appreciate your thoughts Kruggerand
the biggest 'competition' so to speak is governments stepping in to protect the rest of players in the space, not the players in the space themselves who would soon no longer be players without governments stepping in.
In order for a society to stay competitive in a future world economy it will have to evolve, to except the emerging efficiencies in personal transportation and business.
After giving a presentation in China of the Boring Company’s concept of transportation tunnels under mass population centers, Musk stated that he was starting to believe China was the future.
Moving billions of people in a highly efficient manner would be a competitive advantage and that is what China is doing and going to do.
Any distractions caused by special interest or geo politics in the West only serve the East.
In China there are some 23 supercities that will have populations greater than New York and five alone will combine to house 120 million people, according to projections by Morgan Stanley.
With competition like that do you really want to embrace century old industries and business structures like auto dealerships? Of course not, yet here we are in the US, led by the party of Laissez-Faire Capitalism