• @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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    822 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.

    • @kerrigan778@lemmy.world
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      18 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)

      • @slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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        21 day 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?

        • SeekPie
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          23 hours ago

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

          • Dyskolos
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            -71 day ago

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

              • Dyskolos
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                12 hours ago

                Or those. Doesn’t even matter to the fact that he won’t.

            • @CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml
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              22 hours ago

              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.

              • Dyskolos
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                13 hours ago

                There’s always more. And even, in the best case possible, he had to pay solely and completely alone, you really think he’d even notice? In the time I wrote this he made more.

            • SeekPie
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              223 hours ago

              I was under the impression that the company owner pays for insurance?

              • silly goose meekah
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                123 hours ago

                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.

                • Dyskolos
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                  13 hours ago

                  Both will, but sure as hell not musk. And even if he’d pay 1000x the cost, he wouldn’t even notice and still grin at this “rebellion”.

    • @casmael@lemm.ee
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      172 days 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.

      • @ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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        71 day 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…

        • @slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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          23 hours ago

          Most people i “know” who drive teslas are not car guys at all, they don’t know anything about the whole musk ordeal, they just bought a tesla because these were the only ev’s to buy, other than the bolt and the bmw i3 or the nissan leaf or the little honda. And the tesla, just looking at them was the only one that looked like a “real” car.

      • CaptainBlagbird
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        51 day ago

        I’m against wasting, even if it’s a Tesla, but maybe in this case it helps avoid wasting a lot in the future…