That’s demonstrably untrue. There are plenty of Teslas for sale now that are out-of-warranty.

Had ours a year and gotten at least 2 performance upgrades. Not to mention numerous feature upgrades. Not to say all is perfect in the world of Tesla, but that person having FSD yanked seems to be an edge case in how they bought the car. 

Ford actually considered “drunk three-toed inbred blind buck toothed monkey from the local zoo” for the CEO position but he wanted too much money. Plus he was really drunk and started heaving his own feces at the hiring committee.

Not every project needs years-long lead time and there are some that could already by at a phase that throwing government dollars could accelerate it.

I have seen a ton of pothole repair going on locally. That should require the least amount of planning and, TBH, is the biggest problem with the roads around here. I think it is fair to not expect new bridges and roads, but fixing/maintaining what we have should be on the agenda.

Never said only Elon.

“We have a whole generation of people who see these things, but see no mechanism for upward mobility for themselves, let alone the opportunity to be successful like these people.”

The difference is highly relevant, particularly at that level. Converting wealth to money requires someone else give up their money for wealth. Doing so doesn’t add any amount of money into circulation. Doing so on a large scale can have enormous impacts on stock valuations. It’s highly impractical for someone like…

And people don’t get that Elon can’t just write a check for 80 billion dollars even if he wanted to. He would have to sell all his shares of Tesla (and other investments). That big of a selloff would most likely tank the shares if put on the open market. Also, selling his shares would probably lose him his CEO job and…

There was a documentary a few years ago, before Tesla was a house-hold name, when the cars got bad reviews - the roadster he was trying to sell/ testing out at that time. He was about to go under. This was before Type S. He was a gambler, for sure. Good for him, however people feel about him.

What you are missing is that a Tesla cannot charge at a rate of 15 miles per minute for 20 minutes. The charge rates drops as the battery state of charge (SOC) increases and that very high rate of charging is only available below 15% battery SOC. From test by owners and journalists, a Model 3 on a V3 250 kW…

In reality probably no. But if message boards are an indication, there are millions and millions of people who claim to drive 301 miles each day. Stating that EVs are a waste of time and that they will never buy one.

licking the boots of a billionaire won’t make you rich.

You mean the people in the 8,000 jobs created by SpaceX in the United States? Just like the 48,000 American jobs created by Tesla or 21,000 by Paypal? These companies didn’t spontaneously exist.

Most people lack any understanding of economics and finances. They don’t understand the difference between wealth and money. 

He doesn’t actually have that money. He’s worth that money. Which is extremely different.

Anyone who makes more than Justin didn’t earn it.

This is the thing most people don’t understand about the super wealthy CEO founders. All that wealth is in stock. If Elon tried to turn all that Tesla stock into cash (the SEC wouldn’t let him anyway), the stock would crash like a Model S on autopilot.

It wants Nokia to license the technology to the suppliers of the equipment used to integrate mobile devices in its vehicles, which would then charge the German carmaker.

I’m not here to defend Musk; he seems like a douche and is too rich.  That being said, your statements seem to infer you think he has $8 billion just sitting in the bank...