• ch00f@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    For everyone blaming his politics for the decline, you clearly weren’t paying attention when 75% of Tesla shareholders voted to pay him a $1T bonus last November.

    The people dealing with stocks don’t care about his politics.

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      They love his politics, I wonder how many he helped out cutting up regulatory agencies that may have been looking into their own companies they’re CEOs to.

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    Good god, people were actually believing in that stock? Fucking idiots. 😂

    That’s a meme stock, or something you buy a single share of just to say you have it. That wasn’t ever going make you rich, certainly not in the short run.

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      If you wanted to gamble some money on it the only smart play was obviously to aim for something safe like 10% and ride the first 24 hour pump and dump. I considered it but the whole thing felt just too dumb even to risk that.

      It’s mad that anyone thought this was anything but a panicked debt rescue and exit scheme

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    What… did they think was gonna happen??? It was a huuuuge pump and dump wealth transfer. It was so fucking obvious

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    -24% since IPO is still crazy high. I expected it to drop at least 50% day one. But alas, people are idiots

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    You don’t understand, Elon is a genius and this is all part of his plan. /s
    Btw, now that his stocks are plummeting, do you think banks will make him pay them back? That would be fun.

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    If you can’t keep up with the corrupt big boys who own and manipulate the stock market then buy a fucking RRSP. There is no such thing as a free lunch (unless you are one of the corrupt big boys who own and manipulate the stock market).

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    It’s so hard to believe how people put so much money into a completely unknown stock (and with the joker Elon Musk involved in it) on day one. These people are not on their first day as investors but they are sure acting like it.

    I think too many kids grew up on social media and believe whatever they read there. Fed by algorithms.

    Even though, these guys have so much money so I guess it’s adults? It’s pretty shocking.

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      Their valuation was made based on the potential for every company to be using the product. No other companies outside of Musk-owned ones are valued that way. Many are valued on the average of a few years of revenue multiplied by 10.

      It is blatant corruption and market manipulation. Anybody investing in such a company should expect to be holding bags within 24 hours.

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        Indeed, someone with a deep fanaticism for Musk posted exactly that scenario as inevitable. This was to stand by his man when Musk asserted that SpaceX should be worth more than everything else on earth combined (he was pissed that spcx had fallen).

        The dude claimed that by 2038 the 20 biggest companies would all be entirely space based exclusively, and that globally SpaceX would be the sole provider of space technology and the other 19 companies would be tenants of SpaceX. It all made sense to him because space is bigger than earth, right?

        I can’t find it, but among the usual suspects (space mining, space datacenters, terra forming), I was especially amused that his hypothetical “space banking company”, because for some reason the financials of space companies needed to be managed by a company that could get stuff launched into space?

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        Which is amazing because it’s somewhere between 4th and 15th place in the LLM race. Let’s say you really believe in a winner-takes-all scenario for AI where the winner gets to monetize harder than Google… Why would you invest in SpaceX? I don’t understand the scenario in which SpaceX makes loads of money off of AI. Maybe with space datacenters, assuming that’s even possible? But if that’s the plan, why spend lots of money training their own model rather than renting out racks of GPUs?

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          Makes sense, but didn’t DOGE steal/transfer social security admin and other US government databases on every American for their AI training. Maybe that access was their implied/wink wink advantage over others?