• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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    14 hours ago

    I love on how it can work as Superman knowing what a piece of shit tesla is and doing nothing… but it can also be implied that it was superman who started the fire.

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    1 day ago

    See, now this would affect Elon Musk. Vandalizing people’s cars that may have been purchased 10 years ago doesn’t do anything.

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      10 hours ago

      It still does actually, tanking the resale value will dramatically cut into new car sales. Encouraging current owners to sell absolutely does have an affect.

      (It also raises insurance premiums for Tesla’s, also hurting their market)

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        19 hours ago

        If you burn down 10 cars at a tesla factory, doesn’t that just mean that they just sold 10 cars because i assume they are insured?

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          15 hours ago

          Insurance can (and probably will) increase prices if they’re more likely to be vandalized.

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            18 hours ago

            And guess who’s gonna pay for this in the long run. Musk? Lol. No, the average tesla-worker-joe.

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              I think it’s fair to say Musk already screws them to the maximum extent possible, so the degree to which they are screwed is probably not responsive to changes in insurance premiums and we can expect that to more or less come straight out of Musk’s pocket.

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                I guess they’re saying the workers will get lower pay/ no raises because of the increased operational costs.

                My best guess would be that the customers will have to deal with higher prices, though.

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      1 day ago

      Nah I’d say vandalising existing teslas definitely does something. It drives the narrative that this vehicle is a fucking liability and makes it difficult to ignore. I’m not condoning damaging peoples cars mind you, if it’s an older one they might just be caught in the crossfire. Nevertheless, it’s only a car.

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        22 hours ago

        Cybertrucks sure, fair game. Brand new Teslas, same. But I’m sure there’s decent folk that can’t sell their older Teslas today without taking a big loss…