Elon Musk has blasted America’s poor work ethic and praised toiling Chinese staff who stay at the factory ‘burning the 3am oil’.
The Tesla CEO, who once slept on his Fremont factory floor during production of the company’s Model 3 car, said Americans are ‘trying to avoid going to work at all’ compared to their Chinese counterparts.
Speaking in an interview with the Financial Times, he said: ‘I think there will be some very strong companies coming out of China.
‘There’s just a lot of super talented and hardworking people in China that strongly believe in manufacturing.
‘And they won’t just be burning the midnight oil. They’ll be burning the 3am oil. So they won’t even leave the factory type of thing.
‘Whereas in America, people are trying to avoid going to work at all.’