Elon Musk escalates rhetoric against remote workers. It's not just a productivity issue, in his view, it's a moral issue. He proceeds to wag his finger at the "laptop class", and accuses them of being like Marie Antoinette in her fake quote "let them eat cake".
What's ironic is that while Musk is trying to stir up envy against the "laptop class" everything he says about the "laptop class" more accurately applies to the billionaire class. Remote workers are not just sitting back and ordering others to do our bidding. That's what billionaires do. I really have to wonder if Musk using remote workers as a proxy to buffer himself and other centibillionaires from class consciousness?
Remote workers need to fight back against this rhetoric. Remote work is work. We are working class. And not all of us are well paid. And if we were forced back in the office we wouldn't get to work in shiny tesla factories, most of us would end up back in dreary cubicles or panopticonic "open office" cube farms. But I guess according to Musk that's our "moral" duty?
