There will always be a need for car dealerships, but there is no good reason to ban direct sales. This is pure rent-seeking behavior. The dealerships should position themselves as Tesla's partners in buying/selling used Teslas and in repairs.
I'm not so sure about that. While I'm no expert on the subject I found this podcast. It's from NPR and 16 minutes long, but I thought it very informative.
... where the company's years-old ENTIRE lifetime of work and data is passed around e-mail as a 80MB Excel attachment.
This... is retarded enough to loop all the way around the spectrum and land squarely on awesome.
To be fair, neither do the vast majority of people who use spreadsheets for paid work, but they still believe they're better than you because they get paid to do it, because, ultimately, foreskins are the only metric that matters.
You missed some.
FTFY.
This is where the thread needs to stop.
Really!
Does this mean I can remove all the pictures of me drunk on Facebook???
Are you naked in them?
Not counting the risk of acquiring a narcissistic personality disorder and walking around with a lightsaber killing everyone who disagrees with you...
You say that like it's a bad thing.
YOU GET A LIGHTSABER!
All else is of secondary importance.
Citation needed.
Well, I had to get to page two of a google search on "Walmart Makes Stores Close" before I started coming to articles with numbers from sources I'd heard about, but here you'll find this quote:
"A study published in 2008 in the Journal of Urban Economics examined about 3,000 Walmart store openings nationally and found that each store caused a net decline of about 150 jobs (as competing retailers downsized and closed) and lowered total wages paid to retail workers.".
This article was interesting to read but for those averse to clicking the link:
"But the closer a store was to the Walmart location, the greater the likelihood it would close. Persky and his colleagues found that for every mile closer to the Walmart, 6 percent more stores closed. Close in around the store's location, between 35 and 60 percent of stores closed.
And depending on the type of business, the impact of a Walmart moving in can be much worse. Persky says that the per-mile closure rate increase for drugstores is almost 20 percent. For home furnishings, it's about 15 percent. For hardware stores, it's about 18 percent per mile. For toys, it's more than 25 percent per mile.".
Really, that's all the time I'm willing to invest in refuting the idea that somehow WalMart fosters a diverse / thriving / healthy business ecosystem.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
