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Originally Posted by redpoint5
If I wanted to make a commodity successfully, I'd build it in China and name the products "Chicago" or some such non-China sounding name.
I'm still amazed that Musk managed to make cars in about the highest rent place in the world and hasn't gone under yet.
He threatened to leave, and I always wonder why he began there in the first place. If anyone in a public position dropped F bombs on me, I'd happily remove myself from their presence (and economic benefits).
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Musk is in California because he got the old NUMMI (GM / Toyota) plant for almost free.
He also pays his assembly workers well below the industry wage ($17-$21 an hour) in a place were the minimum wage is $13 an hour. Honda pays $17-$28 per hour + platinum benefits in Alabama.