Billionaires need to be taxed out of existance.
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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That's certainly one of the two ways.
Elon is probably only carrying that child on his shoulders all the time now as a human shield.
I thought he was practicing to do that with Trump.
Which is how you know he knows fuck-all about America, cause we're kinda indifferent to both collateral casualties and gun violence being the number one cause of death for children.
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At least until everyone has homes, food, healthcare, freedom, and education.
Neither of these assholes have ever had a real job. Not even a high paying real job.
Billionaires are a problem.
As someone who was mostly remote since 2015 I’m pretty confused
Clearly you're living a life of luxury and privilege unlike ordinary hard-working folk like... (tries to keep straight face)... Elon Musk.
Doing drugs and shit-posting is hard work.
Don't forget all the effort he put in for years to not scream from the top of his lungs that he's a nazi. It's tough, I bet he even broke a sweat.
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Me too. Musk can't actually manage people, but he can pretend more convincingly if he can see them in person and yell at them. There are a lot of managers like that and there are far more executives.
My company looked at the actual business results from the period of COVID remote work. Productivity went up, so they decided to keep things that way. It also allowed them to get rid of all their office space, except for a sparsely populated headquarters building, which is saving them a lot of money.
Most studies have shown that workers were more efficient when working remotely. Why would any executive want to reduce efficiency and increase infrastructure costs? The Return-To-Office push is not rational. It represents an inability to adapt to changing conditions. If boards were doing their jobs, they would be quietly showing those executives the door and looking for better people to run their companies.
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Remote since 2014... People are crazy
Hell, my uncle was an attorney who was fully remote in the 80s.
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stupid control freaks. Because controlling of their employees is what RTO is about, control and paranoia.
They are stupid paranoid control freaks who fear that their neat buildings stand empty and they cant just throw work at their wage slaves. So this is actually about control, paranoia, and vanity.
The stupid thing is I actively do less work in the office.
Almost all desk work should be ad hoc.
Get your shit done. Then do what ever until there's more work to do.
Many people do for the sole reason that you're more productive when you're comfortable and you're probably going to be more comfortable at home.
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That and they don't understand how to manage people remotely.
One of the benefits of working from home has been that my manager can no longer use standing staring at me as his main means of judging whether I'm doing work. The whole business of needing to see people working just smacks of shitty management.
So their reasons is control, paranoia, vanity, incompetence when it comes to remote management and their undivided devotion to the American Dollar.
^something^ ^something^ ^spanish^ ^inquisition^
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That and they don't understand how to manage people ~~remotely~~.
FTFY
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Ok, let's say it is a covid-era privilege. Why does that mean it has to go away? Why can't it be a modern day innovation? Isn't it a curb on vehicle emissions? More spending money in people's wallets if they're not paying for gas or coffee or meals on the go due to commuting? What's the fuckin downside?? We stumbled upon a good thing
Oh fuck, I forgot the real estate prices. My bad. Yea let's cancel this whole thing
You forgot, it saves people 30 mins - 2 hours every day. What are they going to do with that time? Enjoy themselves? Advocate for their own interests?
No, clearly this cannot stand
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Isn’t it a curb on vehicle emissions?
Welllll, Elon owns a large share of a company that makes vehicles. So the more people drive, the better for him.
It’s also incredibly fucked up that they’re worried about real estate prices falling in an economy where so many are having a problem paying rent or owning a house.
Can Musk please, please, please, just fucking die already? Preferably burnt to death while trapped in a cybertruck. He's just so stupid and has too much power, and I'm tired of people treating him like he's worth more than utter contempt.
Ramaswamy can go, too. Conspiracy theory peddling sycophant.
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"I'll be in the office when Elon is in the office."
Yeah is this guy showing up to Tesla, Twitter, and SpaceX every single day?
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He needs us more than we need him.
he should probably let that sink in.
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Covid - the best times of our lives
If COVID was the best, just wait till bird flu gets here.
They probably won’t lock down again. It will be full steam ahead for the economy. Keep throwing bodies into the burner.
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I worked at a national company of some fame for nearly 20 years. They have two main offices, one in the midwest and one in New England. Before COVID, it was common for folks to work from home, spread across the United States. We even had some fringe cases where people lived in England or Japan and worked from there. I don't work there anymore, but I hear post covid they are forcing people to move and work from the office. It really is leadership brain rot, everywhere, regardless of industry.
I’ve been working remotely long before the pandemic and I will continue to do so - I’m far from being alone in that. Also, we are still in the “covid-era”, we just collectively decided to pretend we aren’t.
First remote job I had was in 2010 making barely more than minimum wage for tier 1 phone support. These guys are off their rockers.
Rip Disabled people I guess.
And this is coming from the same peoppe saying “just get a job”.
You gotta provide accomodations my guy.
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I'm "racist" against billionaires and not even pretending not to be. There's like no more than a small handful who do much (relative % I mean) good for anybody. Those should be noted and tasted normally (if they weren't while on the way up), but they should be taxed out of existence. Il
I don't know what the number should be, but it shouldn't be possible for your net worth to even approach a billion.
Probably smaller than $50M. Shouldn't be possible to surpass that much. Even that amount should be heavily forced into charity.
If you're in that upper echelon, I automatically hate you before I've heard of you, and I'm fairly confident the amount of times I'm wrong would be extremely small.
Super rich people have to prove they're worth not hating. Their default position is "hated idiot" until proven otherwise.
There's just so little possibility I wouldn't want them dead in a vacuum (devoid of other moral considerations).
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You mean the "privilege" of working from home so tech CEOs could make billions of dollars?
Obviously billions of dollars is just the result of hard work and not a privilege at all.
The company I work for is pushing almost all of IT to WFH so they can get rid of all the office space they're renting. It actually kind of sucks for me because I don't like working from home.
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HE'S WORKING FROM FUCKING MARALAGO FUCK YOU
What i don't get in all of this: There are already companies that did go out of business because too many people just left, due to them not being able to do WFH. Personally, I do like going to the office 1-2 times a week, but even I would leave the company if the got rid of WFH completely. There's near full employment everywhere, especially tech companies already have to go the extra mile to get people to work for them. Why would anyone stay at a company that does not do WFH, if that's one thing they got to enjoy?
This is why they're also fighting for those visas. They want to hire people but don't want to pay US wages. And when your residency depends on your employment, you're going to be much less likely to call out bullshit or whatever
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Still trying to look as cool as possible, and it doesn't work when they do it, so they try harder, which makes it even worse. Dweebs.
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