r/dankmemes • u/EnkelALB • Jan 08 '21

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

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u/Splat800 Jan 08 '21

might get downvotes cos i'm dumb but why is it bad that he's num 1?

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u/MalPL <-- I carry a huge cock, in my ass Jan 08 '21

Musk has an extremely polar "fanbase" especially on reddit people either absolutely love him and don't care about any bad things he's done or they absolutely hate him and don't see the good things he's done.

But besides that, according to Forbes he's still behind Bezos.

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u/sleepywolff77 Jan 08 '21

Hmmm he gave a lot of those kids a good job on the lithium mining facility ngl

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u/MalPL <-- I carry a huge cock, in my ass Jan 08 '21

  1. It's not like how owns those mines, only thing he does is buys already made batteries from a different company or just buys the product from whoever sells the lithium from these mines.

  2. Probably until the end of this year we will see full production of Tesla's new batteries which won't use lithium.

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u/Tdiaz5 Jan 08 '21

I disagree with your first point. Those mines existing is a direct consequence of Tesla's demand for lithium. In fact, let's do a quick calculation:

There are 63 kgs of lithium carbonate in a tesla 70kWh battery, and global production of the stuff was 365.000 tonnes in 2019. Tesla produced 367.000-368.000 cars in that year, so a simple calculation gives that Tesla used ~6.3% of the global production (23.000 tonnes).

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u/MalPL <-- I carry a huge cock, in my ass Jan 08 '21

That's a good point. Probably if not Tesla a few of these mines would be closed, but it still doesn't mean that Musk has any say over how the workers there are treated. As I've said, he just buys the product.

It's comparible if I'd say that you support child labour when buying an iPhone, because it was recently in the news that Apple knowingly picked a few factories that relied on child labour.

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u/Tdiaz5 Jan 08 '21

Well, I'd say Musk does have at least limited influence. If he really cared, he could put his foot down, as the mines probably need him as much as vice versa.

I would say that if you buy an iPhone that you are supporting child labour. I own a Samsung and therefore I also probably do. I don't 100% agree with the comparison though, as Musk is the CEO of the company and not the customer. Both are responsible, but the CEO more directly.