During the latest Tesla stockholder meeting, CEO Elon Musk strongly suggests that the Cybertruck will see a starting MSRP above its initial $40,000 offer.
The chapo boys have made this point a few times, Musk serves a very vital role in this late stage of capitalism. He's the embodiment of technocratic hope that the future under this system is anything but doomed, he's the guy the a particular brand of PMC and STEM types can hold on to like a rosary while everything continues to go to shit.
So even though he literally cannot deliver on his promises and his cars are total crap - the QA on these "luxury" cars are horrendous, people are paying for cars more poorly made than a cheap major brand, to say nothing of the software - his company is still massively valued. Because Tesla as a company isn't a car manufacturer or a solar system engineering company or a software engineering firm at the frontier of AI it's just there to give people a false hope. So he can never be punished for failing to deliver or just straight up lieing. It doesn't matter if he does, he's fulfilling his role just by having made the statement.
He's exhausted his role and I have to assume he'll be phased out and replaced with New Guy in the next big business cycle. Dude's brain is pudding and he's only really good for celebrity gossip now.
In the meantime, Tesla did what it was supposed to do. It paved the way for another two or three generations of car culture, under the premise that Electric Car is more practical than Bus or Train.
The only thing that will really bring this system to its knees is the US losing access to cheap imports. That's going to hinge on us losing the Global South.
The chapo boys have made this point a few times, Musk serves a very vital role in this late stage of capitalism. He's the embodiment of technocratic hope that the future under this system is anything but doomed, he's the guy the a particular brand of PMC and STEM types can hold on to like a rosary while everything continues to go to shit.
So even though he literally cannot deliver on his promises and his cars are total crap - the QA on these "luxury" cars are horrendous, people are paying for cars more poorly made than a cheap major brand, to say nothing of the software - his company is still massively valued. Because Tesla as a company isn't a car manufacturer or a solar system engineering company or a software engineering firm at the frontier of AI it's just there to give people a false hope. So he can never be punished for failing to deliver or just straight up lieing. It doesn't matter if he does, he's fulfilling his role just by having made the statement.
Tesla manages to make Fiat/Chrysler's build quality look impressive.
He's exhausted his role and I have to assume he'll be phased out and replaced with New Guy in the next big business cycle. Dude's brain is pudding and he's only really good for celebrity gossip now.
In the meantime, Tesla did what it was supposed to do. It paved the way for another two or three generations of car culture, under the premise that Electric Car is more practical than Bus or Train.
The only thing that will really bring this system to its knees is the US losing access to cheap imports. That's going to hinge on us losing the Global South.