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Yet now we have reusable rockets, electric cars, and a more credible path towards carbon neutral transit. Maybe those are hard enough problems that you just ca
by optimiz3 6y ago
Yet now we have reusable rockets, electric cars, and a more credible path towards carbon neutral transit.
Maybe those are hard enough problems that you just can't tolerate employees not pulling their weight.
- the-dude 6y agoOur milkman had an electric vehicle in the 70ies.
- pjc50 6y agoMusk takes away with the other hand: by backing Bitcoin and the large-scale waste of not-yet-zero-carbon electricity. https://www.ft.com/content/a9bd5b42-272e-465c-9284-9fe2a7906f48 https://www.ft.com/content/a9bd5b42-272e-465c-9284-9fe2a7906...
- optimiz3 6y agoTesla isn't mining it. Bitcoin costs nothing to hold. It's a hedge against inflation given TSLA's massive cash reserves.
- ben_w 6y agoGovernments try to keep inflation in a narrow range; they avoid high inflation for obvious reasons, they avoid low inflation precisely so people don’t sit on massive cash reserves, because it is bad for everyone when that happens.
- simonh 6y agoIt so ludicrously volatile that it’s not a rational hedge against anything.
- dragonelite 6y agoIs that the new angle to attack bitcoin with?
- monadgonad 6y agoBelieving that working on hard problems justifies abusing employees, and blaming the employees for "not pulling their weight" is really reprehensible thinking. That's something straight out of a comic book villain's "the ends always justify the means" monologue.
- optimiz3 6y agoOkay, please cite the employee abuse you are claiming. I've yet to see claims that aren't hotly contested or that have ended up being traced back to various short seller campaigns. It's a free country, employees can work where they want, and TSLA employees got stock. Guaranteed if they toughed it out it was more than worth it financially. Martin Tripp being an egregious example, who was held up for years as some poster boy of David vs Goliath whistle-blowing only to ultimately have been ruled against in court.