he doesn't believe in union mediocrity.
Remember one thing friend - the assembly-line union workers ARE NOT the ones calling the shots in the boardrooms. It's a well-known FACT that CEO Roger Smith of GM - as did his contemporaries at the other auto companies - made the decisions to NOT spend more on engineering and product development. They instead decided to "go with the flow" and build a continuing flood of ever-more obsolete designs on the SAME OLD PLATFORMS. Those decisions weren't made by the union workers on the production lines. Elon Musk at least isn't afraid to break new ground. He's not resting on stodgy, old design work. He spends money on new engineering.
As for pro-worker sentiment (which is growing even in the non-union sectors) - How many of the folks on here think they're being paid too much for the work they do?? Think it's better for the economy to have the masses of working folks make less .... and the top executives make even more??? How many top executives come into your business and buy goods or services from you - or your employer?? How many corporate big-wigs buy homes built by you, get their cars serviced by you, have pools installed by you, or buy their recreational equipment from you????? And what about the flood of automation / AI that's eliminating millions of jobs??? Are those machines and computerized systems going to buy your goods and services??? Unions - at their core mission - have ALWAYS been standing up for the working people. That's what a union is - a group of workers standing up for themselves. No union worker made millions from being a union member. A decent living??? Yes, hopefully ...... but certainly not millionaires.
Or is it rather - the guy and gal down the street, the family up the road, the EMT who comes to save your life in an ambulance, the local office worker, or the farmer 10 miles away?? What would it do for the economy if the avg. working Joe was paid a bit more - not multi-millions like the ANNUAL salary increase of the CEO's and other big-wigs - but a decent living wage/salary?? As Warren Buffet has said before, sufficient money needs to be in the hands of the people who will put it back into the economy. Buffet also said, "people like me are not going to change our spending habits." (in reference to the rich buying more "stuff" to make up for what the masses cannot afford anymore.) The VAST BULK of the world's wealth is in the hands of a tiny percentage of the population - and I'm NOT talking about the folks who worked hard and amassed 1 million or 5 million. Even those folks are small potatoes in the big scheme of things. If anyone thinks folks like Bezos, Musk, Gates, or any of the other multi-BILLIONAIRES need more money , and should keep pay LOW to achieve that end .............
Send your money (by sacrificing decent 2022 pay level ) to
ME. I think I
DESERVE it more because all of you "working schlepps" are lazy and overpaid. (executive-think)
I watch the numbers of GOOD, HARD-WORKING Americans just roll over and get steam-rolled by the FEW who really pull the strings ........... as the economic pie we ALL eat from gets shifted more and more to the FEW .......... who are already swollen & engorged by their never-ending GREED. As Leona Helmsley (billionairess) once tagged us, "the little people" scramble for the crumbs left over of the pie ............
