Federal labor regulators allege that SpaceX illegally fired employees who publicly criticized Elon Musk, the exploration company’s founder and CEO.
According to allegations laid out in a complaint filed Wednesday by a regional office of the National Labor Relations Board, SpaceX wrongfully terminated eight employees and interrogated dozens more in 2022 after the workers wrote and shared an open letter calling for the company’s leadership to condemn Musk’s “disparaging” and “sexually charged” comments on social media.
The letter criticized SpaceX management for what the authors called the company’s failure to tackle a culture of “sexism, harassment and discrimination” within its workplace, the NLRB said in the complaint. Separately, they asked SpaceX to “condemn” Musk’s “harmful Twitter behavior.”
The philanthropy has nothing to do with PR. It’s tax evasion.
Tax avoidance is certainly one factor, but to dismiss old people’s desire for legacy would be dishonest. If it was just for tax reasons, the person’s name wouldn’t be requested to be included in the philanthropic venture.
Example:
It could have been called the “New York Cancer Center” but it wasn’t.
That’s as much just ego, honestly.
Like how Trump needs to put his name on literally every single thing that is his.
Ego is to Charmander as Legacy is to Charizard. Legacy is the superpowered version of ego.