cute kid, he reminds me of my son!
the sad thing is, he basically gets it ... do research, try to draw logical conclusions. he even understands predicting the future is hard. kudos to him.
his only mistake is trusting the information available to him, and that's a very sad lesson. he did his due diligence and honestly researched the company, only to be fed a ton of disingenuous articles written by authors with ulterior motives clubbing Tesla and its stock price. his conclusion was totally reasonable, even though it was absolutely wrong.
i remember being so optimistic and excited in the 90s when the internet first started becoming a widespread consumer product -- i was convinced access to so much pure information, and the crowdsourcing involved in sifting through it all, would lead ultimately to truth winning out over mistakes, misconceptions, myths, lies, and propaganda. I really thought such massive access to verifiable information would build a latticework of quality information that we'd all be operating from, and it'd be harder for untrue things to propagate and perpetuate themselves.
yeah, yeah, wipe those tears of laughter away. BOY HOWDY DID I MISS ON THAT ONE.
if anything, the opposite seems to be the case. anyone peddling anything that's not true, for any reason, can simply use the massive scope of the internet to find like-minded peers anywhere in the world to reinforce almost any arbitrary belief. And with a little work and persistence, it's not hard at all to make a crackpot theory seem like a legitimate alternative viewpoint.
truth is more muddied than ever, and doesn't seem to have any inherent advantage over fiction regardless of how much information is made available. that realization shocked me. ultimately, it's simply a defect in human nature, and access to technology isn't going to solve that (unless we're talking about technology that fundamentally alters our own wiring).
