The funniest thing about libertarians worshipping @elonmusk is that he's basically the villain from Atlas Shrugged. He makes all his money from government subsidies and contracts, and by wildly exaggerating production to pump up stock prices.
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Replying to @existentialcoms
Our giant auto co competitors have much greater access to incentives than Tesla, which means Tesla has prospered in spite of govt subsidies, not because of them. Tesla mkt cap has *risen* over time as EV incentives declined. How strange …
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Replying to @elonmusk
The government invested more money in Telsa & SpaceX than you, by far. They have no voting shares because you sell off overinflated stocks to keep the public from having a say in your run your publicly funded companies. Subsidies are a drop in the bucket.http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html …
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Replying to @existentialcoms
That article was pushed as propaganda to counter IMF study showing fossil fuel subsidies to be $5 trillion/year. Even if $4.9B was true, combined market cap of Tesla & SpaceX is $80B. Where did the other $75B come from? Ass
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Replying to @elonmusk
Jesus dude, market cap isn't what was invested. You put in like $70 million of the money you got from ripping people off with PayPal. The government put in half a billion. If you allowed that money to be vested into shares, they would OWN part of that market cap.
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Replying to @existentialcoms
No use arguing with chimp. You’re blocked.
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Hmmm. Isn't that rather like being a...special snowflake...to block people with whom you disagree? 


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Replying to @EquinoxValue @gorskon and
I must have caught him on a good day ... he only muted me ...
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