The company's sales fell for a second year in a row, as Tesla looks to AI and robotics, including a new $2 billion investment in CEO Elon Musk's company xAI.

Poor Lonnie. May he cry himself to sleep on his MyPillow tonight.

  • [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
    58·
    3 months ago

    I honestly don’t know how Musks companies work.

    Tesla makes cars. Cars don’t sell, so profit drops. Musk uses SpaceX to buy Teslas. Tesla’s profit declines, Musk says it’s an AI company, then buys AI from his other AI company, which he funded from Tesla stock. Musk buys Twitter, twitter goes down in value. Musk buys Twitter from himself using xAI, for higher than its market value, then boasts stock gains?

    So now Tesla is going to buy AI from himself, and build robots that were just pantomimed guys in suits… and somehow… profit???

    I don’t know what the fuck is going on in this world. But I would absolutely love to see Tesla’s stock drop and all of this made up debt-financing fall apart like the house of cards it is. However, Musk saying “we’re making robots now” seems to have nicely papered over what should be a massive stock decline. After his last one “Tesla isn’t a car company, it’s an AI company” now it’s “Tesla isn’t an AI company, it’s a factory company”.

    • pastermil@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      25·
      3 months ago

      It’s simple in its principal, really…

      • you have multiple companies
      • one company (A) have some supply for some product
      • on the other company (B), you create demand for that product (i.e. for its operation)
      • thus, under your control, you make company A and B enter a trade agreement
      • as someone who brokered that deal, you get rewarded (e.g. from brokerage fee, or commision)
      • sometimes, by having a massive increase in sales, the stock for company A would increase, thus you can sell a little bit of it, which you can later buy back after the stock price goes back down
      • profit

      Some facts:

      • even though they’re your companies, you are a separate entity from them, and they are each its own entity
      • the money comes from the investors as well as profit, remember that they are separate
      • no, you cannot just take all the companies’ money, since even though they’re yours, there are corporate structures and other people at stake preventing that

      So you basically come up with some excuse for moving stuff around, then you come up with some excuse to siphon off some of that good stuff.

        • matlag@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          As much as I despise her (as much as the rest of that tech-bros lot), I still suspect she’s only seen jail because she was a young woman.

    • midas22@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      The Tesla stock is the biggest bubble we have ever seen. Short it on the market with the right timing and you will become filthy rich. It will crash, there’s no way they can deliver to this valuation ever… the only question is exactly when. It’s difficult to predict since it doesn’t follow any logical rules in the short term.