[camjohnson26]

It has become so valuable, more valuable than the rest of the auto industry combined at one point despite much lower revenue and sales numbers, because of loose monetary policy by the Federal Reserve creating artificially inflated asset prices. The Federal Reserve is directly responsible for Musk’s disproportionate wealth as Tesla stock zoomed past ridiculous levels.

Tesla has been successful in many of its lines of business and succeeded when many thought they couldn’t, that is undebatable. The failure of our system is that its stock price is completely out of line with the reality that reflects that success.

[nerdawson]

> loose monetary policy by the Federal Reserve creating artificially inflated asset prices

You can buy shares in other car manufacturers. Why would Tesla disproportionately benefit from inflated asset prices?

[camjohnson26]

Because car companies are boring, and in an era of cheap money the meme wins. “Sexy” automakers also got insane multiples, look at where Lucid and Rivian were trading. But the capital is diverted to whatever asset people think will keep going up, not the one that will create value in the form of profits. This is also why GameStop, AMC, DogeCoin, Shiba Inu, NFTs, Pokémon cards, etc. were trading so high, the meme is the only thing that matters.

Elon Musk knows this and is a master at harnessing this power, which is why he’s shamelessly pumped DogeCoin and Shiba. He continually pushes his company to be the most popular brands by promising impossible futuristic products that cannot exist, but build excitement. Countless examples of these, but a few are Full Self Driving, a flying Roadster, the Tesla semi, solving transportation issues with tunnels, the Tesla bot, $25k model 3, solar roof that costs less than a normal roof, robotaxi, etc etc etc. It’s all calculated.

[Anon1096]

You've basically written a lot of words here to say that Musk is making companies people want to invest in, and somehow that's the Fed's fault.

[camjohnson26]

You’re missing the key point then. People want to invest in NFTs too, and if you don’t see why that’s a problem you’re willfully blind.

[avalys]

Why is what other people do with their money a problem for you?

I think NFTs are stupid, but I don't think they're "a problem".

People spend lots of money on stuff I find stupid. I would never buy a Gucci handbag, they have about as much value as an NFT. But if someone else wants to, it doesn't hurt me, so, so what?

[camjohnson26]

Because it added fragility to the economy, just like people over paying for mortgage backed securities in 2008. If it was a few foolish individuals that would be different, but reckless speculation has been actively encouraged by the Fed across the whole economy, NFTs are just one example.

[cycomanic]

So people also wanted to invest in Bernice Madoffs scheme, you didn't see a problem with that either?

[peyton]

Yeah he’s a fundraising beast. It’s part of his job duties.

[Rury]

Because Tesla is in major indexes like the NASDAQ composite, and S&P 500, as well as many major/popular funds/ETFs. Additionally, many funds are weighted by market cap (so more expensive companies get even more disproportionate investment). And the majority of stock investment activity happens through these investment vehicles today.

Generally, anyone who puts money into a 401k, will likely have some of it going to Tesla and disproportionately over other auto companies - simply because how funds are typically weighted.