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1. Crushes unionization attempts at tesla factories, promising free frozen yogurt in return.
Buzzfeed: Elon Musk Slams Tesla Union Drive, Promises Workers Free Frozen Yogurt
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2. Employees at Tesla suffer twice as many serious workplace injuries than the industry average.
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3. Forced to pay out ~$4 Million in a class action lawsuit to 4,100 SpaceX employees who say the company refused to allow them to take legally mandated breaks during the workday, as a consequence of how the company structured its shift patterns.
Inverse: SpaceX Must Pay $4 Million for Thousands of Underpaid Employees
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4. Uses public money to fund private ventures, costing taxpayers $4.9B.
The Detroit News: Elon Musk, crony capitalist king
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5. Attracts new investors by hyping failed projects, leading many financial investigators to consider Tesla a ponzi scheme.
Zero Hedge: Is This Why Tesla Executives Are Fleeing?
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6. Musk fires Tesla worker for testing positive for THC, then goes on the Joe Rogan show and smokes weed himself.
In reality the worker was fired for her union organizing and supporting the United Autoworkers Union.
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7. Wants to privatize space travel, leaving colonization and exploration to to the richest few.
Salon: Against Mars-a-Lago: Why SpaceX's Mars colonization plan should terrify you
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8. Actively feeds his own cult of personality, as it raises his companyâs stock price.
The Verge: The gospel of Elon Musk, according to his flock
r/socialism: Why is there a cult of personality around Elon Musk?
Criticism of Musk or Tesla is often met with toxic harrassment, especially against women.
The Daily Beast: What Itâs Like When Elon Muskâs Twitter Mob Comes After You
One such âTony-Starkâ from Rolling-Stone.
Rolling Stone: Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow
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9. Despite rumours of Musk being a self-made mad scientist genius, he was born into a wealthy white South African family, and his father owned Emerald mines.
Business Insider: Elon Musk's family once owned an emerald mine in Zambia
His wealth comes not from scientific discovery or innovation, but from his father funding his first business ventures, and from buying and selling companies such as PayPal, SolarCity, SpaceX, and Tesla.
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10. Musk takes advantage of international crises to raise Teslaâs stock price.
In one case, Musk promised to âfixâ Puerto Ricoâs power grid after it was decimated by Hurricane Maria.
In These Times: Elon Musk Is Not the Hero Puerto Rico Needs
He deploys solar panels to a hospital, dozens of news articles were written about the business-saviness of this decision, and the stock price soared.
The Hill: Musk: Tesla can rebuild Puerto Rico power grid
Inc.: Elon Musk's Response to Puerto Rico Is Pure Marketing Genius
PR reps told Musk they donât want their power grid privatized by billionaires.
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11. Despite being hailed as a leader in the fight against climate change, he donates 7x more money to Republicans.
âIs it any surprise that a union-busting capitalist donated heavily to the Republican Party? No,â
said Sydney Ghazarian, of the Democratic Socialists of Americaâs environmental justice working group.
HuffPost: Elon Musk Has Donated Nearly 7 Times As Much To Republicans This Cycle
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12. Fired his assistance of 12 years for asking for a raise.
Divorced his wife after telling her that his life âoperated quite smoothlyâ in her absence.
Jalopnik: Elon Musk Once Fired His Assistant Of 12 Years For Wanting A Raise
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13. As a PR stunt, Musk promised to build a mini-submarine to rescue a boys soccer team that got trapped in a Thai cave in 2018.
After receiving vitriol from the Thai and rescue community, Musk called one of the cave rescuers, a pedophile.
Vox: Elon Musk and the Thai cave rescue: a tale of good intentions and bad tweets
After the rescuer sues Musk for defamation, Musk pays 50k to a private investigator (and former felon), to dig up dirt on the rescuer, and was told to use âaggressive tacticsâ.
BuzzFeed: Elon Musk Hired A Convicted Felon To Investigate The Cave Rescuer Who Is Now Suing Him
Muskâs team then told the investigator:
âWe would like you to immediately move forward with âleakingâ this information to the UK press. Obviously must be done very carefully.â
Musk and his team even lobbied the Thai gov and prime minister to get a local official to reverse a statement saying the mini-submarine wasnât practical, before the children had been rescued.
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14. Rocket jesus broken promises
Counter of days passed since Elon Musk promised something yet again
r/EnoughMuskSpam: Tracking Elon Musk's visions, promises and predictions
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15. Marie Claire: 'I Was a Starter Wife': Inside America's Messiest Divorce
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16. Expressed support for a military coup in Bolivia. It might be just a coincidence but Bolivia has large lithium deposits.
Source: Evo Morales on Twitter
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17. Mocked people for calling their pronouns, which makes Musk a transphobe.
âI totally uphold trans, however, every one of these pronouns are a tasteful bad dream,â
Musk tweeted.
Then he tried to defend himself by saying Tesla had 100/100 score in LGBTQ equality but former HRC press secretary noted that was kinda the opposite of LGBTQ inclusivity.
Source: Charlotte Clymer on Twitter
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