bkp_duke
Well-Known Member
Sometimes I marvel at the blatant lack of empathy that this board can express.
20k employees work for Tesla in California. 7k just at Fremont.
If you got some money from TSLA, it's thanks to them: Elon, for all his genius, could do *anything* alone by himself.
Luckily for everyone,
I still believe that Elon has more respect than you for his workers.
Whatever, take the holier-than-though attitude elsewhere.
I run my own company, with employees in 6 states. CA is by far the the worst to deal with of all of them. I have employees in CA only because I have to, and I keep the head count in that state at a minimum. I'm surprised, as a businessman, that Elon even setup shop for manufacturing in CA. I would have thought he would have kept design/programming in CA and then put manufacturing somewhere more friendly.
There is a reason, a good one, that CA has been bleeding manufacturing jobs to other states, and the current issues with Alameda county are a prime example of that.
EDIT - I feel for the employees, but that's not reason enough to make bad business decisions. And there is a strong argument that staying in CA is a bad business decision.