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Direct quotes:

"People in blah also can't understand how we spend half of their monthly income on some organic blah drink.", qaq

"$2000 earned by the cars while not used by owner", palakchokshi (it's clarified elsewhere in the comments that that's $2000 per month)

"when I add 2 electric cars, the savings nearly triple", 11thEarlOfMar (to be fair, he seems to be almost free of the reality distortion field, but still the idea of buying two $70k cars to _save_ money is ridiculous)



> "People in blah also can't understand how we spend half of their monthly income on some organic blah drink.", qaq

That's pretty clearly a true statement. Qaq isn't claiming he is in this market. Just deriding the oft-expressed belief by people who are not in a market that said market does not exist.

> "$2000 earned by the cars while not used by owner", palakchokshi (it's clarified elsewhere in the comments that that's $2000 per month)

He's just running calculations? I don't understand what the problem with this is.

See my prior edit wrt the 3rd one.


Running calculations on what? Tesla's aren't even self driving in the first place. And there is no market for self driving uber cars yet. Who knows how much you can make off them. And if it was really 2k a month, Telsa would probably sell them straight to Uber instead of customers.


I'm not defending the quality of the calculations. Just pointing out that I don't think there was anything tone-deaf about doing them.




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