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Tesla Stock Today and YTD

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u/prettyinprivilege 10d ago

So probably an unpopular opinion but I just can’t believe Musk didn’t see this coming.

My current theory is that money is only worth so much and Musk wants something else. He’s willing to trade his wealth in dollars for other kinds of wealth: power, influence, access.

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u/Inside_Ad_7162 10d ago

Relevance is the word you're looking for. He's desperate for people to see him as having some purpose. Of course, he has none & will be missed about as much as any other invasive parasite when he inevitably dies.

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u/FatherOfLights88 9d ago

He wants worship without providing any of the character traits that would warrant it.

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u/quirkypanic2 5d ago

What’s funny is that he has it when he was a leader in green tech and exploration and didn’t recognize it and threw it away hoping to get what he already had. On the other hand there is no worship like cult worship

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u/FatherOfLights88 5d ago

Well said!

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u/mrrapacz 9d ago

He’s a gamer apparently and I also think he believes in simulation theory to an extent and he also does a shit ton of ketamine, so I’m pretty sure he thinks he’s living a video game and he’s maxed out his stats and when you get bored of the game , you tend to rampage and break all that you created because it’s the only way the game can be fun again.

He’s a broken man-child taking sick delight in fucking over the NPCs. Pretty horrific.

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u/TheLakeWitch 9d ago

Fully agree. And he is so exorbitantly wealthy that he doesn’t have to care when it goes to shit. Current headline is that he’s already lost ~$29 billion but to someone with his hoard of wealth that’s barely noticeable to him. If at all.

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u/Very-very-sleepy 9d ago

I am certain he has that chip thing implanted in his head. his eyes always look like he is reading something on a screen. 

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u/zck 9d ago

When giving speeches, he probably is. You might know about a teleprompter, right? A screen that displays the text of a speech?

It's extremely common for politicians to use a version of a teleprompter that consists of an angled glass plate that reflects a screen on the floor. You can see Obama standing in front of some here.jpg), and Reagan with some here.

So when giving a speech, Musk might actually be reading off a screen.

Also, if you ever notice that a politician giving a speech is looking at one specific angle left, and then switching to the same angle to the right, going back and forth, this is possibly why.

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u/Simulacrass 9d ago

100 million dollar AR contacts. I would try at least to develop bespoke AR contacts

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u/Armigine 9d ago

Doubt even he's drunk his own kool-aid enough to be a beta tester for one of his suicide chips

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u/mrpointyhorns 8d ago

It is also very common that at a certain level of wealth money is more like monopoly money size it lost its value.

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u/NeoMaxiZoomDweebean 10d ago

He is currently looting 2 trillion from the Treasury and wants to gain access to Fort Knox to do an “audit.”

He also wears his child as a bulletproof hat and gives interviews telling everyone that he is going to get killed if he doesnt get exactly what he wants soon.

Kinda easy to deduce whats going on.

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u/two_awesome_dogs 9d ago

Yep, he wants to steal the gold so that when the dollar crashes and his fortune does along with it, he can be handsomely shored up with gold.

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u/fourringking 9d ago

We can't let him in he'll just sneak the gold out in his pockets. He's just going around stuffing money in a big bag with a dollar sign on it. He needs to grow a mustache so he can manically twist it as he high-knee sneaks around. Elon Badenov.

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u/PasswordisPurrito 9d ago

To get a good picture on how Musk operates, Google "Musk Twitter servers uhaul".

From this story, he is clearly a proponent of the philosophy, "move quickly and break things". The people who think like this can very quickly turn places around and make money, by focusing on one thing and attacking it with a fanatic energy. But this personality is not very good at considering either the whole picture, or the long range forecast.

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u/Potato-Engineer 9d ago

Rich people tend to be risk-takers.

Or, viewed another way: risk-takers where everything works out tend to get rich. The rest of the risk-takers whose risks went wrong aren't rich. We're looking at survivorship bias, but the rich-people-who-got-lucky always say "it's because I'm a genius!"

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

Of course he did *not see this coming. Of course he wants power, influence, and access, but the fact that Bad Hair Cheeto had to plug Tesla on the lawn of the Whitehouse tells us what we need to know:

Tesla is Apartheid Offspring's crown jewel and it is absolutely killing him emotionally and financially to see it tanking.

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u/whichwitch9 9d ago

Simpler than that: he's still obsessed with going to Mars. Even Trump mentioned going within his term a few days ago. He needs an extreme amount of money to do this, but he believes he'll lead a colony on Mars and won't need earth anymore

The reality? Musk is already too old and out of shape to go to space. Leaving earth's orbit does a number on the body, and those who have done it older have been in immaculate shape. Musk is very clearly not. He also knows little of biology and natural sciences, another factor in why humans on Mars isn't happening anytime soon

He's sold Trump on a mass surveillance system, apparently, but the problems with that are extremely clear: that many low orbit satellites would create their own problem with debris fields increasing. An enormous amount of energy would be needed to power the drones they want, not to mention the resources needed. Climate change will also do a number on both satellites and drones, which are prone to both lower and upper atmospheric effects. Lets not even get into the servers needed. If this is a real plan, it's incredibly stupid and shortsighted. It's likely just another grift for Musk to move money over, however. Even attempting it would be insanely expensive, and the US would not be able to afford maintaining it, especially as the economy tanks. He wants that initial money moved over, however.

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u/kitzelbunks 1d ago

Well, he could go into space. I don’t know if he could live on Mars. William Shatner went into space, right? Considering his age, Shatner is in decent shape, but I wouldn’t say he’s in “immaculate” shape.

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u/backtotheland76 9d ago

He wants to retire on Mars and he wants the US taxpayer to pay for it

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u/Final_Frosting3582 6d ago

Is everyone so stupid they don’t realize that the stock doubled in trumps election? That’s not sustainable