I’m starting to get a little concerned that the thousands of fake twitter accounts and the few actually real accounts who have their facts twisted by all the fud are taking a toll on Elon. I kinda wish he would just stop replying. I’m new to the forum so not sure if this is the best place to make this comment, if not point me in the right direction. Seems obvious to me they are trying to get him to crack. I actually fear for his safety. Is this crazy? Seems like big oil and the other automakers are getting extremely threatened by him and the crap is really ramping up.
Oh, look, another thread about this. I searched, and it looks like I haven't had the opportunity to explain my point of view of this issue inside this thread, but I already have elsewhere. First, the fundamentals, which I already wrote here:
TSLA Market Action: 2018 Investor Roundtable. I get an opportunity to edit my message, and I do so using italics for new stuff.
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I think it's a testament to the human condition
of enlightened self interest that almost all people involved in businesses where they can help people in need
in a condition in something that their business does tend to do so. This has been done before by many similar companies to those which Elon is CEO, that have expertise in various types of activities that can be similar to the situations for those being helped. It helps everyone: it helps the companies learn how to apply their knowledge and skills to adaptive situations, which helps other humans, and helps those companies work in different conditions and learn to try new things. It helps the people being helped in those situations. It used to happen before Twitter, before electric vehicles, before SpaceX, and it continues to happen today. Elon is following in a long tradition of people with knowledge and resources in a certain area of expertise doing what they can to help, and in return they get to learn how to try their ideas out in real life situations and learn more about doing it. Elon's company will gain experience in digging holes in Earth (Boring Co), on Mars (whoever goes up there, maybe including SpaceX), energy adaptation (Tesla).
All you have to do is turn up stories by any old man who has been involved in these industries. I'm sure Bill Wattenburg, an old AM radio host on KGO, had some stories to tell about rescue efforts of one type or another, if you asked him. Or you could ask your uncle in any similar business.
The only novel thing about today is that it is today. You can buttress that statement up however you want to, by saying it's being done on Twitter, by an electric car company, (in witness of TMC), and by a rocket company, that wants to go to another planet, but every other time in the past and every other time in the future will be that time's first in that situation, too. This was done when ham radio was avante-garde. When the telegraph was. By energy companies (oil, natural gas), by exploration companies (of all types), by infrastructure companies (of many names). And so on. And it will be in the future. And it should happen every time.
Elon is doing as he is wont to do, as many before him were wont to do, and many hence will be wont to do, and as they should and can do. And it helps everyone.
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Now, my response to your concern about trolls:
Being trolled is how you know you've won.
. To soon?
