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It's fascinating how many here if someone goes against a Musk company immediately assume that it's due to corruption or protection for the incumbents. Consideri

It's fascinating how many here if someone goes against a Musk company immediately assume that it's due to corruption or protection for the incumbents. Considering how Tesla benefits significantly from regulations (they make more money from carbon credits than selling cars), I think they are very good at taking advantage of regulation themselves. Also regarding the current article, maybe it is like in the article SpaceX bit largely on census blocks that do not deserve government subsidies? Maybe they even did it on purpose because they knew they could use other means to provide broadband if they can't get starlink up quick enough?

fallingknife 5y ago
Last quarter 3% of Tesla's revenue was from carbon credits.
- 8ytecoder 5y ago
  That result came out yesterday or the day before.
908B64B197 5y ago
> It's fascinating how many here if someone goes against a Musk company immediately assume that it's due to corruption or protection for the incumbents. Legacy aerospace players tried to sue SpaceX multiple times over (lucrative) exclusive government contracts. There's no local monopoly for cars, it's a relatively open market with multiple players. Telecom and Space, well that's a different story. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/20/21377025/spacex-air-force-nssl-defense-department-lsa-awards-lawsuit-ula https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/20/21377025/spacex-air-force... https://spacenews.com/spacex-air-force-reach-agreement/ https://spacenews.com/spacex-air-force-reach-agreement/ https://www.ulalaunch.com/about/news/2014/04/28/united-launch-alliance-(ula)-statement-in-response-to-spacex-lawsuit https://www.ulalaunch.com/about/news/2014/04/28/united-launc...