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0 pointsJumpinJack_Cash3y ago0 comments

Point is that you first sign off the effing self-driving car, then you get your effing money.

That is what we used to do in America, since the days of JD Rockefeller, Henry Ford...but also Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and Larry Ellison. I mean I used Windows before Gates became richest man in the world and so did hundreds of millions of people.

Musk got to #1 by selling go karts to a handful of rich people and promises of future selfdriving and total domination of the EV sector when EVs are not even sure to be the winner tech in the decarbonization of cars

The vast majority of Americans have never even set foot in a Tesla.

You seem to condone the poker game that Wall St. has become, I don't agree with that because entrepreneurship shouldn't be about bluffing and then offloading your hand to a bigger fool. We do that in Vegas, like men where at least you have to look in the eyes the dude you are screwing over.

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philippejara3y ago· 1 in thread

so what do you propose is to be done? you simply stop people from buying tesla stock so that the price doesn't go up and he doesn't get as much money? Seriously i'm really struggling to understand what you are proposing here.

badpun3y ago

You stop the fed from printing so much money. I mean, right now it's too late, but for the future, it would be a good policy.

TylerE3y ago

> The vast majority of Americans have never even set foot in a Tesla.

Not so sure about that. Model 3s seem to rapidly replacing Civics as the Uber car of choice.

dmix3y ago

How do you expect self driving cars, or any extremely hard technology, to come about then without long term risk capital via public/private investment? Just pure R&D working out of universities and gov labs? Let them perfect it and only then try to raise capital? Go back to the Rockefeller days before there was venture capital and mature public markets?

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