• @[email protected]
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    3511 days ago

    This makes sense - Tesla is overvaluated in comparison to other car manufacturers. Musk has created a really big image problem. The Cybertruck is a disaster that really makes you wonder if their priorities are right. Chinese car companies are starting to flood the market. The Semi truck is not going anywhere. It’s a really bad spot for a company that is valuated more than all of its biggest competitors to be in.

    • @kautau
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      3511 days ago

      Massively overvalued

      • @CheeseNoodle
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        1011 days ago

        We need a second copy of this chart but the size is instead based on actual cars produced (and maybe a third one that only counts EV production.)

      • @[email protected]
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        410 days ago

        Wouah thank for that, I never realised how fucked up it was before seeing it like that oO.

  • Johannes Jacobs
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    1211 days ago

    Well there’s a pension funds i’ll have to look into :) may even move!

    • @[email protected]
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      911 days ago

      Started looking for places to move to in 2017 because we lived in a red state and the writing was on the wall. Settled on the Netherlands and moved in 2019. Getting through covid was a bitch and I’d feel a lot better if the Dutch hadn’t also just elected a right wing nut job, but my mental and physical health are noticeably better. Once you get out you really realize how toxic American culture is. It’s like swimming downstream from a mine your whole life and then suddenly getting air lifted to some Icelandic spring.

      • Johannes Jacobs
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        311 days ago

        Yeah, we laugh about the orange baboon up there, but we have our own chimpansee down here :( we’re in no way better then the Americans in that regard.

        I dont read the papers anymore, i dont watch the news anymore.

        Humanity is sick and rotting, and i dont think we’ll ever rise above that. Humanity will ruin itself and the planet.

        But yeah… Other then that i’m very peachy and positive :)

    • @[email protected]
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      411 days ago

      I don’t think we really have the freedom to choose our own pension funds, do we? Possibly if you’re self-employed.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 days ago

        I work for a big company, and moved my pension. And I can invest it, in almost whatever I want. And because the yearly fee for the funds i choose is less than what my company payed before. I get payed the difference, which is nice.

        • @[email protected]
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          311 days ago

          Cool! So how do you do that? If I go to e.g. the ABP site, I see no way to sign up. (Both ABP and BPF Bouw are sector-specifc too, I suppose, maybe that’s the issue? But looking at a more generic pension provider, they mention either being part of HR, or self-employed…)

          • Johannes Jacobs
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            211 days ago

            Our company doesnt “meddle” in staff’s pensions. The idea is that i know better what fits me then my boss does.

            Next Monday i have talks about my pension, so i can tell you then ;-)

            • @[email protected]
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              210 days ago

              Ha, does that mean they simply don’t give you a pension? Or is it the case that you pick one and they handle it?

              But yeah, sounds like it’s specific to your company, unfortunately.

              • Johannes Jacobs
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                19 days ago

                No it means the money for my pension is added to my salary. Same goes for ehh… “Holiday money”. Normally the company saves a small part of your salary to pay out once a year. Usually end May i believe.

                So in my case, my monthly income is much higher, but it means i have to save it myself. Same goes for my pension. Instead of my employer paying the pension funds, i have to do it myself.

                • @[email protected]
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                  28 days ago

                  Ha I mean, that situation is indistinguishable from one where you don’t get a pension and your salary is the same, but sure :P

                  You do miss out on the tax benefits that employer-provided pensions give you, but in many cases that’s a fine trade-off.

                  Still, the actual point I wanted to make (but didn’t) stands: most of us can’t really switch our pension funds, which is a bit of a shame, because it means we can’t “vote with our wallet” for a pretty significant chunk of our wallet :( If my pension fund decides to invest in cluster bombs, I’m investing in cluster bombs…