Elon Musk has decried a wave of “insane” strikes focused on Tesla workshops in Sweden, as workers target the US electric car manufacturer in a strike calling for collective bargaining rights.

In what has been portrayed as the largest fight in decades to save Sweden’s union model from global labour practices, the powerful trade union IF Metall has been leading a strike across eight Tesla workplaces in Sweden for five weeks.

It is the first time workers for the US carmaker have gone on strike and on Thursday, Musk, the tech billionaire and chief executive of Tesla, made his feelings clear, writing on X, formerly Twitter: “This is insane.”

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[–] 57 points 2 years ago (3 children)

But didn't he also go above and beyond to have him portrayed as founder of SpaceX?

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah, and I'm fairly certain he bought the right to be called 'founder' of Tesla... From the founders.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    Then almost immediately bankrupted Tesla. Was their first near miss of going under.

    Story has been retconned on their website to say Elon fixed the car. That the Roadster wasn't even close to production ready. He did neither.

    What really happened is he wanted to redo much of the looks of the car to put his stamp on it. They spent a small fortune tweaking the Elise body to make it look just slightly less like one. Ballooned their production costs and added a ton of delays. The original team was going to use the Elise chassis as it came from Lotus and people had already lined up to buy that.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    That's what all "visionary entrepreneurs" do. They pretend like they made every single product they sell with their bare hands and all the engineers and scientists designing them and the factory workers fabricating them are just for decoration.

    I'm also convinced that they've breathed enough of their own farts that they genuinely believe most of the things they say.

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