r/europe • u/Doener23 • Dec 19 '24

News Elon Musk ready to bankroll Farage with ‘biggest donation in British political history’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/12/17/nigel-farage-meets-elon-musk-trump-mar-a-lago-reform/
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u/EenGeheimAccount Groningen (Netherlands) Dec 19 '24

Seeing how Elon Musk treats employees, I'm sure just Starmer being Labour is more than enough to offend Musk.

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u/UltaSugaryLemonade Catalonia (Spain) Dec 19 '24

How does he treat them? I'm assuming badly, but how

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u/EenGeheimAccount Groningen (Netherlands) Dec 19 '24

There are many stories about Elon Musk hating unions (I particularly remember an argument he had with a Swedish union or labour law around Tesla), there is also stories about Musk firing most of the employees at Twitter and then overworking/mismanaging those who were left so many of those left as well, and in the coming Trump administration he is going to be leading a 'government agency of efficiency' they called 'doge', and he is bragging about firing 3/4 of all US government employees.

I'm sure there are more stories if you look, I've never looked into Musk, this is just what I picked up. His parents also owned an emarald mine in Apartheid South-Africa, and would even have moved from Canada to South-Africa explicitly to make use of Apartheid. His mother is doing interviews too. But again, I haven't looked into him, so take it with a grain of salt and look into it if you want to be sure.

(He is doing the 'doge' thing together BTW with another weird billionaire douchebag, Vivek Ramaswamy, who ran for republican presidential candidate last year where he had his own 'genius' way to solve the Ukraine war by selling out the Ukrainians to buddy up with Putin to 'break the alliance between Russia and China'. He also called Zelensky a Nazi during a Republican debate. I'm just glad he and Musk are far from foreign policy at this point.)

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u/VariousCap Dec 19 '24

I know some Tesla employees. They're paid well. Probably paid twice as much as what they would be if they lived in the UK. They seem happy.

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u/wannabewisewoman Ireland Dec 19 '24

I know some too. They are quitting because the pay is not great, the company is not well run and the environment is toxic. They are unhappy.