While I agree with the sentiment, if the face-value goal of this note becomes true, this has the same vibe as “Sell it to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?”
It lowers the value. If plenty of fairly new Teslas can be found fairly cheap, it will disincentivize people who do want a Tesla from buying new. Hopefully takes the stock price down, which is what most of Pres. Musk’s wealth is based on.
i mean. wouldnt rebadging it and putting a “fuck elon” bumper sticker be more of a message than selling it to another sucker?
(also ripping out the spyware laden computer system that reports all activity INCLUDING CAMERAS back to hitlerHQ and can remotely disable your car)
That’s the type of note that I would set fire to and drive away lol.
Imagine telling someone they need to sell their car because of something someone else did.
Y’all are straight up delusional at this point.
And to be clear I think the cybertruck is a fuck ugly piece of shit vehicle that doesn’t do anything very well, but I also don’t think anyone has the right to tell other people what cars they can and cannot drive.
Awesome, I love the approach. 👍🏾
It always warms my heart to see actionable lists.
Even pointless ones that don’t result in fewer of the thing existing? Selling it just means passing off the note to the next person.
It’s never about making them not exist. It’s about destroying the value of the car, so fewer new ones are sold. If the used market is full of like-new versions for significantly lower prices, the number the company can sell will drop dramatically.
Musk’s wealth is largely in stocks. If we can make the value of his companies drop them we directly hurt his wealth. The cars don’t matter. The value of the company matters.
I honestly don’t understand what selling it does though. The same amount of teslas are still on the streets. Please help me understand.
It may reduce new sales
The advice isn’t about reducing the number of Teslas. It’s about helping someone get out of owning one. Also, that money doesn’t go to Elon, it goes to the seller, so to some people, they might consider that part a wash.
It’s about helping someone get out of owning one
You realize that if someone sells their Tesla, while they no longer own one, someone else does, right?
The point is crashing the market value of used Teslas, thereby reducing new sales as people will be more incentivized to buy used.
Sure, but the person selling doesn’t want it anymore and gets their money back. While at the same time; the person buying would have bought one anyway, potentially a brand new one. By selling your tesla to another driver, you’re bailing yourself out of a shit decision and taking one less buyer off the market further disrupting the companies income.
Every tesla bought off the used market is one less tesla purchased new, and Tesla the company only makes money off of new sales.
What’s wrong with owning one? Its a car and we can assume the owner has a need for it (obligatory “Fuck cars!”). It’s the buying of one with the knowledge we have now that is the issue.
Edit: I see a few downvotes so I must have said something wrong. What am I still not understanding?
It’s also an overpriced “luxury” vehicle, a terrible one with a boatload of recalls and recurring design issues. How long before we consider owning one to be like owning a Daewoo or Pinto?
We’ve also known what their CEO is about for a while now. Years in fact. And that same CEO is dismantling the US government and killing people with his actions. I think a lot of us see it this way: If someone still owns one, they get to “own” that they own it now.
So like what if you bought it used? That doesn’t profit the manufacturer, and there’s no way you’d be able to tell just looking at it.
I understand the frustration with Musk, but to sell the car someone else has to buy it and then that buyer is going to be bullied. I don’t think the frustration is being focused on the right thing here. Go protest or spend that time calling or writing to your representatives instead.
The working class infighting is not the way.
I agree the infighting is not helpful. I also think that we currently can’t use traditional bargaining and protest tools to effectively punish or otherwise shame those in power into concession. In this case, Musk is an oligarch who owns companies, like Tesla. People are shaming owners of these vehicles and pressuring them to sell because that is a very tangible way to hurt the oligarchs in our country, by hurting their purse. It’s the only thing they care about. It will either help lead towards concession, or ultimately wipe out the power they have. I think this is a form of solidarity, and those who care about that will go out of their way to distance themselves from the oligarchs who oppress us, including when trading or buying within our own class.
I get the sentiment and am on board 100% that Elon Musk is a fucking loser Nazi – but what a condescending note. Whoever wrote this note needs to mind their own business, and maybe take a week away from the internet.
Whoever wrote this wants the value of tesla to crash…
Definitely agree there. I get suggesting alternatives but literally everything they explicitly listed is really pricey. Assuming their tesla is paid off, who’d go another 20 to 30k in debt because of a note?
It would make more sense slap an anti Elon bumper sticker on and keep driving it until either EVs get cheaper or they can afford something different
Whoever made this probably thinks that the currently favored “call them all Nazis” approach is more likely to form/feed persecution complexes.
A simple ‘Swasticar’ sticker, for example, will make the owner feel personally attacked, even though it’s meant to be an attack on Musk and doesn’t really have anything to do with them.
