They don’t see it as a viable market, given that the market’s dominant company can’t make any money from it and it's a market that can't be sustained without significant outside incentives. 

Or they just don’t think it’s worth jumping into until the market matures. Tesla isn’t exactly making a massive profit at the moment to convince the automakers otherwise. It’s not likely for Tesla to monopolize the car making of the future, considering Ford revolutionize the assembly line approach and they're barely…

plug compatibility that’s far more confusing than it should be, (...) and having to decide which charging network you should belong to.

Your last paragraph is the argument for govt to set a universal charging standard which would be a boon to consumers and companies alike. I hope we get there sooner than later. 

many said they were not feeling any financial pressure and were willing to stay on the line, no matter what.

I know that not everyone understands what this means, because not everyone does software for a living, or understands how the hardware works.

A faulty storage device contained in every vehicle, which based on the description of the problem, will have a 100% failure rate over time, and makes the vehicle completely innoperable. Sounds pretty bad to me. 

Typical Tesla haters! First it was expecting the build quality to be at least on par with a Corolla, then it was expecting the $35k car to actually launch, now you want the car to be viable for more than five years? Stop hatin' on my guy E-Musk!

The hardware engineer, product manager, NPI manager, and everyone up the chain responsible for reviewing MTBF here should be ceremonially hung upside down naked, covered in honey, and set upon by a colony of fire ants.*

How does their 401k contributions work?  Wouldn’t that be percentage based, so it wouldn’t require any inflation adjustments?

Plus, the “S” model still won’t be the bottom of the line for Porsche.  There will surely be a Taycan/Taycan 4 to come. 

Nor Toyota.  All the big guys love Tesla spending $36 billion on “market research and fart apps”...

$18 an hour should have a path to higher wages, but ~$30 an hour with full benefits isn’t feasible in the future for assembly line workers. Are line-veterans going to take cuts so that there is reasonable parity among fellow workers?

Have lounge access and sleep in there with free food and drinks.

Leave and get a hotel. 

Agree 100%. I live in Cleveland, and saw some UAW folks protesting out front of the (closed) Lordstown facility last night on the news. The guy bemoaned the fact that his daughter had to transfer to Bowling Green, KY to continue to work, while his son moved to someplace in Missouri... but what does he want? If the…

Totally cool if they interfere with our elections, just don’t build our cars!

I get that auto workers want job “security” since many of them have worked there for decades. You don’t want to be thrown out at the end on your duff when you’re in your 50's. But honestly, there is a lot of myopic thinking and entitlement views coming from so many of these Rust Belt workers. Sure GM and other…

Cue thousands of weird nerds on the defense 

At what point does “it’s a concern they’re not making money even after reaching a half dozen self proclaimed milestones that would allegedly cause them to start making money” become “Tesla is fucked”?