## Whats so bad about Elon Musk?
* [Crushes unionization attempts at tesla factories, promising free frozen yogurt in return.](
https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/musk-slams-union-drive-in-email-to-employees)
* [Employees at Tesla suffer twice as many serious workplace injuries than the industry average.](
http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-injuries-rates-higher-industry-average-worksafe-2017-5)
* [Forced to pay out ~$4 Million in a class action lawsuit to 4,100 SpaceX employees who say the company refused to allow them to take legally mandated breaks during the workday, as a consequence of how the company structured its shift patterns.](
https://www.inverse.com/article/31478-spacex-settles-underpaid-workers-lawsuit-for-4-million)
* [Uses public money to fund private ventures, costing taxpayers $4.9B.](
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2016/05/09/elon-musk-tesla-crony/84169496/)
* [Attracts new investors by hyping failed projects, leading many financial investigators to consider Tesla a ponzi scheme.](
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-05/why-tesla-executives-are-fleeing)
* [Musk fires Tesla worker for testing positive for THC, then goes on the Joe Rogan show and smokes weed himself. In reality the worker was fired for her union organizing and supporting the United Autoworkers Union.](
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/405711-ex-tesla-employee-fired-for-failing-drug-test-musk-smoking-like-a-slap-in)
* [Wants to privatize space travel, leaving colonization and exploration to to the richest few.](
https://www.salon.com/2017/10/08/against-mars-a-lago-why-spacexs-mars-colonization-plan-should-terrify-you/)
* [Actively feeds his own cult of personality, as it raises his company's stock price.](
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/26/17505744/elon-musk-fans-tesla-spacex-fandom) [Criticism of Musk or Tesla is often met with toxic harrassment, especially against women.](
https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-its-like-when-elon-musks-twitter-mob-comes-after-you) [Reddit: Why is there such a big cult of personality around Musk?](
https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/8tfmm6/why_is_there_a_cult_of_personality_around_elon/) One such "Tony-Stark" from [Rolling-Stone](
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-the-architect-of-tomorrow-120850/).
* Despite rumours of Musk being a self-made mad scientist genius, he was born into a wealthy white South African family, and his [father owns Emerald mines.](
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/how-elon-musks-family-came-to-own-an-emerald-mine-2018-2) His wealth comes not from scientific discovery or innovation, but from his father funding his first business ventures, and from buying and selling companies such as PayPal, SolarCity, SpaceX, and Tesla.
* Musk takes advantage of international crises to raise Tesla's stock price. In one case, [Musk promised to "fix" Puerto Rico's power grid after it was decimated by Hurricane Maria.](
http://inthesetimes.com/article/20601/elon-musk-puerto-rico-privatization-utility-climate-solar-rossello) He deploys solar panels to a hospital, dozens of [news articles](
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/354154-musk-tesla-can-rebuild-puerto-rico-power-grid) were written about the [business-saviness of this decision](
https://www.inc.com/sally-hogshead/elon-musks-response-to-puerto-rico-is-pure-marketing-genius-should-be-required-reading.html), and the stock price soared. PR reps told Musk they don't want their power grid privatized by billionaires.
* [Despite being hailed as a leader in the fight against climate change, he donates 7x more money to Republicans.](
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elon-musk-donations-republicans_us_5b4e4bd8e4b0b15aba897481) “Is it any surprise that a union-busting capitalist donated heavily to the Republican Party? No,” said Sydney Ghazarian, of the Democratic Socialists of America’s environmental justice working group.