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Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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“If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”

Well that sounds terrifying!

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact is they can get other jobs.

I'm guessing many of his US staff are stuck at Twitter due to the visa rules. They're basically very well-paid slaves, and he knows it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No doubt someone is in that situation. But I don’t think most people know how rare H1-Bs are. Only 65k are issued annually in the US, which has a total employed workforce of 157 million people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah cause the most common job is truck driver.