> by that logic, elon's stock prices and tesla sales are an even more direct form of check for his power That's quite a stretch of the imagination. Elon can ma

> by that logic, elon's stock prices and tesla sales are an even more direct form of check for his power That's quite a stretch of the imagination. Elon can make X go up in stock price by firing half the team, or by outsourcing their work to Bangladesh or replacing them with badly made AI, or adding porn advertisers. None of these ways of bumping the stock price is a represention of how well they are upholding the law or their approval by the general public. On the other hand, EU governments who elect their representatives in the EU parliament are all democratically elected. If they misbehave, the public can throw them to the curb at the next election, like what happened in Poland where the government tried to behave like the nasty greedy man child that Elon is. Let's put it like that, I don't fully trust my government, but I believe we as people have the ability to improve some things, while I think Elon is a deranged out of touch and control lunatic. Luckily, in the Nordics they showed this petulant little brat what happens when workers band together and boycott Tesla.