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One day he will catch an employee stealing, fly into a rage and fire the entire workforce. He'll lock the iron gates to the factory and sequester himself from the public eye for several decades sparking all kinds of rumours about his fate. Then one day he'll announce a competition for children to win golden tickets to visit his once grand factory and we'll finally discover the real story of Elon Musk and his Gigafactory.

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There a was /r/WritingPrompts thread about this. Here's a nice story:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/6i5aef/wp_a...

> Then one day he'll announce a competition for children to win golden tickets to visit his grand factory

I feel like this is exactly the kind of quirky thing he'd do anyway, without all that negative stuff.

"Every car has a chance of having a winning ticket in the glove compartment"

The only problem is that then they actually have to manufacture enough cars to drive a competition like that.

Not to mention the lobbying costs of making states change their driving age limits so that children can buy cars.

When the self driving cars take over, there’s no reason not to sell to children! Think of all the money to be made!

They're producing 7000 Model 3 a week. That's more than any other electric car currently, as far as I know.

They aren't even sustainably producing the 5k/week that they said they would be doing a year ago.

In both 2016 and 2017, they said they'd get to a sustainable 5k by the end of 2017. At the end of 2017, they pushed that to Q1/2018. In Q1/2018, they pushed that to Q2. In Q2 they give up on the sustainable part of that and just said they'd do 5k. At the beginning of Q3/2018 they said they'd get to a sustainable 6k/week in Q3. By the end of Q3 they still weren't able to sustain 5k/week. As we approach the end of Q4, everything indicates that they still can't sustain 5k/week.

Do You have a source for that number, that sounds way too high.

My bad, they were pushing for it [0]. Actual number according to Bloomberg is 4k [1].

[0] https://electrek.co/2018/11/15/tesla-model-3-production-7000... [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/

The quarter is almost over, we'll have hard numbers soon.

And he'll still blame the SEC for him not making money

I'm expecting him to announce that he's bought an old extinct hollowed out volcano and is recruiting for goons.

Fuck, I love this so much because it feels realer than the reality that is happening.

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