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What is Musk actually doing? Tesla is a 20 years old company, supposedly decades ahead of everybody and still hasn't matched the number of Porsches on the road.

And I said Porsche. The quintessential luxury brand, not Ford or GM. Yes I know that people love their Porsches and are willing to spend money to keep them around and also collect them, but still it's crazy that a company which should be the backbone of the industrial economy still hasn't matched the number of Porsches.

Twitter is a Tesla without the shameless hype and constant astroturfing and manufactured consensus.

We are all Parag Agrawal on this blessed day.

The good thing of standing up to bullies in a privileged place like SF is that there is essentially no downside, only missed upside.

Also talking about missed upside...once your net worth is 10M (Parag should be there I think) you have "fuck you money" special powers over everybody including people like Musk, Bezos, Gates etc.

There is no amount of money that would convince a mentally stable and financially secure person to deal with these bullies bullshit.

Show them the finger without looking back, never love your passions more than you love yourself and your mental health.

> It's hard to run your own porn business if you don't rely on a major company

It's hard to run your own porn business even if you are a major company.

People act extremely sensitive about their fetishes and think they are connoisseurs. but the reality is that 1000 porn movies in the 70s and 80s could satisfy jackoff habits of the whole global population for the forseeble future.

The marginal value of more porn being produced is essentially zero

OnlyFans is very present in culture and has a monstre evaluation, but if you look at revenues you'd be looking at the sum of some 300 big gas stations. Also OF is not a porn website it's an online GFE service.

> No way. Many people start with no plane. When they have a plane or two they face the systematic attack of people like you. I am still to see why that happens. Not all rich are good. But not all rich are bad. Same for normal people.

PowerBall winner start with no nothing, it's the same thing.

> So yes, you are right. You are telling me they are capable of creating value and things people are willing to pay for even if they were stolen and you use this sad argument of "they have too much" as an argument for stealing the earnings of people who create value in some way or another, like it or not.

Absolutely not, the Pension funds will install new CEOs which are MBAs who'd be happy with a 15M/yr salary, and of course the company will keep winning and prospering. We have proof of this. Goldman Sachs is not owned by Goldman and Sachs...JPMorgan is not owned by John PierPont Morgan and on and on. The outsted billionaire can now enjoy his retirement with his 999M. Poor thing! The public gets to enjoy the exta trillions of dollars which the measure would inject into pension funds.

It's a free meal , in fact due to the high concentration of wealth nobody would cry for billionaires. If millionaires and non-billionaire rich people are even half as smart as you say they are they are not so crazy to think that them with their net worth of 9-10M can one day become a billionaire and thus be impacted by such measure.

> Regarding that you can transfer all <to a cause you see fair> and does not make a difference does not mean it is fair to steal the money to who is making it in absence of coercion, violence or collusion, which are the ways to cheat, as an example, when the state raises you taxes 10% or puts a new tax and you can do nothing.

Extreme luck has always been punished or halved by taxation, except in modern day America

So did Led Zeppelin but nobody stood on stage for 4 hours every night like them.

It's all about building up on other people's previous work.

If you think your actions can change the perception of 400M people and their 90% approval rating of the military...then what else should be added.

The approval rating didn't bulge when the aforementioned organization sent thousands to die for essentially nothing (if you believe the US military miscalculated the war on terror) or oil (if you believe the war on terror was a subtle ploy to get in there and be in control of oil)

Didn't evne bulge after Abu Graib...so?

> And those companies add value, otherwise the stocks value will be zero.

Those riches were made by being the captain of a plane which had an incredible luck to have a once in a lifetime 250mph tailwind. And now people who are idiots think the captain is a God, whereas it's just blind luck and once in a lifetime tailwind.

If you had any other person piloting the plane it would have been the same. That's unjust enrichement and society has always punished that, and it's exemplified by the PowerBall lotter where the Govt. takes half or even more.

If you took all the stock owned by billionaires and transfered them to Pension funds nothing will change. Apple would still make iPhones and Microsoft would still make Windows, Google would still make Android etc.

So you agree that italy is different and hence a far right woman is not that big of a threat as external observer think she is.

And it would be the same if it was a guy, but Melone being a woman and a mom is an extra form of protection against cult of personality and war

These people are crazy. A Right wing woman who is also a mom is the best of both worlds.

That is personal responsibility domestically, no-nonsense of any kind plus avoiding getting screwed in Brussels without any cult of personality and war waging.

There is nothing to collect. It's a bad idea period. 75% of people live in cities. If one wants to go the way of personal flight transportation for the masses then helicopters and VTOL are the way because of lack of space. Of course everybody would have to wear ear protection 24/7/365.

One should just be grateful that Larry Page is not a scammer, he could have built a POC, use the immense power of his wealth and the immense power of Google to hype it up , then IPO and make billions by selling into greater fools , the same who blindly buy Gamestop, AMC and whatever Musk shoves down their throats.

You are really losing a huge personal branding opportunity.

Alternatively: people now trust you, there is some way to monetize that for sure such as organizing events, conventions etc. Make them pay a bit more than you would to recoup the cost of piracy.

In the end it's the strategy used by the GOAT. Bill Gates knew he couldn't fight piracy and also it just charged Fortune500 companies a tad more so they'd essentially subsidize pirates all over the world. Ranging from PirateBay to CD sellers in Subsaharan Africa

People and nations do stuff for ROI. Even if Mutually Assured Destruction wasn't intact (it still is) there is no ROI in creating a wasteland, people might be evil but they are evil with rationale.

The rationale is to conquer and exploit for ROI purposes, destroying everything is the opposite of that and is a recipe for ending up way worse than when you started off, even if you "win" the nuclear exchange.

It's the reason why China decided not to match Russia and US 5000+ nukes and stopped at 1000. Millions of diplomats and an ever growing movie industry will be their Weapons of Mass Persuasion.

In Russia people don't want to die for someone else ambitions, in the West people who are quiet quitting don't want to overwork themselves for someone else ambitions...

Trust in bosses and apex figures is plummeting all over the world.

> when you bury the productive on taxes they will just stop working or run away

Big fortunes in excess of 1B are not made by working or salary. They are made by winning the IPO lottery. Or winning the stock market lottery or the real estate lottery.

Government takes half of the PoweBall which is a relatively minor sum compared to the figures we are talking about when adding up all billionaires worth.

It's only fair that the government also take half of all (and I mean all sorts) of lottery jackpots and for previous winnings everything in excess of one billion.

Extreme wealth inequality is much easier to solve than Global Warming. It's a political problem , global warming requires politics + policing + enforcement + technical inventions + technical application.

I'll worry about climate change once extreme wealth inequality has been solved. It's pointless to worry about it beforehand given how they are on a completely different scale of complexity. You gotta crawl before you can walk. If you can't even crawl then there is no point worrying about your gait looks like.

Regular people are fed up. If you try and limit their quality of life there will be an escalation of violence. We are already seeing the byproducts of lockdowns.

As a regular citizen seeing people like Bloomberg, Di Caprio and Musk talk and tweet about climate change from their G650ER only makes me want to pollute more just to go against them, because what they preach can't possibly be good for me or society. Their history of sociopathic behavior speaks for itself.

They want to prevent any form of wealth redistribution, so they hope to move the issue from wealth inequality (which would see them as a target) towards something like climate change which is essentially a false flag on a planetary scale to prop up the confidence in our political and business leaders (and thus prevent redistribution of wealth and power). Somethin akin to an alien invasion which would rally people together.

I am not having it, every billionaire is a policy failure. If we cannot even address such policy failures which are relatively easy to solve, then thinking about mitigating , adapting and ultimately solving climate change is pure utopia. Hence it doesn't warrant our attention.

> COVID killed more than 6 million people.

COVID trimmed weeks or months off the lives of people who were already on their way to the end of their lives in a matter of 12/48 months.

Unwarrented fear of an extremely low-probability bad outcome.

> "The courage to move on, do something new that betters all of us"

Totally not a cult. And as every cult they hate and subject their members to unnecessary suffering.

And the brainwashed cult members are there asking for more as some sort of ritual believeing that the more they suffer the more worthy they are.

We have to thank the Clinton's DOJ I guess. They managed to substitute Microsoft with something way worse. That is what always happens with regime changes enforced from outside...making things worse in geopolitics and the corporate world ever since the first stone age.

Same goes with Tesla and the green push that began during the Obama years. Another great American cult they managed to create which provides zero quality of life to its members, and actually kills them too, and it makes it seem like an accident! This is the stuff Jim Jones dreamt about at night in his wildest wet dreams

The invisible hand might not be perfect but it's way less worse than the alternative

The West limiting itself will only destroy our mental health and creativity in a moment where both are needed the most to fight old enemies such as Russia, China, India etc. But also to fight new enemies such as climate change.

There is a reason why monks don't come up with world-changing inventions. Necessity is the mother of invention after all.

We invent stuff to keep improving our quality of life, that is a complete different approach than regressing and limiting ourselves which has never worked and never will.

I won't sacrifice myself for the benefit of some Malay or Indian farmer who can now light on fire even more palm oil.

The answer to environmental problems can't be leaving quality of life on the table. If you leave a vacuum other people are gonna fill that vacuum . India and China would consider a huge success a scenario in which climate gets worse but there is a reversal in the quality of life metrics: that is Europe and US becoming second world and them taking the spot of first world.

A comment such as yours can only be produced by an overtly concerned American or European who is not aware that if you stop fighting for quality of life it's gonna be taken away from you. Then you'll have the worst of both worlds: Low quality of life and climate change still unsolved.

It is a huge dichotomy to fight for freedom in Ukraine and then lose the fight for quality of life at home, all because John Kerry and Al Gore tell you to stop being a proud American. These are the same people that don't believe in American exceptionalism and want to destroy NATO so that the West is vulnerable to attacks from India, Russia and China.

Not all red meat is processed meat.

red meat is bad for the environment but there is no conclusive evidence that is bad for you.

So while we wait for this final evidence that will prove that read meat is satan, I think it means that its good for you overall because it tastes delicious and eating delicious things is good for mental health

Are you still wearing a mask and scared of COVID I assume?

The best security measure one can have is being an absolute nobody.

if anything pirated software is an indicator of low wealth and thus should make you more secure not less

All Microsoft products are free of charge if you know where to look for them.

Basically you have the big Fortune 500 companies subsidizing pirates who download from TPBay...and of course the pirate CD copies being sold in street markets all over Sub-Saharan Africa.

Microsoft with Windows, Azure, Office, Outlook and PowerPoint is the backbone of the economy. Come noon you have already used half a dozen of different flavors of Microsoft and again if you know where to look you tasted them all for free.

Analyzing things post-facto the bad reputation that Microsoft had was unwarrented given that we ended up under a much tighter stranghold of Apple in the mobile environment. At least the developing world is saving themselves using Android.

Except if we equate the working environment with school then traveling to conferences is basically a school trip.

That is the most fun, people who are lucky enough to having been in a sports team when they were younger understand that being on the road is the best.

If you were a student/athlete then going on the road was a unique mix of working for a future shot in the world of pros AND fun being on the road with your mates.

Ford CEO hasn't positioned himself as some blend between Howard Hughes and Jim Jones.

Also Ford doesn't sell a product called autopilot which gives people the idea that the car will never crash into things ever again.

Equal rights, equal lefts

> Tesla is the only car brand where such a minor recall (that can be fixed via an OTA update) results in a news article by a major news distributor.

If Kanye West clothing brand were to be found using slave labor it would make way more noise than if a generic brand did it.

Matter of fact the sole ownership of a brand by some famous person increases scrutiny.

That's because fame produces about an equal amount of admirers and haters.

Point is that it's really foolish to feel sorry for people like Musk and the Kardashians, they did it all out of their free will, nobody forces them to keep injecting themselves in the newscycle. They aren't employees so there is no record executive or movie producer dragging them by the hair to do media.

When Bob Dylan got tired of the inconveniences of fame he simply fired his agents and embraced a low profile, same with Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Daniel-Day-Lewis all the way to George Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter etc.

All of them were much bigger names than Musk and the Kardashians, and some of them were also employees so they had to re-negotiate their position with the record labels and movie studios to do less media, and sure enough they got out of the newscycle. So it can be done, but something tells me that both the Kardashians and Musk don't want to give up their fame acquired for shitposting and dicking around on TV.

> Elon Musk has made the topic quite popular recently

Musk will make every argument for stability because he won the lottery and wants no more draws, people who are unhappy on the other hand might use some instability because it means a bunch of new draws with high frequency.

It's also the reason why every Senator, Representative, President of every country prioritizes stability.

The population at large might have a different opinion on the matter .

Who is we? Personal responsibility doesn't mean you'd have to take snake oil or travel at 200mph without seatbelt.

It simply means that you get to keep your own money and get to decide each on your own if you want to test your pills before popping them or if you want install safety systems in your car before hitting the road.

I think it's very peculiar that the US became so socialized given that every kid in the country dreams of hitting the walk-off Home run in the 9th inning of Game 7 of the World Series