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Leaked SpaceX documents show company forbids employees to sell stock if it deems they've misbehaved (techcrunch.com)
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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Tesla is certainly making a fair bit of money. Though it only got there because of a shitload of government help, both from the US and elsewhere, and indirect government help, like the government pretty much forcing other automakers to purchase EV credits from Tesla to make their fleet average CO2 numbers lower in order to avoid fines.

Which I'm not 100% against, but then again, Musk constantly complains about government subsidies on various things, while receiving a shitload of government help himself. Same level of hypocrisy as his whole "I'm a free speech absolutist" thing.

E: spelling