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catculation ( catculation@lemmy.zip )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago

“Job Creator” Elon Musk Has Fired Over 6000 Employees in the Last 4 Years, Some for Trying to Unionize

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“Job Creator” Elon Musk Has Fired Over 6000 Employees in the Last 4 Years, Some for Trying to Unionize

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catculation ( catculation@lemmy.zip )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago
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  • BigMacHole ( BigMacHole@lemm.ee ) Banned
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    That’s OBVIOUSLY because we’re Raising His Taxes! If we LOWER his Taxes and Give Him Tax Money he’ll HIRE more people!

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    • snooggums ( snooggums@midwest.social ) 
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      His companies are already funded by government dollars, but clearly not enough.

  • hascat ( hascat@programming.dev ) 
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    Why is half this article about population decline? The writing also seems weird in places. AI generated, maybe?

    • FrostyCaveman ( FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ) 
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      It reads like ChatGPT with the bullet point styling removed. At least, the half of the thing Medium would let me read without signing in did. No Medium, I’m not creating an account or paying you to read AI copypasta garbage

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        • GiveMemes ( GiveMemes@jlai.lu ) 
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          That’s an insult to 6th graders

  • frog 🐸 ( frog@beehaw.org ) 
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    I’d really love to know if “job creators” are actually job creators, or if many small businesses actually create more jobs than one large one. Are “job creators” actually job destroyers?

    • Fizz ( Fizz@lemmy.nz ) Banned
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      I’m pretty sure that a large company like Amazon has destroyed far more jobs than created. Because of the efficiency of their operation

      • frog 🐸 ( frog@beehaw.org ) 
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        That’s what I was thinking. A multitude of small businesses are less efficient, so need more people to do the same amount of work as a single large company. And I would imagine that the competition created by many small companies all chasing after the same pool of employees would have a lesser ability to suppress wages: if one business won’t pay their employees well, those employees will just go and work for someone else instead.

    • darkphotonstudio ( darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org ) 
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      Small businesses employ more people than large corporations, last time I checked.

    • Butterbee (She/Her) ( Butterbee@beehaw.org ) 
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      If you think about it, if you fire everyone and reorganize your business structure, then you’ve opened up all those jobs for prospective employees!

  • originalucifer ( originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ) 
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    when you see someone use ‘job creator’ seriously, you can almost always just assume the speaker is a terrible human being.

    • intensely_human ( intensely_human@lemm.ee ) Banned
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      When you find someone who’s got hard and fast tule for writing people off as worthless, avoid them.

      • originalucifer ( originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ) 
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        in tents

  • CanadaPlus ( CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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    Does anyone honestly believe that if we didn’t have billionaires, there would be no work to do? As far as I can it’s just a thing politicians imply to people who aren’t actually thinking that hard about it, in order to garner support from big (and medium-large) donors.

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    I was suprised to see a headline of 6k people fired over 4 years being called significant and then realised the only reason this article exists is because it’s Twitter staff being fired and this journalist is obsessed with Twitter and thinks every person there is a special soul who should be indefinitely employed.

    Elon specifically said he was going to reduce the size of Twitter. Firing 6k people is not a surprise nor is it negative news. The “job creator” in quotes probably refers to the 200k+ people employed across his 5 companies.

    The focus should be on firing employees for trying to unionized because that’s the only egregious part.

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    Are secrets unions a possibility in order to avoid his ban?

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      How does a union get its power?

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        From workers who think something can be done in a better way.

        • intensely_human ( intensely_human@lemm.ee ) Banned
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          From making its ability to deprive the company of labor known.

          Your answer is no, secret unions don’t work, for that reason.

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          And organized crime

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