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Once a device has DRM on it, Section 1201 of the DMCA makes it a felony to bypass that DRM, even for legitimate purposes. For example, they can block you from getting your car independently repaired with third-party parts.īut they can also screw you in sneaky ways.

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Blocking you from changing your device's software lets a company run overt scams on you. Once a company owns the right to decide which software you can run, there's no limit to the ways it can extract rent from you.

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If Tesla were a capitalist enterprise, then entrepreneurs could enter the market and sell mods that let you unlock the functionality in your own car:īut because Tesla is a feudal enterprise, capitalists must first secure permission from the lord, Elon Musk, who decides which companies are allowed to compete with him, and how. Whereas capitalists seek profits (income from selling things), feudalists seek rents (income from owning the things other people use). This is the root of all autoenshittification: To maintain this rent-extraction racket, Tesla uses DRM that makes it a felony to alter your own car's software without Tesla's permission.

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You don't own your car at all: when you sell it as a used vehicle, Tesla strips out these features you paid for and makes the next driver pay again, reducing the value of your used car and transfering it to Tesla's shareholders:

#Freedom planet 2 cory drivers

That's just one of the many rent-a-features that Tesla drivers have to shell out for.

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You have to rent the right to use its full capacity, with Tesla reserving the right to reduce how far you go on a charge based on your willingness to pay: Take Tesla's batteries: you pay for the battery when you buy your car, but you don't own that battery. That valuation represents a bet on Tesla's ability to extract ever-higher rents from its customers. Once you start unpacking Tesla's balance sheets, you start to realize how much the company depends on government subsidies and tax-breaks, combined with selling carbon credits that make huge, planet-destroying SUVs possible, under the pretense that this is somehow good for the environment:īut even with all those financial shenanigans, Tesla's got an absurdly high valuation, soaring at times to 1600x its profitability: The important thing about Tesla isn't its cars, it's Tesla's business arrangement, the Tesla-Financial Complex: Tesla is a giant shell-game masquerading as a car company. He's hasn't delivered, but he keeps claiming he has, making Teslas some of the deadliest cars on the road: For years, he's been promising 'full self driving…next year.' There's an entire site devoted to cataloging Musk's public lies:īut while Musk lacks the charm of earlier Silicon Valley grifters, he's much better than they ever were at running a long con. Previous tech barons had 'reality distortion fields,' but Musk just blithely contradicts himself and pretends he isn't doing so, like a budget Steve Jobs. One of the poorest places in America installed universal fiber with a mule named 'Ole Bub': Pulling new cabling isn't a mysterious art, like embalming pharaohs. The comsat lie convinced a bunch of people that pulling fiber to all our homes is literally impossible – as though the electrical and phone lines that come to our homes now were installed by an ancient, lost civilization. The fundamental laws of physics don't care about this bullshit, but people do. He lies about really stupid stuff, like claiming that comsats that share the same spectrum will deliver steady broadband speeds as they add more users who each get a narrower slice of that spectrum: He lies about being the 'chief engineer' of those companies: He lies about being a 'utopian socialist.' He lies about being a 'free speech absolutist.' He lies about which companies he founded: Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current readingĮlon Musk lies a lot.Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.Tesla's Dieselgate: How DRM let Tesla defraud every one of its customers.