It's been stated since pretty much day 1 that the plan was to make luxury cars and then use the experience, manufacturing capability, and profits to trickle down into cheaper, more widely available models. Which is actually what has been happening.

Their cheapest bottom of the barrel model is now 62k CAD in Canada. I don't feel like the recent move to increase the price of their cars by tens of thousands of dollars is aligned with the goal of making cheap EVs.

The goal was never "sell any given EV for as cheap as possible, with no regard to business sense", but to build a company that could end up mass producing normal consumer level EVs. They could cut the price of their cars if they wanted to, but I'm not sure how that would help them reach a goal of a $25k EV.

You're now spending your time making excuses for the richest man on earth, insisting he'll do something for the world eventually.

Meanwhile he makes luxury cars, getting paid top dollar from both consumers and the government both, and shooting rockets into space, for which he's also getting paid by the government.

You think your devotion to the cause of making him ever richer pleases him?

> You're now spending your time making excuses for the richest man on earth, insisting he'll do something for the world eventually.

No, I'm pushing back against false claims and inconsistent logic.

> You think your devotion to the cause of making him ever richer pleases him?

If you said Hitler had 20 fingers, I would have told you that he only had 10. That doesn't mean I'm devoted to Hitler, it means I'm devoted to the truth regardless of who is trendy to hate on right now.

If you believe in the idea of wealth redistribution, there’s no better way than to come up with expensive products/services to sell to rich people who will gladly hand their money over voluntarily. There should be more of this.

Over 1 million people have bought those cars "for the wealthy" and growth has no end in sight. People are buying above what they would normally pay for a Tesla.