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Sounds like an multi billion dollar business. That will increase the gap between wealthy and poor even more. But well, that's the world we live in.
by SpaceInvader 7y ago
Sounds like an multi billion dollar business. That will increase the gap between wealthy and poor even more. But well, that's the world we live in.
- cousin_it 7y agoI'm ok with that. Cars and computers were also only available to rich people at first. The alternative is not having them at all.
- brbrodude 7y agoActually there's literally infinite alternatives. Simple logic.
- danieltillett 7y agoWith sort of thinking we would all be peasants scratching out a living in the dirt always on the verge of starvation. The trend of technology is the rich get something first and over time access trickles down to everyone.
- neuronic 7y ago"But well, that's the world we live in." - Sunday afternoon thought of George Washington, sipping on a glass of wine in a certain alternate universe one Sunday afternoon.
- drcross 7y agoI always hear this comment and yet no one can provide one example where a technology or innovation was similar in the past. From air travel, electric cars and medicine, the rich get it first before prices drop for mass marketability.
- jhayward 7y agoIt is fairly easy, as a thought experiment, to project such a trend of accelerating accrual of benefits of technology to the plutocracy to a future point where your statement is no longer true.
- saiya-jin 7y agoTesla was, is and for some time will be only for the rich. More adoption, competition and improved processes of manufacturing will drive the price down for the masses.
- melling 7y agoYou mean the electric car? Because a lot of companies make electric cars. In China, for example, there are a couple hundred electric car companies. The Chinese will buy electric cars by the tens of millions and everything will change. It doesn’t matter if Tesla is still expensive.
- bigzyg33k 7y agoIsn't that kind of his point? Initial innovation is expensive, but it soon becomes affordable for all, and thus innovation is good for everyone
- melling 7y ago1.3 million electric vehicles were sold last year in China. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/08/fitch-says-chinese-electric-vehicle-sales-to-boom-despite-subsidy-cuts.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/08/fitch-says-chinese-electric-... Tesla is a premium brand. There are other more affordable EV’s being sold in China. We’re way past initial innovation. The largest car market in the world is migrating to EV’s.
- brbrodude 7y agoIt already is a multi billion dollar business. And cyberpunkish dystopia stuff like "poor get old & decrepit while rich extends youth" already exists in several ways(health, food, in US "legal roiding"... Same shit as it's always been.