Booo hooooo
If your employer said they'd pay you half a million if you worked for them, and then you did and they didn't pay you, I doubt you'd be dismissing it so frivolously
2. If it’s not hard work, then why didn’t Tesla go out and do it themselves instead of mooching off someone else to do it?
it is literally a situation in which a business pays someone for doing a job (e.g. referring customers)
Is it fraud if you worked for a startup that promised you options, and then refused to honor/issue those said options? After all, because those options never existed, you also "paid $0 for non-existent [options]"?
> Is it fraud if he paid $0 for non-existent roadsters?
How do you think readership gets monetised in the first place? The biggest way is ads, which includes referrals.
Do you dismiss paid ad placement the same way you dismiss referrals? If not, what makes it different?
> Referral credits are legal fictions
A promise for $100 of stuff isn't exactly the same as a promise for $100, but it's close. Debt is a "legal fiction" but that doesn't mean it's not legitimate, or that you can pretend it doesn't exist.
The contract
It was only once he realized that he has been duped and those will never materialize that the coverage turned negative.
Fred selling his stock also meant he was less inclined to be only pro-Tesla.
ChatGPT sums it up pretty well I think:
https://chatgpt.com/share/69552165-238c-8008-980b-4d0ff2e1b4...
I won’t purchase or use anything Elon Musk does. Bad behavior and corroding society needs to be met with social disapproval.