Comment by simondotau
9 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”.
1. What is it then?
2. If it’s not hard work, then why didn’t Tesla go out and do it themselves instead of mooching off someone else to do it?
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.