The saddest thing about billionaires is their lack of high quality, constructive hobbies. Where are the public gardens they've built, where is the community neighborhoods they've designed and founded? Where are the terraforming and farmland reclaimation projects they've done? Where are their great library wings, public water features, hospitals and healthcare systems.

They contribute nothing. I don't want to see them dead, I just want to see them demoted to the lowest rungs of society.

Do you want to be a success in the field that made me rich? Let me tell you each and every one of my very profitable secrets! I want to flood the market with knowledgeable competitors so I can be broke! -- Every success grifter

You know who wins out in a gold rush?

The person selling picks.

LOL, anything connected to Elon Musk is the last place I'd trust my money.

And you’d be competing directly against the company that controls the platform. Tesla can undercut your prices, prioritize its own cars in the app, change the revenue split, or geofence you out entirely. You don’t own a business in that arrangement. You own the downside.

Well done, friend.

They're probably limiting their liability, the same way they partnered with local roofing companies to install solar roofs.

But as Electrek also reported on recently, Tesla discontinued solar roofs, and left those roofing companies with hundreds of thousands in losses from wasted investment.

The same pitch you hear from ads on instagram where they tell you the “secret” how to earn millions without doing anything. All you have to do is buy this eBook for $49

the fact that they wont just put a steering wheel on it and call it a model 2 tells me this is an investment scam.

I read this as Cybercrab and was immediately disappointed

Reminds me of the crypto mining rig kickstarter projects.

mechahitler controlled optimus robots are expected on the same "income plan". Musk has been saying FSD/full autonomous was 1 year away since 2015. OP is right to be skeptical. First Tesla shows it can run a robotaxi fleet, then you can consider buying one/several for same purpose, even though price would rise if it made money and didn't crash too often.

No shit...

Ya sure. Like he would give a thin dime (or cab) to anyone to make any sort of profit. Anyone who buys into that scam deserves everything they get and more and it surely will not be profit.

But I wanna live in the automate luxury communist future Elon promised!!

I’d disagree. The man tells that he’s selling perfume and it’s selling out instantly. I bet he’s just folding extra money on top of the profit. There isn’t any regulation so who can check?

I mean, fuck Musk, but the same would apply for literally any manufacturer of commercial or industrial equipment.

By this logic ASML would never sell their world-leading computer chip lithography machines. They would just run their own production lines instead.

On the other end of the cost spectrum, no manufacturer would ever sell robot vacuum cleaners or lawn mowers, instead contracting these out as cleaning services.

The truth is companies will sell profitable machines to other companies simply because the entirety of civilization is built on the specialization of labor. This applies to both individuals and groups of individuals. Sure, ASML could raise capital and try to invest in their own chip fabs, but why? If they have the money to invest, they would be better off buying more equipment and hiring more employees to make more of the tools they already sell. This company's machines are one of the major bottlenecks in global compute production. They can sell machines as fast as they can make them. They know how to make a really good lithography machine. They don't know how to run a full fab well. Instead they focus on just their one part of the industry.

Specialization of labor built civilization. It's why we're not still living in caves. I would never by a Cybercab because I don't want to give money to nazis. And it's actually likely that Musk is lying about the profitability of these things. At the same time, however, it is very poor logic to assume that simply because a company is selling a piece of commercial or industrial equipment means that equipment is unprofitable to own.

You could apply the same logic to airlines, most aircraft manufacturers don't operate passenger services using the aircraft they manufacture.

And yet, airlines make money.