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Originally Posted by WarrenC12
Nope. I would buy another Tesla tomorrow if my car was totaled.
I don't like plenty of what Musk tweets, but Teslas are still far ahead of any other offering on the EV market.
Let's not pretend the other options are saint worthy. Did we forget VW cheating on emissions testing... multiple times?
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Let's also not pretend that nothing being perfect is the same as everything being equal. It's basically like when people don't bother to vote because no party or candidate is perfect, or major moral or ethical violations of a candidate because they promised to lower taxes or something. I'd argue that the economy has an equal or greater influence over society compared to the government, and our choices as consumers are therefore equally important as voting. Obviously it's tough to scrutinize every transaction a person makes (I'm probably not researching the maker of my LAN cable or something) but a strong argument can be made for doing so for very large transactions worth tends of thousands of dollars.
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Originally Posted by WarrenC12
Musk can't keep himself off twitter, like Trump in that regard.
Imagine if we got the daily musings of Bezos, Steve Jobs, or Bill Gates (when he was running MS in the 90s). I don't think they'd be much different.
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Why would we care what people think? The issue is what they do and say. What people in the public eye choose to do and say is kind of important. If others are thinking the same things and not saying them, that actually makes their judgement and restraint more impressive, and shows by contrast why some people aren't cut out for the public eye. Imagine if say, a boss told an employee he wanted to bang her, and when she said that was inappropriate, he replied, "Well I'm sure all your previous bosses were thinking the same thing, but I'm just very open with my feelings"
But it's true that the more factors a consumer includes in their decision, the more challenging it becomes and the more likely it is to have to make compromises. That's the way it is with consumer choices regardless as there can be different products that do best in different areas such as cost vs features vs style vs reliability vs efficiency etc. Adding in the behaviour of the company or its owners is just another factor. But I realize that which things a person considers important varies from person to person. For me, labour relations is particularly important and companies that are anti-union are a NO. It's why I actually canceled my Amazon prime and stopped buying from them after their antics with the Alabama union campaign.