Submitted by Most_readit t3_zvo4qv in Futurology
TheUmgawa t1_j1q8rg5 wrote
Well, the alternative to Musk exiting the company is the Tesla institutional investors exiting their positions in the company. At some point, they're going to have a Come To Jesus meeting with Elon Musk, where they tell him to settle the hell down or get the hell out, because they own significantly more of the company than he does, and he'd never be able to get the pension funds behind him if the alternative is for the stock price to plummet as the institutions exit their positions. Anything negative that happens with Tesla's share price would be the result of Elon Musk's own poor life choices.
As it stands, once the non-Tesla car manufacturers start rolling out vehicles that may not perform as well as a Tesla but cost half as much, they'll start grabbing market share, and that's when Tesla's stock will start to plummet, because the thing that's been keeping Tesla's stock price where it is is the faith that as the EV market goes up, Tesla will maintain its current 68-ish percent market share, and that is definitely not going to happen, especially if Musk is still throwing in with the deplorables, which means the very people who want to buy EVs are going to go, "Y'know what? I can just buy from one of these other companies."
And the rest of what you said is pretty much ludicrous, considering the five-year timeframe you've put on it. Particularly the point about the flu epidemic fatalities being the result of ineffective antibiotics, given that the flu is from a virus and antibiotics are always ineffective against viruses. I mean, come on, that's just basic science.
Oh, and the Russians definitely aren't landing on the moon in five years. Chinese, maybe, but if they do, they're establishing a permanent base because they didn't put enough fuel in the tanks to come back.
Most_readit OP t1_j1qfjp2 wrote
Thanks for your comments but re the flu if you look a bit closer I wrote that most deaths were due to secondary bacterial infections , which of course are treated with antibiotics normally
TheUmgawa t1_j1qrdtd wrote
Sure, and people don’t die from HIV; they die from diseases that they never would have gotten if they didn’t have HIV. You have to attribute credit where it’s really due.
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