20 pointsby nothrowaways4 hours ago4 comments
  • dzonga2 hours ago
    people like George Noble while smart and arguing for common sense

    unfortunately lose when hysteria and foolishness i.e memes take over.

    Tesla is a meme stock. SpaceX will sell dreams about datacenters in space.

    as long as gullible foolish people believe in the meme or the fantasy dreams - arguing your case about valuation will just leave your pockets empty & voice dry.

    the only unfortunate thing is now retirement accounts might get torched.

  • rolph2 hours ago
    im not going to advocate for the devil, but the title seems to be the distilled essence of extractive business models.

    i think the problem starts with mistaking such business for a philanthropic or non profit model.

    that being said investors are a major "chattel" and if you abuse them, you start having problems.

  • toomuchtodo4 hours ago
    https://youtu.be/ag14Ao_xO4c

    “We are selling to willing buyers at the current fair market price.”

    • theplumber3 hours ago
      It’s worse!It’s more like someone found a bug into a legacy system(index funds) and is not exploiting along with some corruption bending the rules. A good chunk of population more or less directly will just end up holding the bags because they just followed the advice to buy index funds because companies are required to float % percentage, be profitable or whatever , and now the rules changed for this special Elon operation
      • toomuchtodo2 hours ago
        Hacker found an exploit, and exploited it.
  • kderbyma3 hours ago
    Obviously....the entire american stock market is manipulated like this.....America has to hide its inflation somehow right???? The $T peg is the beginning of hyperinflation and clearly the entire economy is disconnected from reality.....American economics are a farce right now...your country is weapons and memes....you build nothing, services are revoked by tech bros and the entire world suffers for it....musk is one of the players...not the whole team though...buffet....gates...bezos....altman....amodei....fake fake fake fake fake fake fake