I guess. Maybe that needs to be overhauled so every employer offers benefits. It’s unconscionable that Americans need to even negotiate benefits - it should be baked into the salary and transparent to the (potential) employee.

First Gear:

Years ago, I spent 3 months working in Germany. I loved it, but it’s a different way of living.

I would like SpaceX if it were owned by your average replacement-level billionaire. Even though their staff does amazing work, I can’t, and I hope they fail. Not because I want them to, but because Elmo is pocketing a good chunk of those $15 billion in projected government contracts and will use it in his ongoing…

Yep.  A couple I’m friends with used to live in the LA area and worked in the industry.  But one of them was French and has dual citizenship, and they’re definitely left-leaning.  They proclaimed that if W got elected, they’d leave the country and move to France.  W did of course, and they left, and they are now…

It was written all over him when he was forced out of PayPal.

Shitty people do shitty things and surround themselves with shitty people.

It would take several down quarters for there to actually be a problem. If most auto manufacturers actually starting meeting EV production targets, there wouldn’t be a market for Tesla’s credits and that would affect their profitability.

I think they are kidding themselves. I knew who Musk really was years ago. It’s written all over him all the time. 

1st gear: I saw a decal on a Model S this weekend. It said: I bought this before he came out as an asshole.

3rd gear: Yucca APG is 4000 acres not 18 acres.

The biggest difference in pay is that many European and Asian countries present a net salary to employees, with all the benefits bundled. In the US, we get offered a gross salary, which looks great at first glance, but after benefits are subtracted (and taxes), it’s not as high as you’d think.

This. The US is the best place in the world to live if you can afford it. It gets markedly shittier the less able to afford it you are, right up to arresting the homeless.

I know a couple people that came from UK to USA. They were Physical Therapists. They came for higher pay and less taxes. Now they’re moving back because the supposed net gain ended up being a net deficit after having to figure out health insurance, etc. that their taxes paid for in England.

Agree. I know some folks have posted here that they can separate Tesla from the CEO and are comfortable buying their cars, but I don’t see how people do it.

3rd gear: I wonder how long its going to take for us to realize that maybe, just maybe, the USA is not as great a place to live as we’ve been told.

I’ve got several ex-pat friends in various European countries. None of them left the US because they hated it here- a couple got assigned to europe for work, a couple got…

It’s such a strange position to be in. I will never own a Tesla product because of Musk’s ignorant attitude towards just about everything and everyone but now his politics.

I realize many people are all “dur, you buy from (name a automaker) and dont know the CEO’s politix!!1!!” but Musk has sooooo gone over the cliff in his pro-facism support, that I believe he’s repulsed about half the country from buying his products.

1st gear: It’s just too bad that pretty much all of the investors and board are enamored with his bullshit and determined to prop up the emperor with no clothes, die-hard yes men to the end. And nothing and no one else has any way to influence his grifting - his ill-gotten wealth is an impervious shield.

Yeah, I’m from north of there and not sure how many shoot-outs the Ukiah PD has been involved in in recent years.

Also, headline might also read: “Small sedan with small back seat cannot easily haul suspected criminals in custody because it has a small back seat.”

Makes me wonder too how the department pays for fuel.…