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Earlier today I was thinking about a conversation that I had a few weeks ago about Tesla. I mentioned that I would love to have one but I'd never consider buying one while Elon is still with the company. Their response was the normal "eh, I don't really think about that kind of stuff" and that was that. It was just a polite conversation so we didn't go into values or beliefs about it, but I'm certain that they were being truthful and didn't really have any deeper thoughts on it. Most people just simply don't care.
As for me, I believe voting with your wallet is the strongest thing that any one of us can do, at least while lobbying is still normalized within politics. The billionaires and mega-corps only care about money and they'll only change if something is affecting their bottom line.
pragmatically speaking, there is little reason they should care.
and there is always a calculus of benefit vs cost. does the 'good' of driving an EV outweight the 'evil' of indirectly supporitng Elon musk's wealth?
you also have to factor in for a long time tesla was really the only legit EV game in town, and most of the late comers aren't getting tons of traction.