Poor Lonnie. May he cry himself to sleep on his MyPillow tonight.

    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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      This is the big thing. Tesla’s stock has never been valued based on what the company is or can do. It’s valued on musk’s image and how much value people believe that brings to the company.

      His huge pay packages are likely because he knows that there’s a reckoning coming with the stock, and he doesn’t want to be a bag holder for his own company.

      That’s one of the reasons why he lies constantly about what’s coming. Full self-driving, people on Mars, solar roof shingles. He has to keep pumping up the image, or the whole house of cards collapses.

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        The problem is, there is seemingly no end to his bullshit that people will gleefully swallow. I bought it for a while, I loved the idea of an idyllic future. Unfortunately, one must deliver on that at some point. I was always willing to to accept the bullshit on the premise that it would happen at some point. However he’s lost the plot to his own hubris and idiocy. Yet somehow, he’s still able to con enough people to prop (and grow!) his meme stonk.