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Elon Musk - Robber Baron

Elise Moury - 2026

Created on September 22, 2023

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Elon Musk: Robber Baron

Unjustly Firing & Mocking Employees

During the third week of Musk owning Twitter, he unjustly fired around 7,500 employees. One of whom reached out on Twitter responding to a tweet from Musk expressing frustartions with Musk. He was later fired and Musk tweeted out "I would like to apologize for firing these geniuses. Their immense talent will no doubt be of great use elsewhere."

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/apologise-for-firing-these-geniuses-elon-musk-takes-a-swipe-at-sacked-twitter-engineers-welcomes-pranksters-ligma-johnson/articleshow/95546303.cms?from=mdr

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/technology/elon-musk-twitter-fired-criticism.html

Donating Money

According to Forbes Magazine, Elon Musk has a philtrophy score of 1 which menas that he: "Has given away less than 1% of his wealth." With a networth of 249.8B and owing 6 companies including Tesla and SpaceX and gaining millions every day, Musk should be donating more monrey to charites and giving back to people who are less fourtnate.

https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk/?list=billionaires&sh=6449eeb97999 https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferwang/2020/09/08/the-new-forbes-philanthropy-score-how-we-ranked-each-forbes-400-billionaire-based-on-their-giving/?sh=7d8165d19eba

Harmful Air Pollutants

Pollution

During Feburary of 2022, Tesla was fined $275,000 by the U.S. Enviromental Protection Agency for violating air pollution regulations. Tesla violated multiple Clean Air Act regulations. "In an acnnoucemnt on Tuesday, the EPA said Tesla failed to develop or implmenet a plan to minimize hazardous air polluntants emmissions from storage and when mixin materials used in vehicle coating." The Clean Air Act helps keep toxic emissions down so air pollutants are reduced. Tesla failed to implement a plan that reduces their carbon footprint and reduces the amount of chemicals they release into the air that affect people's eyes, noses, and throats.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/environment/595455-tesla-to-pay-penalty-for-clean-air-act-violations/