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Re:I was part of the 10% Elon's layoff yesterday by supernovae on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @07:46PM (#31843380)
They’re far from stupid. They want to be a part of success and changing the world. Sure, Elon turned into Dr. Evil and took advantage of people and we have to get better at helping people realize this but they’re not morons.

Teslas are awesome cars and the industry is moving to electric cars en masse.

I think it’s great people made that happen. But we need to figure out how to balance the profits in favor of the people…

and that’s not just an Elon problem

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Re:I was part of the 10% Elon's layoff yesterday by solarkraft on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:55PM (#31852791)
The billionaire hate crew often misses that he wasn't a billionaire before he co-started Tesla. Tesla was a scrappy underdog company for a long time; for a good while the most shorted one on the stock market [note: hearsay]. There was a lot of charme in helping it and its somewhat noble goal become successful.

And even if you hate the company's products: They're pretty good at fulfilling their original mission by spawning a lot of successful competition.

Tesla's team has done a great job at making electric vehicles a common thing and they can be proud of that even if the company fully folds tomorrow.

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