@engle Just curious as to why hotels would hate Tesla? I'd actually think the opposite. I think Tesla is going to be great for mobility, reduce stress, give mobility to old, handicapped, and alcoholics. That would mean lots of additional hotel traffic. Just curious as to your reasoning, otherwise that's a good summary of the people that may loose on the road to EV and FSD. You could also put in auto repair (auto zone, advanced, reillys, etc), the two companies that make gas pumps (one owned by Danaher corp), not just the ICE but the ICE supply chain-some of which Tesla uses like paint, steel, aluminum and tool companies but in a shrinking market they all are losers, mechanic shops everywhere- used to be a good middle class job but it is going to be on the outs, truck driving unions.
So sure there are losers and this may be a very sad state of affairs for a young mechanic or truck driver or union employee in Detroit. So, lets moderate our gleefulness at big oils loss and have some compassion for the folks that will be sad casualties. Celebrate the better lives ahead for humanity in especially elderly, handicapped, folks with substance addictions, etc. Local tourism and dining out experiences should thrive with a new group of consumers. I'd think that lots of older people would be taking long road trips again- good for hotels.
@nativewolf Thanks! I did leave out the categories you added. As far as the hotel industry, a 500-mile EPA range vehicle with FSD will be affordable in the future. In the near future, say 2-3 years, one should be able to rent a 300-500 mile EPA range Cybertruck for less than a hotel room that can easily sleep two people in the back on a comfortable mattress. Imagine a road trip where you sleep in the back of your vehicle while it drives you overnight to the next destination on its air suspension. One just needs the appropriate safety restraint system & airbags in case a non-FSD vehicle slams into the Tesla.
This is more efficient than the hotel check-in / unpack / pack / check-out process. Why would you need a motel or hotel except to take a shower unless you can afford and want to stay at a resort? IMHO it will reduce the demand for road trip hotel rooms. Many locations will offer an hourly rate so people can take a shower if they don't feel comfortable showering at a health club such as 24-hour Fitness.
Actually I do have a lot of compassion for millions of hardworking people that have and will lose their jobs due to the 4th industrial revolution driven by automation, AI and ML (Machine Learning). Normally I don't want to inject USA politics into an international Tesla forum, but that is why I support UBI (Universal Basic Income of $1,000 USD/month for all 18+) that is being championed by
Official Website of Andrew Yang for President. Andrew Yang calls it the "Freedom Dividend". $1,000 per month may not seem like much to people who live on the West or East coasts, but it goes pretty far in other states - especially if a family of 2-4 people is receiving it.
I grew up in the 1960s (lived 5 months in the 50's
). Besides reading everything I could get my hands on, I witnessed widespread riots triggered by racial discrimination, visited Little Rock, AR on a high school exchange program (Central HS), and watched assassination coverage and the horrible Vietnam War overseas on network TV. In the 70's I watched the summer Nixon impeachment hearings, and Richard's awkward wave goodbye before he boarded Marine One for the last time on the WH lawn.
Imagine the kind of widespread riots and violence that could be triggered by extreme financial disparity. Many people who have, are and will suffer financially from this tech revolution own or have easy access to weapons thanks to our misinterpreted second amendment (the definition of the word "arms" in "the right to bear arms"). Homelessness is up. Life expectancy has decreased because of the rise of opioid addiction and suicides. Unfathomable tragic mass shootings are on the rise. These are early indicators IMHO of societal problems ahead.
Did you know the USA and UK are the only governments left that have not been overthrown via violent means since 1776? Think about it. I recall there are only ~6 since ~1941.
It is in our own Declaration of Independence!
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In Congress, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that
mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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- Thomas Jefferson.
If the 1% and corporations that control the USA do not give UBI to the masses, they may well lose everything eventually.
I'm doing business and personal end of year tax planning today so I'll check back here later...
