Elon is doing this with like 1/4 of the employees and as a private company, so his own admittedly enormous brain is showing potential competitors how this can be done at a smaller cost, without raising cash through the market. It would speak to how unprofitable the business is if nothing else emerges.
I think a realistic solution is something run by social liberals, with the political slant being openly advertised rather than awkwardly danced around, which charges $1/mo to use. Wouldn’t you all jump to that immediately if some obvious, well regarded social liberal like, say, Ashton Kutcher/Mila Kunis created it? It could be based on some gray area policy like “no idiots” or something, and I think it could work just fine.
I also wonder how much of Tesla’s recent devaluation is due to Elon’s toxicity via Twitter. There are so many other considerations that it’s hard to believe Elon being an asshole as the owner of a completely different company would affect Tesla’s stock, but it’s within reason to think many Tesla consumers are the kinds of people who would be put off by this reveal of who Elon is. I don’t think the far right normally are the ones buying Teslas.
