2.4 • 771 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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0:00.0 | You can call me all kinds of bad names for $137 million. |
0:03.1 | It's one more thing. |
0:05.1 | Armstrong and Getty. |
0:06.4 | One more thing. |
0:10.0 | Jack Armstrong, who once attended a Trump rally, trivialized racism today on the Armstrong and Getty show. |
0:17.0 | There you saved me the trouble of doing that. |
0:23.5 | So I'm just referring to this uh a black employee at tesla who says he was called the n word on a regular basis which obviously is not |
0:29.0 | cool and uh and i'm not in favor of and i'm not the sort of person that would ever do that |
0:34.5 | or or call anybody any bad word at all, really. |
0:43.2 | But he says he told the bosses they didn't do anything about it, Tesla, and he's just been awarded $137 million. |
0:48.5 | That's insane. |
0:50.2 | Now, $130 million of it is punitive damages. |
0:53.0 | I kind of get that in the way that we're always talking about, you know, if a pro athlete does something and they find them $5,000. |
1:03.1 | The guy makes $20 million a year. |
1:05.6 | You just find them a buck and a half for a normal person. |
1:08.8 | And Tesla is worth more than the next eight |
1:12.7 | currently, as of today, the next eight car companies added together, which includes Ford, GM, |
1:17.7 | Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen, all those companies add together, Tesla's worth more than that. |
1:20.9 | So if you actually want to punish them, you obviously can't hit them with a $500,000 fine and get |
1:26.6 | them to change their ways. So that's the punitive thing. |
1:28.9 | But the guy got $7 million for emotional distress. I'm in a fair amount emotional distress right now |
1:35.7 | over a number of things are going on in my life. I just can't imagine putting a dollar figure |
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