There’s a concept of paid slaves.
I sure want to pay too much money for an unreliable potential fireball built by exhausted workers for a rich puppet that’s been portrayed as a genius by a controlled main stream media owned by corporations and governments that use said puppet to build and fund tech used by the military to murder strangers around the world.
Saying we expect our employees to act as slaves, weird flex there Space Karen.
Man i don’t wanna buy a car made by people who aren’t sleeping in a bed. Come on, now.
Tesla’s quality control is already shit.
Imagine how much worse it could get if the workers are even more sleep deprived.
He does know he can just hire more people and have them work shifts, right?
He is well aware. But if he did that he’d make maybe one tenth of a percent less and we can’t have that!
Breaking News: Elon Musk gets an orange spray tan, starts wearing a blond wig and claims this is fake news. Says he is aspirationally Jewish.
Ya take 16 tons, whaddya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Wasn’t the model 3 supposed to be the affordable version
Is $25k affordable? How much are cars? 25k sounds like a fuckload of money.
Some people pay like $60-80k for those big trucks you see
I live in a shitty neighborhood. The amount of Audi, bmw, Porsche SUVs is crazy.
The trick is, luxury cars drop in value insanely fast. A 2 year old Audi is often about the same price as a new Honda. The problem these people don’t account for is maintenance costs. They think they are getting a deal, then they are getting dragged down by an unreliable vehicle that they can’t afford to fix.
They think they are getting a deal, then they are getting dragged down by an unreliable vehicle that they can’t afford to fix.
If memory serves, the outliers here are Lexus and Audi which both score high on reliability ratings. I could be wrong though, is been a couple of years since I looked into owning a car.
True, Lexus is a Toyota brand, and at least historically shared a lot of parts with Toyota cars, so maintenance wasn’t always crazy. In the case of Audi, they might be quite reliable, but I know repairs/maintenance, when needed, is very expensive.
Lexus is probably highly reliable but Audi’s have the same problem as other German makes- tons of cheap plastic under the hood that disintegrates at around the 5 year mark. There are lots of YouTube videos about it.
Yeah I’ve been keeping an eye on old beaters just to drop my kids to school and a 20yo Volvo SUV is as cheap as a 20yo Mazda.
Big bucks for big trucks?
How much do you think a new car costs?
about as much as a banana, Michael
So, what, I don’t know, $10?
Go see a Star War.
$25K for a full electric car is the lowest price ever in the U.S.
I paid $21K for a used gasoline Honda Civic coupe just 2 years ago.
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Chevy Bolt was under $25k before the $7500 credit. Now the same car is $40k.
USD25K would buy you a sports spec Hyundai hatch, or a low spec 2wd SUV in Australia.
Affordable? No, not to many people’s finances
Relatively cheap for a new car? Unfortunately
A tough combination in a country where having a car is essentially mandatory in all but a few cities
$25k is actually very affordable for what new cars go for. That was deemed affordable 10 years ago, so hitting that price point today is an even bigger deal.
For a new car? $25k is a pretty low price, at least in the US. My car was $24k new 10 years ago. It wasn’t particularly special then.
Supposedly my 2016 Corolla was 25k I think. But after all the fees and taxes and shit I feel like it was closer to 30k. All I know for real was that it was about $10/day for 7 years.
*Canadian $
How much does a banana cost? $25,000?
Don’t buy that crap. 'nuff said.
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Articles that start with “Elon Musk says…” 😄
This category of articles is getting more and more hilarious recently.
Lots of interesting articles and research talking about the problem of many CEOs exhibiting psychopathic traits but it being accepted. For example.
https://fortune.com/2021/06/06/corporate-psychopaths-business-leadership-csr/
“Our culture also glorifies and rewards successful leaders who may lie somewhere on the spectrum of psychopathy or who, if not actually psychopathic, nevertheless display traits that psychopathic individuals frequently have. The problem, of course, is that while psychopaths may have a lot of charisma and creativity, they may also lack, as already mentioned, socially important qualities such as empathy and morality.”
And as we saw with the “My 0th Blender Model (because we all know your first model is a somewhat decent donut),” these people have no creativity.
Yeah this is why there is so much suffering under capitalism.
Preach
The key thing is that it’s not our culture, it’s the material interests of the rich that elevate psychopaths to power. The culture follows.
This country was founded on rich assholes who didnt like the monarchy. It’s always been about greed. You think the starving plebs gave a fuck about tea in a harbor?
rich assholes who didnt like the monarchy.
Rich assholes who felt the monarchy was taking their money. All talk of justification aside, it’s entirely possible they took this stance simply because they were 3000 miles away, with a dangerous ocean crossing required to close that gap, and felt that made ignoring the tax bill worth the risk.
You say that as if capitalism doesn’t exist outside of the USA.
Yeah, it does exist elsewhere; I think the point they’re making is that it is apparent the United States was founded specifically for the interests of landowning (and slave owning) rich people. While not unique globally, the USA was probably the first country intentionally founded to protect the capitalist instead of the nobility or a religious group.
I do! I want some of that forbidden jungle juice in the boastan haabar!
Yup. Sadly, having broken moral compass and lacking empathy can be obscenely profitable in the right circles. I honestly think that’s all that is propping these guys up anymore.
Also, we used to attribute “boldness” to psycopaths/sociopaths but it turns out that’s bunk and they’re really “just mean”. So the apologists out there have, yet again, one less thing to work with. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-any-age/202201/no-there-are-no-benefits-psychopathy
This is why the simple existence of billionaires is violence. You simply cannot become filthy rich without profiting off of the suffering of others. This motherfucker could pay people enough to never have to even consider sleeping on a factory floor. Hell, he could probably double his workforce and still pay that well and be filthy rich.
But they don’t need a union
Sounds like The Boer is homesick for the land of his youth
This guy probably thinks he’s doing his employees a favor by paying them for the work they perform for him
