Musk: I don't see Trump as the best candidate
for president of the United States in the next election.
US businessman
Elon Musk says he does not see Donald Trump as the best candidate for president of the United States in the upcoming election, saying he believes his Twitter account should be reopened.
Musk added
- in a post on this social media network "Twitter" that he wants to acquire
- with $44 billion: "Although I think it would be preferable to choose
- a less exciting candidate (for the presidency of America) in 2024
- I still think Trump's Twitter account should be reinstated."
As for Joe Biden
Musk said that "the current president's mistake is that he thinks he was elected with a mandate to change America. But in fact, everyone wants less drama. "
Twitter suspended
Trump's account indefinitely on January 8, 2021
two days after supporters stormed the Capitol in an effort to disrupt congressional approval of Democrat Joe Biden's presidential victory. The social network then interpreted its decision as avoiding "the risk of further incitement to violence".
Trump later stated that he would not return to Twitter
and intended to develop his own social network ("Truth").
Elon Musk
CEO of Tesla and SpaceX
predicted that China would produce successful electric vehicle makers
due to strong business ethics, a trait he sees as lacking in the United States.
Musk said Tuesday in an interview
with the Financial Times: "I think there will be some very strong companies coming from China. There are a lot of super talented people who work hard in China and believe strongly in manufacturing ".
Musk
- who ranks as the world's richest person with a wealth estimated
- by Forbes at more than $225 billion, compared Chinese
- manufacturing workers with counterparts in
the United States:
"They're not leaving the factory, whereas in America
people are trying to avoid going to work at all."
- Tesla reportedly used certain working practices at its Shanghai plant that clearly could not or would not be attempted in the United States. For example
- Bloomberg reported last month that after the end of a three-week lockdown, workers at the factory were told to sleep and eat on the factory floor.
- Each staff member received a sleeping bag and an air mattress and was required to work 12 hours' shifts, six days a week.
The National Labour Relations
Council in Washington ruled last year that Tesla had questioned
workers illegally and threatened them about their efforts to form a union.
The company also
- faces an employee's lawsuit
- for allegedly creating a racist culture.
- Other workers accused Musk of being excessive.
However
South African-born Musk himself claims he never walked away from his heavy workload, telling Bloomberg in 2018 that the more his staff felt pain, "I wanted to be worse." He was best known for sleeping on the factory floor when Tesla was racing to meet the production targets of one of its electric vehicles in 2018.
US work ethic appears to have deteriorated since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. 4.54 million US workers resigned from their jobs in March
up 23% from the previous year, leaving employers struggling to
fill an unprecedented abundance of vacancies.
In many cases
terminated remote work policies developed during the pandemic
. U.S. workers' productivity fell 7.5%
from a year earlier in the first three months of 2022, the largest decline since 1947. At the same time, unit labor costs jumped by about 12%, meaning employers were paying much more to get much less.