Economic boycotts are fine. They do go both ways(see The Oscar tv ratings). Your neighbor is more concerned with virtue signaling and avoiding financial pain. By the way, how do they reconcile their concern for the environment when they go buy a gas guzzler to replace their Tesla? I'm not going to nominate them for the Mother Theresa award.
I'm fine with economic boycotts, of course. This is asking me to more than boycott, though; it's asking me to make a fairly sizable financial sacrifice for essentially no impact. I agree on the virtue signaling front. As for how they reconcile, I have no idea. Maybe they drive a Prius?
Well said, Reid. I also have a Tesla on a three year lease and have become a bit embarrassed. I also live in a liberal area with lots of Teslas, so I recently got the bumper sticker that says I love the car but hate Musk. Makes me feel a little better. My lease also has no buyout option, which I assumed at the time was because Tesla figured they could make more money taking it back and selling it. I recently received an email from Tesla stating that I now have the option to buy out the lease. Ha! They can have it back when my lease is up and add it to all their other unsold cars.
Hi Reid, just found your subtack via LinkedIn! Excited to read more.
It seems clear that $7,500 is an unreasonably high cost for you to bear in this case. But suppose you could return the Tesla at no financial cost, and the only cost was the time it took you to return it? Do you think your argument that your individual actions are insignificant would still hold?
If so, it seems like that argument would also apply to voting, eating vegetarian, and a bunch of other collective action problems. Do you think people have moral obligations in these cases, or are all these acts supererogatory?
While I think some of Elon's behaviors are questionable like fathering so many children from so many women and Neuralink, his government audit should be commended unless you're getting your grifted money cut off.
Economic boycotts are fine. They do go both ways(see The Oscar tv ratings). Your neighbor is more concerned with virtue signaling and avoiding financial pain. By the way, how do they reconcile their concern for the environment when they go buy a gas guzzler to replace their Tesla? I'm not going to nominate them for the Mother Theresa award.
I'm fine with economic boycotts, of course. This is asking me to more than boycott, though; it's asking me to make a fairly sizable financial sacrifice for essentially no impact. I agree on the virtue signaling front. As for how they reconcile, I have no idea. Maybe they drive a Prius?
At least it's the magnetic kind.
Well said, Reid. I also have a Tesla on a three year lease and have become a bit embarrassed. I also live in a liberal area with lots of Teslas, so I recently got the bumper sticker that says I love the car but hate Musk. Makes me feel a little better. My lease also has no buyout option, which I assumed at the time was because Tesla figured they could make more money taking it back and selling it. I recently received an email from Tesla stating that I now have the option to buy out the lease. Ha! They can have it back when my lease is up and add it to all their other unsold cars.
Thanks, Lee! I generally hate bumper stickers but I may have to get that one myself.
These Tesla and anti-DOGE riots/protests are what happens when you can't win on law and ideas.
https://shorturl.at/FYDtt
Being mad at the people uncovering the fraud and waste and not at the ones causing it perfectly sums up the state of the Left nowadays.
Hi Reid, just found your subtack via LinkedIn! Excited to read more.
It seems clear that $7,500 is an unreasonably high cost for you to bear in this case. But suppose you could return the Tesla at no financial cost, and the only cost was the time it took you to return it? Do you think your argument that your individual actions are insignificant would still hold?
If so, it seems like that argument would also apply to voting, eating vegetarian, and a bunch of other collective action problems. Do you think people have moral obligations in these cases, or are all these acts supererogatory?
Only an NPC buys into this stuff.
A non-player character in a video game? I don't understand.
While I think some of Elon's behaviors are questionable like fathering so many children from so many women and Neuralink, his government audit should be commended unless you're getting your grifted money cut off.
NPC: https://imgur.com/a/vV7CqFX
This is reinforced by the fact there is growing evidence that these Tesla "protests" are being funded.
The Left is absolutely delusional and I believe it is becoming obvious to even the most uninvolved person.