If the owner of the company I worked for, who invested well over 40 hour weeks so he could become insanely rich, wrote an email that referred to 40 hours
minimum in such a flippant way, I would 100% find a new company to work for.
This idea that Musk famously risked it all to make Tesla so he could come out as a billionaire does not scale down to an individual level for employees. Musk slept on the floor so he could become insanely wealthy, not to get a $10k/year raise.
This type of manipulation is constantly abused by rich oligarchs. They start these endeavors usually with huge parachutes, and then expect their hourly employees to risk nearly as much as they did, with no parachutes, and without the world changing profits that come with it. Citing hard work the entire way, knowing full well that it is the hard work of their employees that they depend on to keep the gears moving, but that those hard workers will not become the next Musk or Gates, regardless of how many hours they put in.
If I'm wrong, I want a list of millionaires that Musk has created. Bonus points if they still work at Tesla and didn't have to spin their experience off into another project, so the work-to-profit transfer can be 1:1.
This idea that Musk famously risked it all to make Tesla so he could come out as a billionaire does not scale down to an individual level for employees. Musk slept on the floor so he could become insanely wealthy, not to get a $10k/year raise.
This type of manipulation is constantly abused by rich oligarchs. They start these endeavors usually with huge parachutes, and then expect their hourly employees to risk nearly as much as they did, with no parachutes, and without the world changing profits that come with it. Citing hard work the entire way, knowing full well that it is the hard work of their employees that they depend on to keep the gears moving, but that those hard workers will not become the next Musk or Gates, regardless of how many hours they put in.
If I'm wrong, I want a list of millionaires that Musk has created. Bonus points if they still work at Tesla and didn't have to spin their experience off into another project, so the work-to-profit transfer can be 1:1.