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Tesla has earned billions already through its regulatory carbon credit sales. This allows other automakers to meet emissions regulations and avoid billions in fines.
Tesla has been getting paid by other carmakers for selling its carbon credits for years whose names used to be a secret.
But a report from Bloomberg revealed two famous names. These are General Motors and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA). About how much exactly they’re buying, it’s between them and Tesla.
Tesla’s regulatory carbon credit sales account for over 20% of its profits this quarter.
https://carboncredits.com/tesla-regulatory-carbon-credit-sales-jumps-116/
What a racket.
A large business still needs to sell a product that customers want at a price they want to pay. A government doesn't have to do that. The fundamental difference, not to be overlooked.
Note that these big Corporations are not terrorizing us independently, but only with the help of government. Because government is a different beast than Corporations with a different nature.
But somehow there is no any free market at all for large corporations. On a free market price of good is a result of negotiated compromise between seller and buyer. Try to negotiate price of anything produced by a large corporation. Hardly you will even get to the person who able to decide the price. If you are not buying a very large batch of product you absolutely have no any chances. That is exactly the same as socialistic "prices set by government".
Corporations terrorize their employees inside and totally deprive them from any decisions and control over top managers, exactly like socialist government terrorize their citizens-employees inside. No any difference at all.
What make you think so? Any government today is really a corporation that make profit by taking away huge part of what people earned. Even changing one government to another looks same as changing one empoyer to another. With all possible nuances. How is it different from corporation?
Its different because a corporation has to sell a product that people want at a price they can afford to pay. Walmart still has to have good prices inside or the customers go away. Government puts us into trillions in debt. Amazon still has anything you can think of at your house in 2 days with no shipping fee. As shitty as they might be to work for, they at least still have to consider the customer. Does socialist government have to consider you and get you good services?
Seriously? Corporations want to sell a product that will bring maximum profit. What people really want doesn't matter at all. There is propaganda machine named "advertising" that push necessary narrative telling customers what they have to want.
And you still talking about things outside corporation. I'm talking more about how corporation looks inside. And inside corporation you coud find only extreme socialism all way long. There is absolutely nothing capitalistic inside corporation. Absolute totaliarism, hierarchy, no any democracy at all, total planning, kind of social free services for workers (from free lunch to free showers) as the mirage of compensation for lowest possible payments, when most of profit made by employees is taken out by corporation top and owners. Fuck, USSR even gave more back to citizens(employees) and expropriated less. That is the only difference between any corporation and USSR.
From 1.5 to 5 times more expensive than on aliexpress for same china crap. And again you completely missing the point, trying to shift conversation to the outside manifestations of corporations. While I'm talking about how corporations work inside. And inside they have total, extreme socialism.
And inside Amazon you will find absolute socialism with Bezos as General Secretary of Socialist Amason Party whose ideology and orders are obligatory for workers. Those who protest are punished and has no any perspective.
Socialist goverments don't give a shit about his citizens, but always try to look perfect externally using all means including external propaganda.
Literally in the same way, corporations don't give a shit about their employees, but try to look perfect externally using all means including external propaganda they name "advertising" that is much worse and have much more lies than similar external propaganda of any socialist government.
Corporations, their owners and top managers - are extreme socialists. Worse than any socialist state with its state political party and state bureaucrats ever. North Korea looks pretty nice in comparison with any more or less known corporation.
And don't try to shift that question again, to the outside image of corporations. I'm talking about inside structure and working of corporations, not their external propaganda and weak attempts to play free market outside.
I actually agree with and enjoy your comparison of socialist government to big corporations. I can see what you're saying. But altogether government is a different beast, a far more dangerous beast, because it operates completely outside the realm of consent, unlike a legitimate free market corporation.
You can quit a corporation and go get a different job. Could Russians "quit Russia" and just leave whenever they want? Can Chinese? North Koreans? East Berlinners? I recall reading that people were shot for trying to climb the Berlin Wall. Are people shot when they try to quit Amazon?