Elon Musk trapped Tesla shareholders: give me $1 tril or I won't lie for you

labrador 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've seen a lot of amazing robot videos lately that aren't CGI (as was the case a few years ago) and none of them are from Tesla Optimus. The Robotaxi videos have not been encouraging either. Waymo just got a license for the notoriously difficult San Fransisco airport SFO. I can't imagine a Tesla Robotaxi successfully navigating that place based on the videos I've seen.

I understand the faith people have in Musk based on SpaceX, but that doesn't seem to be translating to cars and robots.

	▲	DaveZale 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Were you around in 1999? Everyone knew stock prices were absurdly high, but why not buy this one, just to say you have it? Like the NFT craze a few years ago? We're at over a trillion in margin debt in the US stock market now, according to some reports. That's a few thousand $ per capita here, though some of that comes from abroad, some is used for options or complicated shorting strategies or whatever, but like some successful pros point out, black swan moments happen with regularity, though unpredictable, a "not a question of if, but when"

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duxup 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>However, Tesla is currently running 5 ads on Google, and they are all about getting Tesla shareholders to vote for Musk’s new compensation package

That's wild ... I've not seen much in the way of this specific of an advertisement before.

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sidibe 4 hours ago | parent [-]

They did it for last year's vote about reinstating his compensation too. And he is proud of not advertising Teslas products

	▲	duxup 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Wild, they must be very confident in their ability to target voters.

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JumpinJack_Cash 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Musk has been lying at a super high rate lately but since Q4 2021 the stock has been flat , with the exception of the Trump bromance trade last year