If I was openly criticizing the boss my expectation would be I was putting my continued employment at risk. That ain’t rocket science.
Speaking up against your employer should not threaten your job. That's how you get an echo chamber of horrible decisions made by the people who just so happen to sit at the top. Especially in a company run by someone who claims to "seek truths" like Musk. However, it certainly would not make you popular with the true believers in the room. You would definitely feel the discontent amongst your peers in a conviction le…
if you mean this as advice, ok, but if you mean it as "this needs to be a law", what are you even talking about, authoritarian much?
>That's how you get an echo chamber of horrible decisions made by the people who just so happen to sit at the top.
firing employees for speaking out might get you, the employer, an echo chamber, but perhaps for your product an echo chamber is the business strategy you chose. Steve Jobs was famous for his attention to detail, reinforcing and staying on message, "hold it up just this way, show everybody, look how thin it is! echo that or don't work here." Freedom needs to include the freedom to set a strategy and stick to it, and if setting the strategy is not your job but your dream, find that job for yourself, don't think you should get paid to undermine it for somebody else.