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aquarain t1_j6beszg wrote

Reply to comment by redonkulousness in Tesla just had its best week since May 2013 by upyoars

With production optimizations the margins were getting a bit fluffy. The point isn't really to sell cars. It's to change the world by killing the internal combustion engine, the carbon fueled electric generator. They have to make a profit to serve shareholders but if they can do that in a way that also serves their social goals then more power (sic) to them.

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redonkulousness t1_j6bkqoy wrote

I can’t wait for oil to be phased out and electric to be the predominate modality of transportation. Tesla took the brunt of the r&d and should be rewarded for it imo.

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aquarain t1_j6bnu1g wrote

https://www.google.com/search?q=all+our+patent+are+belong+to+you

They genuinely don't care about the rewards in the traditional sense of monopolistic control and exploitation of that leverage. They will win, of course, in the fiscal sense. They're not crazy. They owe that to the investors who helped them and stiffing the long term investors isn't in their moral compass. But how they do it will be by creating a wave they are first surfer on. It's Jiu Jitsu. Kung Fu. "The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm." - Confucius

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