To see trickle-down check out these inequality charts, Figures 1 and 2 at https://www.cbpp.org/research/.... Figure 1 is growing much faster, but everyone is gaining. By the way, Figure 1 shows what happened when we got off of the gold standard and they started "managing" the money supply. That's what happens when you let people control the economy, it benefits their family and friends instead of everyone, and that's the deliberate lie that you're believing.
And I'm not fucking new, I'm fucking old.
And Tesla is just getting started. Their vehicle to grid technology, bundled with their cars, is going to add a major source of electricity storage, which should even out power generation without needing a lot more capacity.
I still have high hopes for their solar roofs, that when they figure out the installation and get costs down that those will cause a step change in solar generation adoption.
Their self-driving tech, when it finally arrives, will allow for autonomous taxis everywhere, vastly reducing the need for every household to own their own cars.
Their robots could vastly reduce the costs of labor, making high quality goods available to everyone.
Then there's their AI, not sure what that might accomplish, besides enabling their self driving and robots.
They most likely won't win in most of these areas, but they're a competitor driving the technologies forward.
With the gigacasting, the jury is still out on the environmental impacts, but the cost savings will cars much more affordable, so it helps people living paycheck to paycheck afford cars. You say it all goes to their profit, but they've been trying to drive down the price of their cars to serve their mission statement. Replacement factor: if there's enough damage to a gigacasting, another car in the same accident would most likely have been totaled and scrapped. The gigacastings are also lighter, so they improve efficiency, saving 'fuel', so they're good for the environment that way.
By the way, Tesla started gigacastings in cars, but lots of other car manufacturers are going to start using them, too. I could be wrong, and the gigacastings might be more expensive (dollars/pollution) than they're worth, but this type of technological change is a big reason I like Tesla; they're willing to rethink the fundamentals and try vastly different processes; some things might work and others won't, but without change you can't progress.
I'm against authoritarian governments, whether they're left or right, which is why I believe government power must be kept in check. I'm against the endless wars, and I'm much more concerned with a nuclear apocalypse than with the slow erosion of the environment, but I'm concerned with that, too—that's why I'm such a big supporter of Tesla.
That's where I am. If we don't have anything to discuss, then I hope you find peace and joy in your life. Cheers.
It would be even higher without it. Duh.
You were using that as an excuse for employment in CA being lower. If it's not that, because that is a net benefit, why do you think CA has the highest unemployment rate of all of the states in the country?
CA is a large economy, it's more planned and centralized than many others, and it's failing because planned centralized economies do not work.
If you can run a publicly traded company for less, then you should and show us how it's done. My guess is you won't be able to get capable and well connected people in leadership positions, and your company wouldn't make it.
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