Elon Musk, on “Lords and Peasants”
We’re talking about unions here, and the right to organize. Musk has been quoted as saying, “I just don’t like anything which creates a lords and peasants sort of thing. I think the unions naturally try to create negativity in a company.”
Which is a really strange comment
If you want an example of who creates negativity in a company, what can possibly be more ‘lords’ than a madman genius at the top and overworked, over-stressed, over committed ‘peasant’ workers at the bottom who create the final product. It’s pretty damned lordlike (or close enough for this conversation) to come flying in on whatever occasion suits your personal whim, raise hell, have a hissy-fit, stomp around the production floor, and jump back on whichever corporate plane happens to be at hand.
No one, not a hired CEO (there are none but him) nor a corporate board of directors to whom he pays no attention, even slightly influences the elephant-in-the-room.
Move fast and break things is said to be the mantra of Zuckerber…