• fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Seriously. If Elon shut down Tesla tomorrow all these engineers would be building electric cars at other companies.

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      7 months ago

      Does (or does not) he get the credit for committing the fraud that kept Tesla in business long enough to popularize* electric cars that there are other companies at which to build them?

      Aforementioned fraud:

      (When searching, found apparently jurors in 2023 disagreed with my assessment, so please take with grain of salt.)

      *I say “popularize” given:

      Tesla was incorporated in July 2003 by [not Elon! but] Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors.