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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: RaplhCramden 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: 13F : More Chevron
Date: 02/26/24 1:26 PM
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Further to this point, the justification for this amazingly lucrative deal was to keep Musk’s focus on Tesla. But nothing required him to reduce his activities with SpaceX, Neuralink, etc. Or even to hang on to these ‘focus-enhancing’ shares. On the contrary, he went and sold a bunch of Tesla shares to buy another distraction with Twitter! And now he wants more Tesla shares to keep him from focusing too much attention on SpaceX, Neuralink and now Twitter/X too.

Why should the Tesla board give one tiny turd what Musk is doing or not doing with SpaceX, Neuralink, etc?

What if the Tesla board's focus was actually on motivating Musk to do stuff for Tesla that would enhance the production, revenues, earnings, and stock price of Tesla irregardless of any and all irrelevant factors all around both the rest of the word and even all around the rest of the Muskosphere?

What if the Tesla board and shareholders were ecstatic with building a car company that has the best selling car model in the WORLD and has no resentment that the irrelevancies of SpaceX launching more rockets than anybody in the world, or Neuralink modifying more pigs to be able to become political commentators than anybody else in the world?

Famously, I do not agree with the idea that the board of Tesla has ANY INTEREST AT ALL in what Musk is doing for ANYBODY or ANYTHING other than Tesla. Does that make me an anti-communist? A mature adult? Whatever it makes me, its true.

Oh poor me! I owned TSLA shares starting in 2018 and Musk did all this stuff for SpaceX, Neuralink, and Twitter!

And all I got was this lousy T-shirt!

And the best selling car in the world! And a 10-bagger on my stock!

Yes, the Delaware Chancery court is the best in the world. Was I should say. Too bad they decided to blow themselves up by playing to the resentful.

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