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>[despite its flaws, Tesla is] an actual business, bringing in actual money... This exact same reasoning applies to drug dealers (illicit and BigPharma), sex d

>[despite its flaws, Tesla is] an actual business, bringing in actual money... This exact same reasoning applies to drug dealers (illicit and BigPharma), sex dens, and other perverse corruptions (both sanctioned and not). I think the reasons you list as Tesla's faults are reason enough to look elsewhere (for a car or stock investment). But, if your reasons are not enough, consider E.Musk's primary stated reason for running Tesla: to generate profits enough to get humanity to Mars. The task of doing so may very well deplete significant Earth resources... does it make sense to [further] pollute our space marble just to infect another space rock with us?

benj111 4y ago
None of those are examples of a con though. If you thought you were buying coke and got flour, that would be a con, but if not it's just illegal. I'm not saying buy the stock, but that doesn't make it a con any more than any other thing I wouldn't buy. Going to mars also isn't a con. It's just a reason (for you) not to buy the stock and or the cars.
ncmncm 4y ago
The whole Mars colonization thing is absolutely a con, because there will never be a Mars colony, and Starship would in any case be wholly inadequate to the job of establishing one. Even O'Neill Can Donuts make more sense.