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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.
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.
There could not be consent, if you don't have a choice. Today, for employee there is not much choice among corporations. Everywhere he will find same totalitarism of "ruling class", without any signs of free market inside corporations.
Only small businesses today give their employees some sense of freedom and democracy in relations between employer and employees. In smal businesses, at least, you could just talk with boss about changing salary because of inflation or take a few days off, just because you want, deny to do some stupid shit and what is more important - to succesfully convince your boss that it is a total shit. All that stuff that represent kind of free market inside enterprise. But corporations colluded with state to destroy small business now. And further it goes, you have less and less possibility to find a job in a nice and friendly place instead of corporate socialist slavery.