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by password54321 2 hours ago
How much of that trillion is liquid? If people stopped buying a Tesla, would that somehow help the poor?

Making electric vehicles more mainstream seems like a net-positive to the world.

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Possibly. If they invested their money into something more societally productive and/or the government took their money to do that or they weren’t allowed to accumulate enough surplus wealth in the first place. Of course the last two options have been a bit problematic historically.
Objection: irrelevant deflection.
Bot account with a dramatic amount of comments in a short period of time. How do we let this nonsense through?