‘Shark Tank’ star Kevin O’Leary defends Elon Musk’s nearly $ 300 billion fortune – and predicts many workers will not return to offices
- Kevin O’Leary defended Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s nearly $ 300 billion fortune this week.
- The “Shark Tank” investor predicted a permanent shift from offices to teleworking.
- O’Leary said the demand for employees with digital skills has increased thanks to the pandemic.
“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary defended Tesla CEO Elon Musks massive fortune in an interview on “Real Time with Bill Maher” Saturday.
The O’Leary Funds chief – whose nickname is “Mr Wonderful” – also attributed the recent rise in asset prices to aggressive fiscal stimulus, and predicted that many people who work from home during the pandemic will not return to the offices of their companies.
Here are O’Leary’s seven best quotes from the interview, easily edited and compressed for clarity:
“You think about what that man has accomplished and how he has changed everyone’s lives. The space, what he’s done with electric cars, making the economy greener. Should we punish him for that? Is he a bad guy?” – defend Elon Musk’s fortune of about $ 300 billion.
“When he dies, we’ll take it all back anyway. If you want to speed it up, should we arrest him, shoot him and take all the money now?” – rejects the idea that Musk is too rich.
“You print $ 3.5 trillion, put it in a helicopter and throw it down in the country, you’m damn right, the stock market will rise. The same is the watch market, the wine market, the car market. exploded on the upside because money is free. ” – discusses the impact of government stimulus on asset prices during the pandemic.
4. “They never come back. They have proven that they can use technology to do their job successfully, creatively, functionally, productively. They want to stay home, raise their children, take care of their elderly parents. In fact, if you say to them, ‘You have to come back to the office, that’s our new mandate,’ they will say, ‘No, I’m just quitting and working somewhere else. to argue that the emigration of workers from offices represents a permanent shift to teleworking.
5. “Videographers, photographers and animators used to be considered starving artists; they made no pre-pandemic. They are now the most coveted individuals as the whole economy has gone digital.”
“These people no longer want to work in a cubicle. In fact, they do not want to work at all. They want to be entrepreneurs. They used to earn $ 30,000, now they earn $ 150,000. A huge transition is happening.”
7. “I will always tell students that if you go to college and get yourself $ 100,000 in debt, make sure you are an engineer, engineer or engineer, and at night you take some engineering courses – everything else is worthless I have it not like that anymore. ” – recognition of the increase in compensation for people with digital skills.
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