Multi-company CEO Elon Musk recently gave his thoughts on working from home as many companies are beginning to urge their employees to return to the office. Musk called remote work “morally wrong” and claimed the “laptop class” is living in “la-la land.”
Elon said, “I think that the whole notion of work from home is a bit like the fake Marie Antoinette quote, ’Let them eat cake.’ It’s not just a productivity thing. I think it’s morally wrong.” Musk also referred to tech workers as the “laptop classes living in la-la land” and stated it was hypocritical to expect service sector employees to show up in person every day.
Musk said, “It’s like, really, you’re going to work from home and you’re going to make everyone else who made your car come work in the factory? You’re going to make the people who make your food… that they can’t work from home? The people that fix your house — they can’t work from home? But, you can? Does that seem morally right? That’s messed up.”
“People should get off the goddamn moral high horse with the work-from-home bulls***,” Musk continued. “I’m saying like, look, put 40 hours in,” Musk said. “And, frankly, it doesn’t even need to be Monday through Friday. You could work Monday through Thursday. And, also, I think people should take vacations.”
Musk obviously isn’t expecting everyone to adopt his work-life balance, which has left him sleeping in the Tesla factory or on the floor under his desk in some instances. Elon has said he doesn’t recommend his lifestyle to the average person. However, he does expect employees to do their part.
Elon Musk also made headlines recently for refusing to back down from a statement where he called out George Soros. The American Tribune reported on the interview Musk gave to a CNBC reporter:
REPORTER: “Elon, you tweeted this thing about George Soros…”
MUSK: “I’m reminded of a scene in ‘The Princess Bride’ — great movie — where he confronts the person who killed his father. And he says, ‘offer me money, offer me power. I don’t care.’”
REPORTER: “So, you just don’t care.”
MUSK: “I’ll say what I want to say and if the consequences of that are losing money, so be it.”
Musk tweeted, “Soros reminds me of Magneto.” He followed up, saying, “I’d like apologize for this post. It was really unfair to Magneto.”
Journalist, Brian Krassenstein, attempted to defend Soros and said, “Fun fact: Magneto’s experiences during the Holocaust as a survivor shaped his perspective as well as his depth and empathy. Soros, also a Holocaust survivor, get’s attacked nonstop for his good intentions which some Americans think are bad merely because they disagree with this political affiliations.” Musk responded, refusing to back down. He said, “You assume they are good intentions. They are not. He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity.”
This represents Elon Musk’s intentions with buying Twitter, “I’ll say what I want to say.” Elon strives to make Twitter a free-speech environment free from censorship.
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