Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/11/elon-musk-tesla-is-restarti.html
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If Musk gets arrested TSLA is going to $5000
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Cue the lawsuits.
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Now there’s a new parent who really, REALLY wants to get out of diaper duty.
I wonder if he intends to make a similar plea with the virus.
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And cue the fanbois in this topic. Never fails.
ETA: On-topic, per this meme from Xeni’s original article:
[although I’d call the fanbois/personality cultists mentioned by the moderator below “Weird Libertarian Nerds”]
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I really hope he tries to fire people for disobeying a lawful order.
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Then they wouldn’t come to work. It’s a win-win situation!
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Also it’ll be a slam dunk wrongful termination suit.
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If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me.
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Come on, Musk’s grasp of epidemiology and risk assessment is unimpeachable. I mean he totally called the “no new cases by the end of April!” thing. It isn’t like he has a track record of being wrong as shit about this stuff.
Billionaires clearly have everyone’s best interests at heart. I can’t wait to join his Mars colony where I have no doubt he will rule with similar benevolence, foresight, and pan-topic genius.
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Stepping away from Musk fanboi/personality cult hatred for a moment, I’m interested as to why Alameda County isn’t certifying a re-opening. Are they saying that there’s no level of social distancing / PPE / worker protection possible to reopen the plant? Because if that’s their determination, there’s a much larger issue at stake than just “when”.
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And that’s why you need a union and Musk don’t want you to have one.
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I have actually seen Elon Musk’s cult of personality on places like Reddit dissolving pretty fast in lieu of his recent meltdowns.
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From what I’ve seen, it is indeed more a matter of timing than anything else. The county and state have decided that it’s still too early to open non-essential manufacturing plants given the continuing growth in cases. Also, Musk hasn’t specified how many people he wants to bring back to work; “everyone else” implies that he wants to bring staffing in the plant immediately up to 100%
Workplace safety plans are important, but they tend to be implemented after the questions of “when” as well as the “how many”. Here’s a more productive take on those questions than Musk’s petulant “mommy can’t tell me what to do!” approach:
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Because the argument for allowing them to resume business operations against the stay-at-home order hinges on the idea that the factory constitutes “critical infrastructure.”
I mean, electric cars are a good thing and all, but “critical infrastructure” they are not… ESPECIALLY at a time when few people are driving at all.
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trump is repeating like 90% of nixon-era
covid19 behavior is repeating like 90% of “spanish flu”
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That’s the chump play. Investors in the know are putting their money behind the growth in innovation in the shiv market leading to increased returns on commissary futures.
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I see prison commissary vending machines where you can insert a finger and exchange it for a shiv.
This is a one-way deal, you understand. This is not a finger pawn shop. Once you cut off a finger in a prison vending machine, just let that finger go, because it is gone.
But hey – now you have a shiv! And you look badass, missing a finger like that!
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I suspect there will be an injunction or two filed, but not much physical enforcement.
Musk can afford the legal fees, the neighborhood diner or barber not so much.
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