For decades, the 14th floor of GM's Detroit headquarters was its own separate world. Executives arrived through a private basement elevator. Meals were catered in a private dining room. No one else was invited. A 1993 Seattle Times investigation called it "the ultimate symbol of power at the world's largest company."
Tesla didn't just build a different culture. It built one inside GM's old factory. In 2010, Tesla bought the Fremont plant where GM and Toyota had jointly operated a car factory for 26 years, then ran it completely differently.
While every major automaker gave line workers wages and maybe a pension, Tesla gave them stock, shares that vest over time, across every level of the company, including people on the floor running assembly equipment. Electrek noted in 2020 that stock grants for all workers, factory staff included, were rare enough in auto that it was worth calling out.
The math starts in 2012. Tesla's stock sat at around $2.26 per share then, once you account for two stock splits since. Four years earlier, the company had nearly run out of money, and Musk funded it personally to keep it alive. Workers who took those early grants and held them saw the stock hit $410 at the 2021 peak. A dollar of Tesla stock from 2012 grew 181 times over in nine years. CNN confirmed Musk's account: some Fremont production workers became millionaires from those grants.
Musk wasn't running any of this from a separate floor. During Model 3 production hell in 2018, Tesla was fighting to hit 5,000 cars a week while barely managing 2,000. He moved to the factory and slept there for days. "I was wearing the same clothes for five days," he told Bloomberg Businessweek. "My credibility, the credibility of the whole team, was at stake."
Tesla paid out $2 billion in stock grants to its employees in 2024, from engineering to the factory floor, at every level. The 14th floor at GM was a monument to who owned the company. A Tesla stock grant in Fremont in 2012 was a monument to who built it.
The Romans built fish ponds on the coast 2,000 years ago. They're still there, still filling with seawater. Reality has a way of challenging climate narratives.
Almost 0 women work 60+ hours a week which is required to be in this list.
Women’s IQ is not as variable as men’s and is centered around the mean. Which means the 140+ IQ required to be in this list is 47:1 men.
Women focus on people. Men focus on things. As a result a woman doing her job can affect a few dozen people an hour. A man focusing on things can build something that benefits a billion people an hour.
Of course this will offend leftists and feminists but it is none the less true and explains exactly why there are 0 and everything that powers civilization was invented, brought to market and made successful by men and that won’t change any time soon if ever.
I've traveled to 26 countries in my life, and I've done a lot of crazy shit.
One of the rules I've followed—which has kept me from even sustaining a single notable INJURY during these countless shenanigans—is to never let myself get into a situation where my life or wellbeing is put into the hands of nons.
Even before going down the race/IQ rabbit hole...I just inherently knew that outdoorsy White dudes with beards & flannels are the only ones you can fully trust for these things.
This video proves exactly why.
If you want to do adrenaline junkie stuff, do it in Whistler 🇨🇦, Queenstown 🇳🇿, or Interlaken 🇨🇭 (and do it ASAP for those first 2 before they get overrun by Indians)
If you want to take some risks and still live a long, healthy life, you MUST be racist, or you are playing with fire.
"You need to let 1 BILLION immigrants into your country because your ancestors colonized us n' sheeeeeit".
Nah, fuck you. Reject generational guilt. You no longer get to weaponize the past.
Manhood rituals have been used for thousands of years across the world to help boys become men. The men of tribes would take young boys away from their mothers and traumatize them until their feminine frame shattered. They would break the boys until they became numb to emotions. After the manhood initiation, the young men could handle 100x more emotional stress without fear, doubt and anxiety. The problem with modern men is they remain boys because their feminine frame was never shattered.
Jimmy Carr nailed something a lot of us feel but can’t explain.
We’re living better than 99.9% of humans who ever walked the earth, hot showers, modern medicine, endless entertainment, kids that actually survive infancy, yet so many of us feel miserable.
He calls it “life dysmorphia.” We get used to how good we have it (the hedonic treadmill), then compare ourselves to everyone else and tank our own happiness.
As he puts it: happiness = quality of life minus envy.
Marcus Aurelius put it perfectly: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
When was the last time you caught yourself feeling unhappy despite objectively having it pretty damn good?
@mario4thenorth@EricDLombardi Many "centrist" conservatives are merely liberals in disguise. Socially liberal is still liberal, even if you're "fiscally conservative."
They'd rather shoot the country and party in the foot than be lambasted as a "Nazi" by literal communists and "Canadian" foreigners
European countries will move very quickly from “Please leave” to “We’re not asking anymore”, to eventually the complete removal of even the option to flee.
500+ job applications.
Zero interviews.
A civil engineering degree. A Canadian project management diploma. Relevant experience.
And still… nothing.
This isn't just one story.
Canadians with experience can't find work.
Newcomers with skills can't break in.
Young graduates are stuck.
The labour market is upside down, and we're slowly letting talent sit on the sidelines and wither away.
Something is clearly broken.
The medical system in France is unbelievably cucked.
They threatened to kick me out of the hospital for merely saying I didn't want my newborn to be fried under blue light for 8 hours a day.
Nurses monitoring me all day as if they're working for the Politburo. Asking my relatives behind my back if I am "some kind of extremist".
A nurse even threatened me with their "social services" FORCEFULLY taking my kid away.
Most people in this country (and elsewhere) are of astounding bad will, and it really highlights why a country like France has sunken into the pathetic depths it has.
We treat the natives pretty good in Canada.
When this country is 90% visible minority the natives won’t get the same respect that white people give them.
The indigenous should support remigration for this reason.
Immigrants have no shared history with them like whites do.
The biggest scandal of our lifetime Sen. Ron Johnson “the Covid shot adverse event cover up”
The Government knew and the US media didn’t report it.
In the UK the BBC, ITV, Sky, GB news and C4 all knew. The Times, Telegraph, Mail, Sun and Guardian knew.
Because I told them in 2022
Jeff Bezos bought a superyacht.
Mukesh Ambani built Antilia.
Zuckerberg built a Hawaii bunker.
Elon sold all his mansions, lives in a 375 sq ft prefab box worth $50,000 near a rocket launch site in Texas.
And just became the world's first trillionaire.
Consumption vs Creation.
The builder always wins.
In the wake of decolonization, we have spent more on aid to Africa than it would have cost to start multiple settlements on Mars
We could have had bases on the moon, settlements on Mars, and a thriving Rhodesia
Instead we have none of that, and billions of dollars sent to the Dark Continent every year to do no good whatsoever
We used to live in a world where if you quit your job you could get a new one in a month or two, if you got kicked out of your rental you could find one in a few weeks, if your relationship broke down you could find someone else without too much effort.
This flexibility kept people mentally free.
Now we live in a world where if you lose your job you might be unemployed for 6-12 months, if you get kicked out of your rental you might become homeless, and if your relationship breaks down that could be it forever thanks to dating apps, feminism and culture wars.
The left calls this progress: this is the world they are happy with. Flood the country with millions of immigrants, ignore the economic consequences, and make sure only the 'correct' views (theirs) are allowed - to hell with the consequences.
For everyone else, this is no way to build a future.
If the switching costs of everything approach 'infinity' you become a slave.
You can't quit a legitimately shit job because that might be the last one you ever have.
You can't take a break because if you come back you won't find a rental.
You can't quit a toxic relationship because that might be the last one you ever have - forged during a world prior to the culture wars, and political nonsense infesting everyone's mindset and values.
People vastly underestimate how dysfunctional our entire society has become.