As Novye Izvestia has already reported, Elon Musk became the first person in history with a fortune of $ 300 billion: now the famous engineer and businessman owns $ 302.4 billion (~ 20 trillion rubles). However, despite this, even Musk is not going smoothly - in America they began to press him little by little, reports the Tolkovatel blog. And for the cause.
As you know, according to the plan for the development of infrastructure and a green economy presented by the government of Joe Biden (an investment of $ 1.75 trillion has been allocated for it), only those companies that have trade unions receive benefits.
So, one of Musk's companies - Tesla could claim in this case for $ 12.5 thousand benefits for each of its cars. Alas, Tesla prohibits trade unions, and in addition, the employment contracts of the company's workers are prohibited from giving any comments to the media, including on working conditions and trade union activities.
In March 2021, the National Labor Relations Board, after several trials, seemed to put an end to Musk's fight against unions after Tesla fired activist Richard Ortiz, who tried to create a union at an electric car assembly plant.
The council decided to reinstate him at work, and also ordered Musk to delete his tweets attacking unions. Tesla will have to renegotiate employee confidentiality agreements, as labor laws "protect employees when they talk to the media about working conditions, labor disputes or other terms of employment (not trade secrets).
Experts believe that these measures will finally introduce Tesla into the market economy, making it clear to Musk that federal preferences are ending.
It is no secret that his business has largely grown on the orders of the Pentagon. For example, by 2006, more than half of the company's budget had been replenished with state subsidies: of $ 678 million, $ 100 million was invested by Musk, 200 from pre-launch orders, 278 from NASA and 100 from the US Air Force (Pentagon ). Moreover, NASA and the US Department of Defense, as government customers, initially pay for the full cost of reusable rockets to another company belonging to Mask, SpaceX, while it provides commercial customers with large discounts on its launch services and therefore reusable carriers are much cheaper for them. Thus, SpaceX's success story is inextricably linked to both explicit and implicit forms of government support...