r/dankmemes • u/EnkelALB • Jan 08 '21

I am probably an intellectual or something Oh No! Anyway.

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u/soissie Jan 08 '21

Honestly I am kinda happy with elon musk being the richest person both he and jeff Bezos are assholes to employees, but at least musk is busy with things like SolarCity, neuralink and spaceX.

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u/sharkiebarkie tunak gang Jan 08 '21

Yeah I personally think you have to differentiate the person and the company, Elon is an asshole there is no denying that but it's companies like spaceX, Tesla and others, Work to have a better world and that is good.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '21 edited Jun 21 '21

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u/MrBroControl Jan 08 '21

Tesla is indirectly forcing every other car company to come up with electric vehicles to be able to compete. This means less carbon footprint so in a way, Musk is saving the environment.

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u/temporaryjoemam Jan 08 '21 edited Jan 08 '21

EDIT: this is false information that I've been corrected on

the carbon footprint of making an electric car means you have to use it for very long to have a better impact a normal car

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u/HatefulBunny Jan 08 '21

This is just not true.

Study from University of Cambridge and Exeter, Nijmegen

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u/temporaryjoemam Jan 08 '21 edited Jan 08 '21

that's really good news! thank you so much for this.

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u/MrBroControl Jan 08 '21

But the fuel it uses is cleaner, cheaper, and produces less emissions.

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u/kingwhocares Jan 08 '21

No, it's not. It's consumer behaviour. People want environment friendly cars and renewable energy has come to a point where it is cheap and mass produced, reducing cost of fuel. Electric cars still don't hold a candle to conventional or hybrid cars.

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u/MrBroControl Jan 08 '21

They don’t hold a candle to them in what way exactly?

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u/kingwhocares Jan 08 '21

People's buying habits. People buy a lot more non-electric cars than electric cars.

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u/MrBroControl Jan 08 '21

Oh well of course that’s true right now. But I was talking about the future.

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u/kingwhocares Jan 08 '21

The future isn't going to look good for Tesla. Companies like Toyota, Volkswagen, Nissan Renault, have a better global reach than Tesla.

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u/MrBroControl Jan 08 '21

That wasn’t really my point

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u/Nartian Jan 08 '21

Tesla is also pushing solar technology for you rooftop. Not everyone has a house, but still civil technology many people invest in.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '21 edited Jun 21 '21

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u/beardMoseElkDerBabon Jan 08 '21

Amazon is the worst company I've ever wasted my money on.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '21 edited Jun 21 '21

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '21

Lmao you clearly don’t know how Amazon works or what it is

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u/beardMoseElkDerBabon Jan 09 '21

Unfortunately I do know that it acts like cancer that attaches itself to formerly good companies...

like Book Depository.

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u/Punzolollo Jan 08 '21

Well I think that will change once overpopulation rises up to our necks. Then leaving to colonize other planets will suddenly seem much more urgent than it does now.

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u/Mefistofeles1 Jan 08 '21

Popoulation is projected to stabilize.

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u/GoWayBaitin_ Jan 08 '21

This is a dumb take lmao.

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u/popkornking Jan 08 '21

Amazon makes your life more convenient at the cost of the environment (online shopping requires less efficient shipping than is used to deliver to brick/mortar stores) as well as at the cost of small local businesses (mom/pop stores pretty much only survive nowadays if they introduce some sort of craft/artisan marketing to their brand).

In fact I would argue that the excess of convenience that Amazon encourages is one of the biggest problems with the consumer culture we're cultivating in the west. It might seem good right now but I think in 30+ years this approach to commerce is going to have very serious economic consequences, not the least of which is monopolization which were already seeing resistance from in Europe.