chef’s kiss levels of layered irony here.

A)The market distributing housing based on gambling instead of need is irrational

B) still believing TSLA will somehow redeem itself instead of continuing to slowly unravel like a cheap coat is irrational

C) preferring homelessness to losing investment positions already massively losing value is irrational, literally sunk cost fallacy, but HODL my dude 🦍💎👏🤑

D) if we ignore the insane predatory distribution of housing as a moral issue and accept this bizzaro world distribution system as it is, YOU’RE THE MARKET ASSHOLE. THE ONLY REASON TSLA EVER GOT SO HIGH WAS BECAUSE OF IRRATIONAL MANIACS LIKE YOU ENDLESSLY PROPAGANDIZING MUSK, SOY FACING WHILE LICKING HIS BOOTS AND CONVINCING YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO SO THE SAME. YOU’RE THE PROBLEM. THIS IS THE MARKET ACTUALLY CORRECTING FOR A GODDAMN CHANGE, AND YOUR RESPONSE IS TO DOUBLE DOWN? YOU’RE GOING TO DIE. YOU’RE GOING TO DIE BEFORE THE MARKET WILL EVER BE RATIONAL, BECAUSE MARKETS DON’T MAKE RATIONAL DECISIONS, AND YOU’RE A MORTAL LITTLE SPECK OF EMBODIED HUMAN CAPITAL AND WHEN THE MACHINE HAS NO USE FOR YOU IT WILL DISCARD YOU WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD LINE MUST GO UP.

E) living in a Tesla is a terrible decision. You can buy a good minivan for less than $5000 Dollars and do a no build camper build in it for much better quality of life. Link for comrades who might genuinely need it–i know I might in the near future pain https://youtu.be/25VBk8AOqRQ?si=mfyXb8YfPP69ne6-

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    53·
    7 months ago

    Step 1: Tesla goes bankrupt because it’s a growing ball of contradictions falling further and further behind Chinese EVs every day

    Step 2: Software updates and hardware manufacturing cease for cars and proprietary chargers

    Step 3: Brain genius is homeless in his bricked car that looks expensive enough to rob

      • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        7 months ago

        If the market had stayed where it was in 2016~, yes. I think it’d get the GM-style bailout because it represents the country’s manufacturing capacity for EVs more than it does an individual company. However I think there are two big dynamics which will fuck that:

        1. Tesla was a company built in the 0% interest era. Its value is drastically overstated and divorced from what it actually produces in terms of scale or national importance. It’s irrationally tied to a personality cult and hype which that personality has poisoned. The price spikes when Elon lies about a feature he won’t deliver on and it falls when the freaks who love Tesla don’t have a utopian lie to jerk themselves off over. He built it as a luxury brand, but the cars are cheaply made and the social prestige of owning one is rapidly eroding.

        2. Tesla was an early entry into the EV market, but it is no longer the only American player. The recipients of those bailouts last time now have EV lines and much more established political influence. They’re mostly union factories with the UAW in the favour of the democrats. Even if the best case bailout scenario happened and Tesla was nationalised, the government would have a small production line directly competing with Ford and GM without any kind of unique advantage beyond branding.

    • waluigiblunts [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      Step 2: Software updates and hardware manufacturing cease for cars and proprietary chargers

      Other manufacturers are adopting Tesla’s (formerly proprietary) NACS charging standard. Even if Tesla’s car making operations fail, they will still exist as a charging station entity, maintaining the Tesla Supercharger network.

  • assyrian@hexbear.netEnglish
    35·
    7 months ago

    TSLA is an absolute shit stock. it’s down a lot since the ATH, but isn’t it still valued more than every car company combined extremely overvalued? it still has a long way to drop, probably goes <100.

    everyone hates e~l~o~n, Tesla sales in China will go to zero, the Cybertruck is dog shit, they have nothing for the future, they’re nowhere close to self-driving, you can go on forever.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      It really doesn’t matter as long as dumb people throw money at the stocks. But it will be funny when some investment fund dumps their shares and the value crashes.

  • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    30·
    7 months ago

    I choose to own TSLA stock and a tesla instead of a mortgage right before housing prices went up

    ngl, that’s a pretty good birth control strat

    • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      16·
      7 months ago

      “hey, want to come back to my place? It’s in the parking lot. Just shove the parking tickets and piss bottle to the side, there’s plenty of room for fun”

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    19·
    7 months ago

    F) Living in your car is illegal in some states (cities?) because the homeless are basically America’s domestic enemy #1; what’s legal today could be illegal tomorrow with literal examples of it happening.

    • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      16·
      7 months ago

      Yes–which is why “stealth camping” is a worthwhile thing to consider as you think about a camper van as an option. Buy a used all white cargo van for a start. Maybe slap some fake “business” logo on it for extra plausibility. You want the kind of thing that’s not going to stand out in a quiet neighborhood or industrial park. That’s just the start, though. Other tips include making sure light isn’t visible from the outside so folks can’t tell you’re living in there, make sure once you’re parked for the night you’ve got everything you need to sit tight so people don’t see you going in and out, lots of tips like that for stealth camping.

  • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    7 months ago

    It’s interesting how prior to Elon Musk becoming a household name and the 2020 crypto boom, I never really saw a concentration of stupid people like this. Even when I did encounter fascists, they at least talked like human beings, albeit vile ones, and not like those bot threads where they pretend to be having a back and forth conversation with each other before casually mentioning the name of a fake scam service