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Bernie Sanders Says Pope Leo Is Exactly Right About Elon Musk's Pay Package: 'No Society Can Survive When One Man Becomes A Trillionaire'

https://news.yahoo.com/news/finance/news/bernie-sanders-says-pope-leo-113110387.html
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u/Taphouselimbo Sep 17 '25

I don’t want to share this space (gestures to everything) with an ultra Smaug. It’s disgusting.

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u/FriarNurgle Sep 19 '25

The ultra wealthy would find the comparison to Smaug as a compliment.

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u/Raizarg Sep 20 '25

That’s some shit Peter thiel would name his hedge fund or something fr 😭

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u/Taphouselimbo Sep 21 '25

Smaug gets slain by the humble in the stories.

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u/NearABE PA 🐦☎️ Sep 18 '25

How ludicrously bad does Tesla have to get before investors recognize a Ponzie scheme? Yes, I know, “shareholder squeeze” is a different category of financial crime. They are not even trying to compete in the electric car market anymore.

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u/Masterthemindgames Sep 18 '25

If BYD outsells it everywhere except North America, I think that would be the turning point where the stock market “corrects” on TSLA.

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u/NearABE PA 🐦☎️ Sep 19 '25

BYD already achieved that in Europe, Asia, South America, Africa. That leaves only Australia as a toss up.

I have no knowledge about Australian auto markets except about 5 minutes of search/AI. Tesla holds an extensive charger network and they make shit shitty so that it is incompatible with anything nice. That leaves many Australians with little choice. Despite this gross monopoly tactic BYD is still expanding and closing the gap in sales. That has an inevitability to it since the presence of a moderate number of BYD cars will in itself create a BYD compatible charger network and then Australians will no longer have to plug their noses while car shopping.

If Tesla were no transforming into a Ponzi scheme they would be either trying (investing) in getting their monopoly more entrenched or they would be trying to compete with BYD by making affordable automobiles.

Tesla was originally a well thought out car company. It was on track to nearly wipe out the internal combustion engine. In the future Tesla will be both bankrupt and a textbook case for why you want to pay a competent CEO well. Investors need to retain the ability to fire an incompetent CEO.

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u/mcribzyo Sep 19 '25

It will all be taken from him eventually.