Elon's company is there only (or mainly) because of government help and easy monetary policy.
You can say the same for GM, Chrysler, and other auto makers. Reality check: Making automobiles takes many billions of dollars in capital investment, and usually yields rather thin profits at best. We can either buy all our cars from other countries, or we can ask the government to help them out occasionally. The U.S. government helps out U.S. auto makers less than is the case in most other countries, including Germany, Japan, China, and India. I can't say that I like "corporate welfare", but we live in a global economy, and American auto makers have to compete in that economy -- not an isolationist, protectionist one where foreign auto makers can't compete.
Don't forget that Elon himself credits Mercedes Benz and Toyota to keep his company alive. So when you guys come out with pithforks at them next time, think about this. If they wanted Tesla dead, it would've been long time ago.
If Mercedes and Toyota had not seen a benefit to themselves for contracting with Tesla to build EV powertrains, then they wouldn't have done so. They didn't sign contracts with Tesla to "help out the little guy." It's not appropriate for anyone to "thank" a company for doing what it decides will be most profitable for the company.
Really, what did I do? Did I stop Tesla from making quality cars or selling their promised $35k Model 3 cars,, or procuring new subsidies? Just pointing out the not so rosy side makes me an enemy? LOL, pretty soon Tesla cult members will declare me another saboteur.
No, you're just one more anti-Tesla smear campaigner, copying and posting FUD from other smear campaigners, all trying to tear down the good reputation of Tesla, a company genuinely trying to make the world a better place, and also trying to tear down the reputation of its CEO. Sadly, you're doing that for no other reason than greed, possibly with a side helping of jealousy of Elon Musk.
You certainly are doing all you can to prevent Tesla from being successful; to prevent Tesla from being profitable enough to put the base $35k Model 3 into production. To dishonestly and unfairly drive down the price of Tesla stock so you can make a profit. Some would call that "fraud"; it's a tragedy that you can get away with it.
Fortunately, "doing all you can" is pretty minor, mean-spirited stuff from any individual Tesla Death Cultist. Sadly, working together, y'all have demonstrated
some ability, however limited, to damage Tesla's good name, manipulate Tesla's stock price, and -- exactly what you're trying very hard to do here, however clownishly -- paint Elon as some sort of fringe nutjob.
As Zachary Shahan put it in
his analysis of July 23rd:
Tesla shorts are scared, exposed, desperate: With a warning that Tesla is on the verge of showing a profit, and previous indication that Tesla needs to produce just 5,000 Model 3 per week to get into the black, Tesla short sellers and foes who have long expected Tesla to collapse can largely see that the stock price could surge soon. If that starts to happen, other short sellers could bail and just decided to take a loss on their bets. Given that TSLA has been the most shorted stock on the market recently, that could mean a historic “
short squeeze.”
It appears that some short sellers are trying to push the price down to a certain level to exit with a gain or a slight loss. Others may be holding out hope that with enough negative news and a little “luck” on the Tesla production side of things, the company could run into a financial death spiral and they could finally get their dream of Tesla collapsing. Others may have honestly not examined the numbers carefully and picked up the wrong, pessimistic narrative.
...There are a lot of rats circling Elon and Tesla right now who would rather convince the world of a tragic story than have to jump ship.
- TeslaInvestors.
