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Has nothing to do with my estimation of Musk. There are amoral people who have giant pools of money, who will do anything to make even more money. Spreading ru
by gojomo 13y ago
Has nothing to do with my estimation of Musk. There are amoral people who have giant pools of money, who will do anything to make even more money.
Spreading rumors is one very common tactic, but actual sabotage/'black ops' are also very possible.
- philwelch 13y agoIt just seems odd that you prefer some conspiracy theory over the simpler explanation that Model S has an unforeseen flaw involving battery fires, which are a decades-known risk of lithium batteries anyway.
- gojomo 13y agoIt just seems odd that you're reading Musk/Tesla-love, or an exclusion of the possibility of flaws, into my comments. It's like you're responding to someone else. I'm mentioning another non-exclusive possibility... and one that would work synergistically to expand the stock impact of any actual flaws. (It becomes more likely once the initial idea is planted, be it by flaw or random coincidence. Turn 2 or 3 real fires into twice as many with a little help, collect a billion dollars.) Or do you think high-flying volatile stock values are never unethically manipulated in either direction? Hey, where were you during each of the fires so far?
- philwelch 13y agoI thought it was odd that you were positing conspiracy theories when they were not the Occam-optimal explanation. Musk worship is common around these parts so it seemed the more likely motivation for believing crazy conspiracy theories over more likely explanations.