If Musk's goal truly is to prove the viability of electric cars, this can only be good news. It remains to be seen how long any of the big car companies continue their current electric car programs. They've come and gone before.

Too many people are not smart enough or don't care enough to consider the subtext of what is said. This leads to a country in which the words you use are more important than the meaning behind the words.

For example: Several years back I had a coworker who was verbally abusive. He was a pro at making everyone around him feel insecure and unimportant. But he was very careful with his word choice and complaints to HR were ignored. One day I had had enough of his bullshit and responded to him with, "Oh fuck off." I was written up. Now in the context of the situation, whatever it was that he said to me to trigger such a reaction was worse, and other coworkers of mine would back that up. But to the HR person, my choice of the word "fuck" trumped whatever else was going on in the situation.

Oh, and a good number of people in the US seem to take pleasure in being offended by things. Even when something shouldn't be offensive to them, they will take it as a personal attack.

It's 5. But your word choices are bad and misleading. The "large shareholder" is the CEO's brother and the lawsuit is based on more than just this decision. Even the parts of it that ARE related to the wage increase are mostly based on the guy's political views, he's essentially trying to punish his brother for doing this. I can sympathize with the employees to an extent but I think it's mostly a symptom of the system we've created around wages where everyone near the bottom is at each others throats while the rich hover above, ever increasing their wealth.

What's more interesting is the role this decision has played in the on going debate in Seattle over wages and wealth equality. The cost of housing in and around the city is increasing so quickly that the extended period of time required to reach full implementation of the $15 minimum wage is going to make the change irrelevant.

I did quit mine. I spent 4 months playing Planetside 2 for 8+ hours a day, everyday. My schoolwork suffered, my relationships suffered, my health suffered. Then I just quit. Flat out, one day I didn't do it anymore.

Since then my life has been so much better, I moved back out of my mom's house, made a bunch of new friends, got a girlfriend. None of that would have happened if I hadn't quit. I still think about the game from time to time but it's not worth it.