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Comment by bflesch

5 days ago

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Scarily enough, money isn't his main motivation. He willingly destroyed tesla sales for politics.

  • It's not only about musk but about continued US influence over European defense. If every European defense company moves away from the Starlink platform the US loses a lot of leverage. If they create "plausible deniabiliy" feel-good propaganda like this one, then they can convince some decision makes to keep building defense projects upon the Starlink platform.

  • Did he though? Tesla sales have been basically flat for the past few years -- not growing, but certainly not "destroyed" either. They still have over 50% US market share for EVs.

    And Tesla's stock price (which is what correlates with Musk's wealth) is up 50% since the 2024 election.

  • Haha you really just can't win as a builder. Half the people despise him for doing anything for money, and the other half hate him because he cares for politics over money.

    • You may note that 0/2 halves appreciate his lack of principles and capricious political endeavors.

      If it was, say, Tim Cook being dissected, people would also criticize his inconsistent political views and support for self-serving deregulation.

    • I don't think he really cares about politics.

      He was proper left wing before, switched over to right wing.

      There were plenty of stories and timelines were he as really lucky regarding his money and his investments.

      Im pretty sure he did all of this to lobby for himself.

      Why would he try to change or fix USA Politics for the better of humanity if he stated that earth is over and we need mars.

      DOGE? His way of fighting burocracy and environmental rules. Giving money to Trump? Subsidies, advertising, reduction of environmental rules etc.

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