Comment by simondotau
8 hours ago
If that's really the reason, that's the most idiotic reason possible. So he "earned" a couple of Roadsters by spamming his referral code, and it turns out his free cars might be a decade late, and maybe not as awesome as promised?
Booo hooooo
> booo hoooo
If your employer said they'd pay you half a million if you worked for them, and then you did and they didn't pay you, I doubt you'd be dismissing it so frivolously
Okay but that’s not remotely analogous. Leveraging an existing monetised readership for referral credits isn’t “work”.
Then what is it?
> Leveraging an existing monetised readership for referral credits isn’t “work”.
it is literally a situation in which a business pays someone for doing a job (e.g. referring customers)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referral_economy
It's called fraud, the editor was a victim of fraud. At least he clued on late I guess..
Is it fraud if he paid $0 for non-existent roadsters? Referral credits are legal fictions, much like how Tesla Roadsters are physical fictions. Trading one fiction for another isn’t fraud, it’s cosplay.
>Is it fraud if he paid $0 for non-existent roadsters?
Is it fraud if you worked for a startup that promised you options, and then refused to honor/issue those said options? After all, because those options never existed, you also "paid $0 for non-existent [options]"?
There was no guarantee of Roadster delivery date.