these types of employees that the equity is stock via the 401k. Any other type equity option likely creates a bunch of tax BS that’s not worth it for $17/hr.

It’s weird because it becomes pretty obvious that total compensation means dick if you aren’t getting a living wage. Honestly I’d feel a certain kind of way as a low skill laborer with equity. You’d obviously have to be there for a number of years to really reap the benefits but that’s a lotttt of faith that a company…

a smart, reasonable person? WTF ARE YOU DOING HERE?

Equity doesn’t put food on the table when your wages pay the rent. You seriously underestimate the cost of living in and near Freemont.

Freemont is right there in the bay too. It’s not like there’s an actual place to live within reasonable driving distance that would make $19 livable. Equity doesn’t mean much if you can’t spend it while you work. Musk won’t move manufacturing to a lower COL area because Tesla is a “tech” not an auto company #pride.…

Ford’s “Keynesianism” is a big myth. The only reason Ford raised wages and improved working conditions was to reduce turnover. During the boom years of the 1920's workers quitting was a huge problem and any complex production process is greatly harmed by turnover, retraining and general worker malaise. Obviously,…

[“Most tesla workers are paid between 17-21 dollars an hour.”

That’s what I picked up on. Equity is great, but it don’t pay the rent.

True if it was not for him to massively abuse workers and support the Germans in WW-II it would have never empowered the workers to fight him.

The problem is that equity is yet another tool, like employment-based health insurance, to further erode the ability of workers to take their labor elsewhere if they are treated unfairly.

Don’t want to deal with employees on an equal footing? Don’t start a business snowflake.

While corporate charters had their place back in the day, I think it is high time for the government to only support employee owned collectives. It is the only moral position a government could possibly take. Many of the periphery systematic problems of an economic system where the owner/investor gets 100+% of the…

Ford instituted weekends for his gain and his gain only. Weekends off meant his employees had Saturday to go buy cars. Ford was both anti labor and a giant racist.

Henry Ford isn’t singlehandedly responsible for weekends. Thats a remarkably absurd comment that ignores the entire history of the labor movement. I am not denying that Ford was a labor visionary in many senses, but it was the labor movement that forced the issue.

Lol, you like weekends, buddy? Go thank your nearest labor union

So they’d pay $9-13 instead

best guild your loins, elon - they’re getting assembled and lining up for a fight.

I’ve become progressively more left since I started working. My parents were split on party lines, although both were socially liberal. Most of the kids I went to college with were sons and daughters of the 1%. Being exposed to reality and doing research led me to realize how backwards our country is in some important…