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I didn't mean to imply that my reasoning has more gravitas than someone else's, it's that my priorities may be different because of my situation. Different priorities are fine! Hopefully there's a car for everyone.
“If you don’t like it leave.”
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“Quitter! Voting with your wallet is so pointless.”
Here is (in my opinion) the civil way to make your point:
Yeah, it's probably true that the value to the individual is greater than the value that Musk gets (this is the entire concept of consumer surplus), but in some cases, an individual might feel it justified to take a hit for moral reasons, such as in a Boycott.
You are replying to the thing I actually said and inviting further discourse rather than asking a rhetorical question that you believe (likely incorrectly) that you already know the answer to.
I am genuinely curious to your definition of boycott and how that is different to what you and the original commentor are talking about. Note that this is not to say that I do or do not approve of a boycott in this case, rather I find it intriguing that you seem to argue that boycotts in general make no sense.
Also note that my comment is a question, and though I understand it can be read sarcastically, was actually not meant as such and so the entire reply you made is mostly an adversarial situation playing out in your head.
This is playing games. Whether you intended it or not.
I called for boycott. You dismissed it. GP called you on it and now you’re playing dumb.
This worked in public discourse a long time ago but nobody buys it anymore. It’s a bad deflection.
HN is better at it than Reddit but there’s still way too many people who pretend like their reply has nothing to do with the chain of conversation they attached it to. Some of that is how we display follow-ups, but I can’t fix that.
It’s 2024, and somehow only Tesla or maybe Rivian has accessible video recording built in, even though all cars are covered with cameras.
I went into car buying thinking I wouldn’t entertain a Tesla due to lack of Carplay, and came out never wanting to step into a dealership again. So many stupid games they want to play, I just want to pick my color and pay for the car on my couch on my phone and pick it up.
The things I do miss are the ability to run 3rd-party apps, and a decent voice interface: Tesla’s voice interface sucks very bad compared to Siri.
Or if you're outside the US, anytime you touch anything economic that has ever been priced in US Dollars (since the US runs a huge budget deficit which it finances through printing dollars, aka debt monetization, which is partially paid for by foreigners who interact with the USD directly or indirectly).