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This story is 7 months old, the team was rehired back in may. Why is this story popping up again as if it's new?
The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff:
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/inside-story-elon-musks-mass-firings-tesla-supercharger-staff-2024-05-15/
Its to reinforce this egghead is not special. He just proclaimed no one has more manufacturing knowledge than he does. Sure, thats why you fire whole teams just to rehire them.
I 100% agree on that, Musk is not special, and Tesla isn't either anymore. The only thing special about Musk is an exaggerated ego, loads of privileges, and being lucky to grab the right opportunity twice.
First with PayPal, and then with Tesla. Everything else is running at losses. With PayPal he was actually thrown out for being incompetent!
As they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day. And being born filthy rich as a son to an owner of an emerald mine. The great thing is you don't have to worry much about failing. Your life is secure even if you fail multiple times. Everything is just a game to those people.
I think SpaceX is profitable too.
OK maybe it is, I tried to find out, they had pretty massive deficits 2021 and 2022, but are estimated to have turned a profit in 2023.
But since then there have been a lot of delays and failures with Starship.
So I'm not sure they will be profitable for 2024, But being a privately held company, we can't know for sure. So I admit I can't claim they are running deficits.