Elon Musk: 'Chinese Workers Burning 3am Oil' 'In America People Are Trying To Avoid Going To Work'

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- 'Elon Musk praises Chinese workers for ‘burning the 3am oil’ – here’s what that really looks like.' The Guardian, May 12, 2022. Ed. Tesla’s massive Shanghai ‘Giga-factory’ pushes its workers to the limit to meet production targets amid an ongoing pandemic lockdown.

How do you become the richest man in the world? In Elon Musk’s case, part of it involves making workers in China put in hours that would be unacceptable according to labor norms elsewhere. On Tuesday, the Tesla boss praised Chinese factory workers for pulling extreme hours while taking a shot at American workers. “There is just a lot of super talented hardworking people in China who strongly believe in manufacturing,” the billionaire said. “They won’t just be burning the midnight oil, they will be burning the 3am oil, they won’t even leave the factory type of thing, whereas in America people are trying to avoid going to work at all.”

Musk’s comment comes as Tesla’s massive Shanghai “Giga-factory” pushes its workers to the limit to meet production targets amid an ongoing pandemic lockdown. In April, Tesla restricted its Shanghai workers from leaving the factory under a so-called “closed-loop” system originally developed by Chinese authorities to contain Beijing Olympics participants. While locked inside, the workers were reportedly made to work 12-hour shifts, six days in a row, and to sleep on factory floors. Production at the plant was forced to halt this week due to parts shortages, the company said.

Labor rights and safety violations have been reported at Tesla’s Shanghai factory since it opened in 2018, with some workers making as little as $1,500 a month in what an investigation by local journalists called the “Giga-sweatshop.” Even in the U.S., Musk is well known for his disregard for labor norms and work-life balance: the tech billionaire infamously declared “nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week”. He has bragged about making Tesla’s US employees work 100-hour weeks, while claiming to have worked 120-hour weeks himself. In March, Musk called an all-hands meeting for his other company, SpaceX, at 1am.

These practices are on par with China’s extreme work culture, nicknamed “996”, in which workers are expected to work from 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week. The practice has been the source of protests in recent years and has been characterized as a form of modern slavery...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/12/elon-musk-praises-chinese-workers-for-extreme-work-culture

[eShirl]

1. he wants the best slaves

[appalachiablue]

2. Not very subtle either, lol

[dweller]

3. Can't wait for this a-hole

to become irrelevant
😑



✌🏻

[appalachiablue]

5. For real, every month another blast

[Alexander Of Assyria]

7. Richest man in the world? Don't think so...world loves him and hates him, never going away.

And he has rockets, so….

[crud]

4. Fuck you asshole

[Alexander Of Assyria]

6. Musk has a stoner quote for everything under the Sun...plays the so called media like a drum.

Love him or hate him, the richest man in he world is not a fool and does not tolerate fools…that also is intolerable in the media.

Apes in cages we r all collectively, and shaking the cage is what I would also do if I could.

[dixiechiken1]

8. Just because one has money doesn't mean they are not a fool...

Just look at DJT, Jr.

[Faux pas]

9. Just

another soulless asshole wanting to rule the world.

[Farmer-Rick]

10. I've noticed that Walmart in my area is more likely to run out

Of products then any other grocery store or department store.

I suspect that those Chinese workers are just not working fast or hard enough to keep Walmart's shelves filled. And those Waltons need more money to force their forced birth agenda on to All American women. (They are the number one donors to forced birth legislation.)

Just to let you know everytime you buy from Walmart, you're giving money to forced birth supporters.

Those American workers seem to keep their products in stock.

That so called supply chain is easily snapped when you order products from over 7,000 miles away.

[niyad]

11. Fucker, may you receive everything you deserve.

[larwdem]

12. elon

move to china

[appalachiablue]

13. Great idea