Exactly my thought as well. Innovative tech companies who are solving problems never solved before don’t want mindless yes-men drones, they want innovative, confident free-thinkers who aren’t afraid to introduce new ideas or criticize bad ones. I thought that’s what kind of companies Musk ran...
if you’re trying to encourage people to do their job without ruffling any feathers, don’t use the scene from The Matrix that demonstrates how modern work environments are designed to break your spirit and encourage blind conformity and obedience. Because that inevitably leads to Neos ascending...
Well.
Elon Musk's SpaceX fires at least five for letter criticizing him
Can't say I'm surprised.
This kind of attitude to criticism stifles innovation, and lets objectively bad choices through the pipeline (like the steering yoke on a car without drive-by-wire or an appropriate steering ratio).
There is a lot of anti-worker sentiment in this thread and a lot of apologism for a man who routinely mistreats employees and others in his personal life. Elon is a liability that will have to be dealt with eventually in all of his companies. He’s unstable and polarizing and these attributes...