Right but if there's a choice of 2 EVs without Congolese cobalt, you can choose the one that isn't Tesla. But anyway, humans aren't perfectly rational beings.

Right but if there's a choice of 2 EVs without Congolese cobalt, you can choose the one that isn't Tesla. But anyway, humans aren't perfectly rational beings. Elon being a nob on twitter is more immediate to many people than abstract children in the Congo. I'm not saying that's morally correct, but it's how people work.