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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are you seriously suggesting that a company (tesla) that does 50 billion in sales is NOT worth three times the value a company that does 250 billion (toyota)?

The Tesla valuation is such a fucking joke. They are a "bigger" company that Toyota, Honda, or Ford despite not even doing a fraction of their outright sales, and likely making less on every single one of those sales. Their only advantage is that they were making electric cars before it made economic sense to make them. Now that everyone else is jumping in they are going to die on the vine because people can get a real EV that costs half of a Tesla and actually works.

Tesla DID have a chance of leveraging their early market presence by either introducing a higher quality or cheaper vehicle that could compete with their new competitors. Their existing presence could have captured enough of the market to stand against them if they had a product that was in the same league. Instead they made the fucking Cybertruck.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right, so it’s a bad company, like I said.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You were today years old when you first encountered sarcasm on the internet, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Socially acceptable way to be toxic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wait, what? Your comment doesn't read like sarcasm at all.