Elon Musk says Americans ‘are trying to avoid going to work at all,’ unlike Chinese workers who ‘will be burning the 3am oil’

Elon Musk says Americans ‘are trying to avoid going to work at all,’ unlike Chinese workers who ‘will be burning the 3am oil’

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he expects China to produce "some very strong companies," due to the country's workforce. "There's just a lot of super-talented hardworking people in China who strongly believe in manufacturing," Musk said in on Tuesday. "They won't just be burning the midnight oil, they will be burning the 3 a.m. oil," he continued. "They won't even leave the factory type of thing, whereas in America people are trying to avoid going to work at all." Musk himself famously slept on the floor of Tesla's Fremont factory during " " for the Model 3. "I wanted my circumstances to be worse than anyone else at the company," he told Bloomberg in 2018. "Whenever they felt pain, I wanted mine to be worse." Last month, workers at Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory were reportedly as production resumed following a three-week shutdown. A memo reported by Bloomberg indicated that each worker would be provided with a sleeping bag and an air mattress and expected to work 12-hour shifts with one day off per week. Workplace tides may be shifting in China however, after tech workers there protested the "996" schedule that had many working 72 hours per week, .