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Tesla Recoil - Christopher Luxon ordered, then cancelled, taxpayer-funded Tesla, while criticising Tesla subsidies (www.nzherald.co.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by rjd to c/politics

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So Luxon, whilst bashing the gov about the clean car scheme and it being used to buy teslas, whilst owning his own tesla, whilst being a very rich person, was asking the crown to buy him another tesla. Sigh.

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[–] sixthcupofjoe 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Herald understands Luxon was talked out of ordering the car by horrified staff and at least one senior MP, who believed the purchase would be a massive political risk.

I think that pretty much sums up his independent decision making ability

[–] deadbeef79000 1 points 1 year ago

If you are rich enough, there are very few material consequences for doing stupid things.

E.g. make a mistake that costs you personally $100,000? OK, just try again with another $100,000.

This means that he's probably never had to actually suffer any meaningful consequences in his life. Few lessons learnt the hard way.

This makes for a stupid person. "Stupid is as stupid does" after all.