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Boys love for cars begins at 2 and never ends. EVs became a meme for revolutionizing the car industry in a way people perceive will be as profound as Karl Benz

by GDC7 5y ago

Boys love for cars begins at 2 and never ends. EVs became a meme for revolutionizing the car industry in a way people perceive will be as profound as Karl Benz first car or Ford Model T. So naturally boys of every age want to be part of this movement and pump their savings (as well as their clients savings) into EV companies, even though manufacturing is a terrible business. Everything market related it's about meme power of the story and meme power of the product, perception is very much reality. As I said boys love for cars starts at 2 and never ends, unfortunately very few dream about building an artificial heart or defeating parkinson or alzheimers, curating diabetes, solving cancer etc. It's not just regular people actually. Boys love for toys trascends IQ, Feynman and Von Neumann loved the process of building the most deadly toy know to mankind (nuclear weapons) , but they both died fairly early due to cancer, and they both knew that cancer or cardiovascular disease would have been the thing which would have gotten them (much like any other human), but still they didn't feel compelled to do something about it, they decided to employ their time building toys instead. Cars, rockets, missiles, planes, bombs , they all fall under the same umbrella of toys. with cars being #1

weregiraffe 5y ago
Wow, I had no idea gender stereotypes can explain everything! I thought this power belonged to God Almighty alone.
bigbillheck 5y ago
> Boys love for cars begins at 2 and never ends. Just think of all the billions of dudes who lived and died unfulfilled before the invention of the automobile.
- GDC7 5y ago
  It’s way less than a billion Plus given that they are dead I can’t see why their brains and hearts are material to the success of EV STOCKS. The dead can’t buy stocks
  - bigbillheck 5y ago
    (a) Not according to https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-populat... it isn't. Assuming no centenarians and adding up the populations every 100 years from 200 to 1804 I get 4.6 billion people, of whom we can assume more or less half--so 2.3 billion--are guys. Drop out a generous ten percent for non-binary and assume AMAB is balanced with AFAB and that's still over two billion, which I consider good enough for 'billions, plural'. You did say 'begins at 2', and you might think this would put a crimp in the analysis, but at this kind of nit-pickery I'll point out that by 1850 there was another 200 million people (net) to offset early childhood mortality. Anyway who's talking about stocks, I'm talking about dudes and their 'love for cars [that] begins at 2 and never ends'.
542354234235 5y ago
>Cars, rockets, missiles, planes, bombs , they all fall under the same umbrella of toys. Well, I just decided that building an artificial heart or defeating Parkinson or Alzheimer's, curing diabetes, solving cancer are under the umbrella of hobbies. Why should people be so preoccupied with hobbies? Hobbies have their place but it seems silly to dedicate ones life on something as trivial as a hobby.
- GDC7 5y ago
  > Well, I just decided that building an artificial heart or defeating Parkinson or Alzheimer's, curing diabetes, solving cancer are under the umbrella of hobbies They fall under the umbrella of survival, because as things stands today , you know that one of those things will eventually be the thing which gets you . Very much like Feynman and Von Neumann knew too, but decided to dedicate the practical part of their theoretical skills to building a toy such as the atomic bomb
  - 542354234235 5y ago
    >They fall under the umbrella of survival Since humans already survive, they do not. Just like humans already can move from point A to point B without cars or planes, humans survive without artificial hearts. So those things are hobbies in the same way cars and planes are toys.
    - GDC7 5y ago
      > humans survive without artificial hearts Any human will die at some point without artificial hearts, meaning all humans are slowly dying due to non availibility of artificial hearts, further meaning that all humans are slowly failing to survive without artificial hearts.

by GDC7 5y ago

weregiraffe 5y ago

Wow, I had no idea gender stereotypes can explain everything! I thought this power belonged to God Almighty alone.

bigbillheck 5y ago

> Boys love for cars begins at 2 and never ends. Just think of all the billions of dudes who lived and died unfulfilled before the invention of the automobile.

GDC7 5y ago
It’s way less than a billion Plus given that they are dead I can’t see why their brains and hearts are material to the success of EV STOCKS. The dead can’t buy stocks
- bigbillheck 5y ago
  (a) Not according to https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-populat... it isn't. Assuming no centenarians and adding up the populations every 100 years from 200 to 1804 I get 4.6 billion people, of whom we can assume more or less half--so 2.3 billion--are guys. Drop out a generous ten percent for non-binary and assume AMAB is balanced with AFAB and that's still over two billion, which I consider good enough for 'billions, plural'. You did say 'begins at 2', and you might think this would put a crimp in the analysis, but at this kind of nit-pickery I'll point out that by 1850 there was another 200 million people (net) to offset early childhood mortality. Anyway who's talking about stocks, I'm talking about dudes and their 'love for cars [that] begins at 2 and never ends'.

542354234235 5y ago

>Cars, rockets, missiles, planes, bombs , they all fall under the same umbrella of toys. Well, I just decided that building an artificial heart or defeating Parkinson or Alzheimer's, curing diabetes, solving cancer are under the umbrella of hobbies. Why should people be so preoccupied with hobbies? Hobbies have their place but it seems silly to dedicate ones life on something as trivial as a hobby.

GDC7 5y ago
> Well, I just decided that building an artificial heart or defeating Parkinson or Alzheimer's, curing diabetes, solving cancer are under the umbrella of hobbies They fall under the umbrella of survival, because as things stands today , you know that one of those things will eventually be the thing which gets you . Very much like Feynman and Von Neumann knew too, but decided to dedicate the practical part of their theoretical skills to building a toy such as the atomic bomb
- 542354234235 5y ago
  >They fall under the umbrella of survival Since humans already survive, they do not. Just like humans already can move from point A to point B without cars or planes, humans survive without artificial hearts. So those things are hobbies in the same way cars and planes are toys.
  - GDC7 5y ago
    > humans survive without artificial hearts Any human will die at some point without artificial hearts, meaning all humans are slowly dying due to non availibility of artificial hearts, further meaning that all humans are slowly failing to survive without artificial hearts.