Elon Musk Trapped Tesla Shareholders: Give Me $1 Tril or I Won't Lie for You
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The article accuses Elon Musk of leveraging Tesla shareholders for a massive $1 trillion compensation package by allegedly misrepresenting company performance, sparking debate among commenters about Tesla's actual progress and Musk's credibility.
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That's wild ... I've not seen much in the way of this specific of an advertisement before.
I understand the faith people have in Musk based on SpaceX, but that doesn't seem to be translating to cars and robots.
We're at over a trillion in margin debt in the US stock market now, according to some reports. That's a few thousand $ per capita here, though some of that comes from abroad, some is used for options or complicated shorting strategies or whatever, but like some successful pros point out, black swan moments happen with regularity, though unpredictable, a "not a question of if, but when"