writetoalok

“Past performance is no guarantee of future returns!”

Share capital value is used in more than a few places. Like taking out a loan on your TSLA shares

And what would you say for the behemoth that is $AAPL?

We have had better iPhones for 10+ years … and maybe the iPad, Watch and Airpods… this from the richest gizmo company.. No Apple Car… Pervasive Health product is a long way from the current watch

Now tell me again about $TSLA valuation ?!

Read their statement in the article

> "Tesla enters into contractual agreements with its general contractors, which allow them to select the resources they need for the job while also requiring them to hire and _pay_ their workers appropriately."

Do you think they did a good job in enforcing their own stated requirement?

Any client who permits people to work in their premises providing them with badges and security passes does minimal background checks. Now tell me what minimal background check would not have found their Visa Status and hence Visa fraud on the basis of B1 Visa person doing hands on job?

Do you still think Tesla was ignorant or closed their eyes purposefully?

Reminds me of the Harry Potter books. Somewhere in those stories, Dumbledore comments: "We are what we choose".

> We think we've figured out how to hack into the computer our universe is running on

Not sure someone with that kind of access will need seed funding with YCombinator or anywhere else. Unless their hack is unproven and unreliable, and up for immediate rejection.

> Just because something makes you money doesn't mean it's inherently good or useful, and it doesn't mean it should be protected by law.

Are we talking about patentable innovations, or something else? A lot of patentable innovations do not make anything, a lot things which are not patentable make boat load of bucks. Your comment seem to have clouded this distinction.

It seems to me that you are questioning the basis of government granted monopoly. But this grant is not on the basis of money generation, but on innovation and benefits to the society by disclosure.

Imagine if someone discovered and invented a principle and device for unlimited cheap source of energy. If he kept it to himself, it may definitely help him to unknown riches. And possibly the secret could die with him. But if he shared his secret sauce, then all of us in the society will benefit a lot. Patents are a means to that end. What do you think?

so why not have a link to a separate version (with automatic redirects) to the same content for tax paying Brits?

> the risk of death only frightens him from a view point of responsibilities

Which view point does death frighten you for?

> they want

That want is driven by ego.

I am not afraid of revealing my values. And what do I have to be careful about?

Cockroaches hide in dark places.

I submit that it is Elon's individual ego that drives him to strive for and achieve these goals. Its just that his goals seem broader to you than Arnie's. And to a large extent they are. But the goals are driven by his ego, and not some mumbo jumbo altruistic feeling.