Considering the pickup EV has been an enormous commercial flop, only selling barely a fraction of Musk’s promised 250,000 to 500,000 Cybertrucks a year, there’s a good chance Tesla is using the mercurial CEO’s other venture to boost the numbers ahead of the end of an otherwise disastrous year.
Pretty sure this is illegal, you know, using one company to prop up another (the old “Enron” method)
Wish the US still I don’t know, had laws and whatnot
Laws are so 2010. Get with the time, it’s all corruption and gambling now.
2010? By that point, the global financial crisis had already proven that there are no consequences for financial manipulation if you’re rich enough.
“Illegal” is only for the poors and can apply to something as simple as crossing the street
Oh we still have laws. Elon is just part of the “in” group who the laws protect but do not bind.
Just like Madoff and SBF, he’ll only face consequences if he fucks over the wealthy
Its shakey, but might be in the clear because SpaceX is still private and can do whatever it likes. If they went public too, then there would be a problem I think
I think they’re going to IPO soon, so gotta get this shady shit done first.
Using government funds to buy stupid trucks
Private, but don’t they serve a number of government contracts?
This is basically the government bailing out Tesla directly for a shitty truck.
They can’t buy enough of these to weigh the collapsing market for them. They’ll be less than $50k.
They will a hundred percent buy them at full price, in a big money transfer from space x to Tesla so muck can get his trillion dollar payday that was voted in
Let’s remember that SpaceX gets tons of government funding. No doubt they will try to pass it off as legitimate spending.
Yup,
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