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Cruxifux ,

I hate that becoming a certain level of rich can guarantee that you will never not be rich even if you’re the dumbest motherfucker that ever tried to do business.

Zetta ,

Maybe it doesn’t reach your criteria of a “certain level”, but there’s definitely stories of people winning significant amounts of money in the lottery and being broke years later because they are morons.

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

Right. You do have to still be smart enough in some way to retain the money/power. Or lucky/connected enough (daddy is watching out that dumb-as-rocks junior doesn’t blow all of his $100m, etc)

barsquid ,

You need to reach the level and get the nepotism engine to collect you. A lotto winner could probably attend an event and sieg heil in front of Peter Thiel. That’s like calling a taxi into nepotism. Typical lotto winners just spend it all frivolously instead.

cuerdo ,

It doesn’t, Cris Rock explained it very well:

Kobe Bryant is rich, he gets a paycheck of 100 mil per year.

Now, wealthy is the guy that signs that check.

mPony ,

Chris Rock is a pretty smart motherfucker.

rezifon ,

We should make sure he gets the big piece of chicken

Cruxifux ,

You’re not seriously comparing a lotto winner to someone with global oligarch levels of wealth right now, are you? I have more respect for your intelligence than that my man.

Kazumara ,

Depends on how you count it. Would you consider Steve Jobs to be rich? Seems to me that he managed to find a way to graduate from his status as a rich person with his stupidity.

Cruxifux ,

I mean he was rich, wasn’t he? Did he die poor somehow? I don’t know enough about him.

Kazumara ,

No no, I’m just saying sometimes they are dumb enough to kill themselves. That’s one way they sometimes manage to get out being rich 😂

Cheems ,
@Cheems@lemmy.world avatar

I mean that was just hubris

nilloc ,

Yes. Terminal hubris, society needs better options than relying on it to take care of our inequality problem though.

Eat the rich.

saltesc ,

Really? It’s pa-ywalled, but based on just the title; really?

It’s not the poor reputation Teslas have at being cars? Recalls, performance, ongoing costs, longevity, manufacturing quality…etc. But, it’s X instead?

Jimbabwe ,

The cars are actually great, unfortunately

nokturne213 ,

Are they though?

Viking_Hippie ,

Nah. They’re pretty and quick, but they have the price tag of a brand new Jaguar and the build quality of a 1980s Yugo.

nokturne213 ,

So their build quality has improved recently?

Rayspekt ,

Why not both?

wildcardology ,

Hmmm, I smell a lawsuit.

bappity ,
@bappity@lemmy.world avatar

yes… hahaha… YES!

NoiseColor ,

I think he should sue the EU customers! It’s unfair their political beliefs are hurting his business.

Empricorn ,

Good idea. Then, this entitled, out-of-touch crybaby can sue the kid that took his juice in Kindergarten!

HootinNHollerin ,

Also in America. Here in California I know several people that sold their Tesla because of lonE skuM and many more who wouldn’t buy because of him. I myself have told Tesla recruiters in two occasions that I’d never work for that piece of shit

RestrictedAccount ,

Recruiters??!?!!?!

Why in the world would he possibly need to recruit people:

  • To come live in abject fear of his every whim?
  • To be expected to work 24 hours a day seven days a week?
  • To not be able to have a family?

All the best talent will be lining up for some of that!!!

At this point having Tesla on your résumé means you couldn’t do better.

Wispy2891 ,

“yes, i would like to relocate and dedicate my life to a company that might fire the entire team just because one day the CEO snorted too much ketamine”

st3ph3n ,

I was in the market for an EV shortly after he took over twitter. I ruled Tesla out because I do not want to be seen to support that douche in any way.

IphtashuFitz ,

I actually bought my Tesla about a year before he took over Twitter. The supercharger network has proven itself on a few long trips, which is the main reason I’m holding onto it for now.

I can pretty much guarantee that my next car will be an EV but definitely not a Tesla. Since virtually all EV manufacturers have announced support for J3400 in the next few years I figure there will be a handful of decent options for me to choose from in 5-10 years.

st3ph3n ,

They’re certainly massively ahead of the competition with their charging network, I won’t argue with that. I’m fortunate enough that I can charge at home and that’s pretty much all I have ever done. I have not needed to do a cross-country road trip.

spamfajitas ,

I’m one. When he moved Tesla engineers to work on Twitter and then went on an unhinged anti-Trans rant in the middle of an earnings call, I shopped around and traded in my model 3. I always assumed the major selling point of a Tesla was the software, but he keeps fucking with the people who make it.

candybrie ,

I think a lot of it was the charging network. What happened with that again? Oh yeah. He fired that whole team.

PunchingWood ,

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    protist , (edited )

    Especially now that a lot of countries are starting to notice the drain on energy networks.

    Lmao

    But I doubt they’re really “struggling”.

    You don’t have to sit there and imagine things, because they are a publicly traded company…

    It’s clear Musk’s politics have turned off a ton of potential customers worldwide. Tesla sales are falling off, while eg the Hyundai Ioniq is setting sales records in the US

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    protist ,

    Tesla’s market share in Europe declined from 27.8% to 19.9% year over year as of this past March. Tesla’s sales in Europe fell 36% while BMW and Volvo had 60% and 70% growth in EV sales over the same period, respectively.

    whichev.net/…/tesla-tops-european-car-sales-chart…

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    protist ,

    Would-be Tesla buyers snub company as Musk’s reputation dips

    Infynis ,
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    When every other company manufacturing the same thing as you is making massive gains, because the whole market is expanding, and you’re suddenly posting losses, that’s going to raise so questions

    MerchantsOfMisery ,

    Is it weird that a part of me wishes I was as confident in myself being right about stuff as you are about yourself?

    takeda ,

    LOL, seems like you are only are aware of Tesla losses and try to explain it that it is because a power grid can’t handle it.

    In reality it is that Tesla is losing customers which are fleeing to other manufacturers.

    As for the energy consumption, for example in California 25% of new car sales are BHEV. Currently electric cars use 1% of the power and the estimates are that by 2035 (when sales of new ICE vehicles will be banned) this will go to 4%.

    Viking_Hippie ,

    Since these cars easily take up the same as an entire household overnight.

    You mean the same as the household take up overnight where most are sleeping and have turned almost everything off? That’s not actually a lot…

    CileTheSane ,
    @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

    “lots of people are buying Tesla’s”

    “People are stepping away from fully electric vehicles.”

    Which is it? Are Tesla’s strong or weak? Or are we somehow in a situation where EVs are weak and Tesla is strong?

    dogsnest ,
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    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/26be62a4-1d05-4fb4-a230-b894af274536.png

    Magister ,
    @Magister@lemmy.world avatar

    Enough about this douche canoe, can he disappear from social sphere? I don’t want to hear about this guy rant every day for the next 50 years !

    cyborganism ,

    Which one?

    Empricorn ,

    Yes.

    Magister ,
    @Magister@lemmy.world avatar

    You hit it right!

    OhStopYellingAtMe ,
    @OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world avatar

    There is literally an avenue in which we can put him on a rocket and send him to Mars. I am all for it.

    Tyfud ,

    No, because he’s rich and influencial and keeps saying and doing shit that gets him front page in the news. That’s the way the world works unfortunately.

    Lucidlethargy ,

    I think we’d all love that. I genuinely wish the asshole would take a trip to see the titanic.

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