Dave Lee is Wrong! Dave of Dave Lee on Investing is advocating (in a non dogmatic way) advertising for Tesla. Dave says Musk won't do it because Musk thinks its manipulative. But its much, much worse than that. The start of the problem with advertising is that ad companies try to sell what doesn't belong to them: other people's attention. They shift the risk and the lost opportunity cost and the lost time and energy of constant theft of attention, interruption and distraction in a mass aggregated way onto the public with horrendous cummulative knock on effects. Allow a sponsored media and you get a sponsored legislature and oligarchy or rule by tyrannical idiots empowered by existential tech which reduces people to property and amounts to human extinction. You can't base your society on fraud and lies. If you had a demand problem you can't create it by dishonest means, like spying on people and selling their privacy or selling their attention. With ads you also let natural born criminals get between you and your customers to milk the life out of that most critical relationship. Its for rent seekers who think they can put the business on auto pilot and outsource its running but still extract its blood. Its just as dumb as blind investment. Would you rent your spouse out? Why would you do that with your customers? Another billionaire did whole interview this morning saying intelligent things about greens just so he could try to say the natural gas ponz was necessary- it isn't! As an example Nadelea has an attack ad on behalf of Fosil Fuels and the insurance companies that socialize endless Fosil Fuel losses claiming that safety tech seat belts air bags and anti lock brakes and tracktion control and stability assist and cross traffic alerts but specifically and only Autopilot is illegal in the EU like other articles claiming Tesla automatic wipers are illegal in Germany. All this is like a new Porsche Taycan FUD article trying to cover its fire sale prices and obvious lack of demand (never seen one in CA or Porsche land) because of Model S by saying they are adding 200 people to the Taycan factory- no what they did was demote Diess because they are stupid. Just like Ford who replaced Hackett who said Tesla was the one to emmulate with a family guy who said Tesla has no advantage. You can correlate a companies collective intelligence and integrity with how much it spends on ads. Another example was a billionaire doing a whole green interview ad this morning just to assert the natural gas ponzi as neccessary when its not. Terra Power just delayed its defensive greenwashing- fuctional media would find the greenwashing. Your products are your mindshare drivers (not ads, you don't slather TOYOTA across your car because you don't pimp your customers.) If your products aren't your mindshare drivers they don't deserve people's consideration. If people need high quality product info provide it to them but voluntarily, as theft is not the right way to start or preserve anything.
