Tesla CEO Elon Musk has the flexibility to regulate the dialog about him with a single tweet, even when the information is a sticking level about his therapy of workers. That’s why this week he’s managed to show a narrative about him having kids with a subordinate at one in all his corporations into one about his unusual fixation with declining start charges.

On Thursday, Insider launched a report primarily based on court docket paperwork that confirmed that Musk had slept with one in all his high executives at Neuralink, Shivon Zilis, who then gave start to twins final November. 

How did the CEO of such main corporations as Tesla and SpaceX reply? “A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far.”

On Friday, Musk out of the blue introduced he desires to provide again to workers—properly, a minimum of to all these present or anticipating dad and mom. He tweeted that he can be rising childcare advantages at his corporations, which embody Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and Boring Company. Details will “hopefully” be introduced subsequent month.

The tweet was a response to the thread about his effort to “help the underpopulation crisis.” The world’s richest man (, the one who has sufficient cash to truly make a distinction on the earth) doesn’t assume local weather change is the largest risk to civilization, however as a substitute mentioned “a collapsing birth rate” is what is going to really convey us down.

And in fact, his tweet is brief on particulars about how the Musk Foundation will help these dad and mom. Like a number of main corporations, Tesla has mentioned it could pay journey prices for workers’ out-of-state abortions after the Supreme Court struck down Roe V. Wade. That determination may make issues tough for him since his Texas Tesla hub is correct smack dab in the course of one of many longest ongoing fights over abortion access.

So his fixation about declining start charges and the utter want to regulate the narrative appear to go hand in hand, and a few are shopping for into it. Musk is 51 and Zilis is 36, although what could also be extra at play right here is the difficult energy discrepancy between a girl, even a high govt, and her boss.

However, speculating concerning the interpersonal relationship between two grown folks gained’t get anybody wherever. If solely Musk believed the identical. A SpaceX worker and flight attendant on one in all Musk’s flights alleged the CEO uncovered his penis to her and propositioned her for intercourse. Musk responded to these allegations with “If I were inclined to engage in sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in my entire 30-year career that it comes to light.” He later tweeted, “Finally, we get to use Elongate as a scandal name.”

And most likely extra vital is how this displays on his corporations. If Musk says he desires to help these underneath him, then he ought to completely assist dad and mom. That’s what any boss ought to do. Though he appears to be far more sparing in his help for his workers in different components of their jobs. He has totally rejected calls from workers for a earn a living from home coverage, and former stories have proven his corporations have an abnormally high turnover rate. SpaceX workers not too long ago wrote an open letter to firm executives saying they disliked how Musk’s public conduct mirrored on them and the remainder of their firm. How did Musk and his executives reply? Space X fired a number of of them.