Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has given a warning to California’s leftist legislators, who have created a hostile business environment and enabled pandemonium on the streets. “The Golden State is frying its golden geese,” Musk said on Twitter over the weekend. At first, they were delicious, but soon there were no more golden eggs.” He also posted a piece by Matt Taibbi, who provided facts and analyses detailing how Democratic leadership and policies had ruined California. Musk definitely thinks this, as evidenced by his decision to relocate Tesla from California to Texas.
“Sooo good at first, but then no more golden eggs…” Must tweeted. “The tale also turns out to be in part about why California’s growth run, which dates back to the gold rush, was ended in 2020, when the population decreased by 182,000, resulting in the first-ever loss of a congressional seat,” Taibbi said. More revealing, over 265 corporations relocated their headquarters between 2018 and 2021, more than tripling the rate of flight in that time.”
“This is the background to sensational cases like Riot Games, Activision, and Tesla that no one told you about,” he added, citing interview sessions with current and former executives, congressional and legislative sources from both parties, past and present employment regulators, a fair number of public and private litigators with knowledge of the relevant cases, and a review of thousands of grueling pages of court records.
According to Taibbi, near the end of Barack Obama’s presidency, the West regional office of the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, or OFCCP, was asked to conduct a routine compliance review of Oracle, which employs over 130,000 people and is the world’s second-largest software company.
The OFCCP’s mandate includes, among other things, promoting diversity and prohibiting discrimination among government contractors, and Obama had a vision for the agency that included aggressively addressing the pay gap. Early in his presidency, Obama allegedly urged DOL officials, “You are in a unique position to address this problem.”
‘Why aren’t you resolving this issue?’ Obama referenced census numbers showing that women earn just 77 cents for every dollar earned by males, which he described as an “embarrassment.” “While the salary discrepancy was undoubtedly present, Obama’s assertion received two Pinocchios from future fact-checking demigod Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post.
According to Kessler, Obama was comparing apples to oranges, neglecting job and educational options (men dominated the most remunerative majors like Petroleum and Metallurgical Engineering, while women dominated the least remunerative, like Studio Arts).
When women and men with similar educational backgrounds and working in comparable occupations were compared, a wage disparity still remained, but it was significantly lower than “most imagine,” according to research by the St. Louis Fed.
“At Oracle, experts debated whether to compare men and women with comparable degrees and experience in the same area or compare men and women with similar degrees and experience in the same field, among other characteristics.”
In any event, the government announced a new method that emphasizes statistical studies more than ever before, owing to “access to more data,” to discover actionable wage disparity concerns. After Tesla CEO Elon Musk threatened to transfer the firm out of the state over its stay-at-home order, California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D) tweeted “F*ck Elon Musk” on Saturday evening.
In a follow-up tweet on Sunday, Gonzalez, who represents the southern San Diego region, stated, “California has heavily funded a firm that has consistently ignored worker safety & well-being, has participated in union-busting, and abuses public workers.” “I possibly could’ve conveyed my dissatisfaction in a more passive manner.”
No one would have cared if I had tweeted that.” Musk, who has been a prominent opponent of the state’s lockdown measures, announced on Saturday that his business will sue a San Francisco-area county over persistent production limitations. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) had issued advice for reopening the state’s industrial sector just days before but allowed certain local leaders the option of keeping some limitations in place.
Officials had “requested [Tesla] to wait” to reopen, according to Alameda County Health Officer Erica Pan, who added that the business had not yet been given “the green light” to begin the procedure. Tesla notified staff on Thursday about tentative plans to restart “limited operations” in Fremont, Calif., including returning almost 30% of workers on Friday.
“To be honest, this is the last straw,” Musk tweeted. “Tesla will immediately relocate its headquarters and future programs to Texas/Nevada. It will depend on how Tesla is treated in the future if Fremont manufacturing activity is ever kept.”
