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Steve Hummel's avatar

Someone should suggest the 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale and the 50% debt jubileee policy at point of loan signing to Musk. He might like the idea of getting his full $60k for a Tesla but the consumer only having to borrow $15k to purchase it. Might even wake him up about the benefits of government money creation. Maybe he could take the additional profits from selling autos and start developing a "matter thrower" to cleanly get matter into orbit in order to assemble and off planet the worst carbon emitting means of production.

Also, if the continual build up of private debt is what de-stabilizes domestic economies maybe a 75% rate reduction in the biggest big ticket items might help that out.

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Ian Greig's avatar

Musk says something in a field in which Steve has genuine expertise and it is transparently idiotic. Maybe this should make us reflect a bit on how respectful we are of his achievements in the field of electric vehicles and space travel - maybe these are just industries in which he has been given the abilities to extract (quasi-)monopoly rents through public funding? (I believe there is a meme in which a software engineer says something equivalent about Musk's understanding of software engineering, making him never want to get in a Tesla or Space-X vehicle...).

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