Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline
#HackerNews #Tesla #Sales #Decline #Electric #Vehicles #Automotive #News #Market #Trends
Jan :rust: :ferris:
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For Those Who Were Told This Is the Best We Can Do:
We were promised a #future.
What we got was a subscription.
The world told us: #Work hard, play fair, and you will rise.
But the elevator was always broken.
Only the penthouse keys worked.
#Capitalism did not #fail.
It did exactly what it was designed to do.
It turned human time into fuel.
It turned life into a cost factor.
It turned dignity into a luxury brand.
The #system says everyone can win.
This is like a casino saying everyone can leave rich.
The building exists because most people lose.
Once the ruling class wore crowns.
Now they wear hoodies, smiles, and stock options.
Once #exploitation needed whips.
Now it needs apps.
You are told you are free.
But your #freedom ends where rent begins.
Where debt begins.
Where #healthcare begins.
Where #survival begins.
This is not freedom.
This is The Hunger Games, except the Capitol convinced the districts to blame each other for the rules.
The poor fight the poor.
The middle class defends a system that is slowly deleting it.
The rich watch it all like a live stream, asking only one question:
“How do we monetize this?”
You are praised for exhaustion.
#Burnout is called ambition.
Rest is called weakness.
A system that needs you tired cannot afford you awake.
They say: Be grateful you have a #job.
As if survival were a gift.
As if obedience were a virtue.
This is the #Matrix, but instead of machines farming bodies, corporations farm attention, energy, and years of your life — and call it “career growth.”
First, it poisons the water.
Then it sells bottled #hope.
First, it destroys #community.
Then it sells “networking.”
First, it creates loneliness.
Then it sells algorithms pretending to be love.
It tells you:
If you are unhappy, it is your fault.
If you are poor, you didn’t optimize hard enough.
If you fail, you didn’t brand yourself properly.
This is not a system of opportunity.
It is a system of blame #management.
No billionaire earned their wealth alone.
They inherited leverage.
They bought laws.
They rented governments.
Every fortune is built on invisible backs.
Every luxury stands on unpaid overtime somewhere else on the planet.
This is Titanic economics:
First class debates wine pairings.
Third class floods.
And the band plays louder so no one hears the structure cracking.
They don’t fear protests.
They fear understanding.
Because the moment people realize:
* #Poverty is structural
* #Exploitation is intentional
* Inequality is profitable
The spell breaks.
That is why they flood us with culture wars.
That is why they keep us scrolling.
That is why they turn politics into reality TV.
A divided working class is the most efficient resource extraction tool ever invented.
We do not need heroes.
We need awareness.
We do not need saviors.
We need solidarity.
The future will not be built by billionaires.
They only know how to extract, not how to care.
A system that cannot imagine human worth without #profit
has already confessed its moral bankruptcy.
Another world is not only possible.
This one is already impossible.
It survives only because we keep mistaking endurance for consent.
History does not move forward politely.
It moves when people stop believing lies that no longer serve them.
And when that happens —
no #algorithm can suppress it,
no #market can absorb it,
no #empire can rebrand it.
Because ideas whose time has come
do not ask for permission.
They arrive.
#criticism #society #politics #protest #justice #change #ethics #humanrights #humanity #moral #finance
For Those Who Were Told This Is the Best We Can Do:
We were promised a #future.
What we got was a subscription.
The world told us: #Work hard, play fair, and you will rise.
But the elevator was always broken.
Only the penthouse keys worked.
#Capitalism did not #fail.
It did exactly what it was designed to do.
It turned human time into fuel.
It turned life into a cost factor.
It turned dignity into a luxury brand.
The #system says everyone can win.
This is like a casino saying everyone can leave rich.
The building exists because most people lose.
Once the ruling class wore crowns.
Now they wear hoodies, smiles, and stock options.
Once #exploitation needed whips.
Now it needs apps.
You are told you are free.
But your #freedom ends where rent begins.
Where debt begins.
Where #healthcare begins.
Where #survival begins.
This is not freedom.
This is The Hunger Games, except the Capitol convinced the districts to blame each other for the rules.
The poor fight the poor.
The middle class defends a system that is slowly deleting it.
The rich watch it all like a live stream, asking only one question:
“How do we monetize this?”
You are praised for exhaustion.
#Burnout is called ambition.
Rest is called weakness.
A system that needs you tired cannot afford you awake.
They say: Be grateful you have a #job.
As if survival were a gift.
As if obedience were a virtue.
This is the #Matrix, but instead of machines farming bodies, corporations farm attention, energy, and years of your life — and call it “career growth.”
First, it poisons the water.
Then it sells bottled #hope.
First, it destroys #community.
Then it sells “networking.”
First, it creates loneliness.
Then it sells algorithms pretending to be love.
It tells you:
If you are unhappy, it is your fault.
If you are poor, you didn’t optimize hard enough.
If you fail, you didn’t brand yourself properly.
This is not a system of opportunity.
It is a system of blame #management.
No billionaire earned their wealth alone.
They inherited leverage.
They bought laws.
They rented governments.
Every fortune is built on invisible backs.
Every luxury stands on unpaid overtime somewhere else on the planet.
This is Titanic economics:
First class debates wine pairings.
Third class floods.
And the band plays louder so no one hears the structure cracking.
They don’t fear protests.
They fear understanding.
Because the moment people realize:
* #Poverty is structural
* #Exploitation is intentional
* Inequality is profitable
The spell breaks.
That is why they flood us with culture wars.
That is why they keep us scrolling.
That is why they turn politics into reality TV.
A divided working class is the most efficient resource extraction tool ever invented.
We do not need heroes.
We need awareness.
We do not need saviors.
We need solidarity.
The future will not be built by billionaires.
They only know how to extract, not how to care.
A system that cannot imagine human worth without #profit
has already confessed its moral bankruptcy.
Another world is not only possible.
This one is already impossible.
It survives only because we keep mistaking endurance for consent.
History does not move forward politely.
It moves when people stop believing lies that no longer serve them.
And when that happens —
no #algorithm can suppress it,
no #market can absorb it,
no #empire can rebrand it.
Because ideas whose time has come
do not ask for permission.
They arrive.
#criticism #society #politics #protest #justice #change #ethics #humanrights #humanity #moral #finance
bhaugen
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"In addition to facilitating crime, Bitcoin has increasingly become an engine of predation. Crypto — or, worse, shares in companies that buy crypto with borrowed money — is heavily sold to naïve investors who don’t realize what they’re getting into. They do well when Bitcoin’s price is rising, but many probably don’t understand how badly they can suffer when it falls."
~ Paul Krugman
#crypto #Bitcoin #Trump #crime #market #cryptocurrency
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-trade-is-unraveling
Sabrina Web :privacypride: 📎
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"The Trump family’s net worth has fallen by roughly $1 billion since September, driven by major crypto-related losses including an $800 million drop in Trump’s stake in Truth Social’s parent company after Bitcoin-linked investments fell, a sharp contraction in the World Liberty Financial token’s value (from a peak of $6B to about $3.15B)," (continued in /4)
~ Aaron Parnas
#crypto #Bitcoin #Trump #crime #market #cryptocurrency
/3
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-white-house-in-turmoil-as-trump
(continued from /3)
"a $300+ million loss tied to Eric Trump’s Bitcoin-mining partnership as shares plunged, and a $117 million decline in Trump’s memecoin, all occurring amid a broader $1T crypto market crash and heightened scrutiny of the administration’s ties to crypto players."
"And crypto has fallen a lot recently. Bitcoin has actually held up better than smaller, more obscure coins, but even so it’s down roughly 25 percent since late October. ...
At this point Bitcoin is largely a Trump trade. Bitcoin’s price surged after Donald Trump won last year, and its recent plunge coincides with a series of Trump political setbacks."
"The Trump family’s net worth has fallen by roughly $1 billion since September, driven by major crypto-related losses including an $800 million drop in Trump’s stake in Truth Social’s parent company after Bitcoin-linked investments fell, a sharp contraction in the World Liberty Financial token’s value (from a peak of $6B to about $3.15B)," (continued in /4)
~ Aaron Parnas
#crypto #Bitcoin #Trump #crime #market #cryptocurrency
/3
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-white-house-in-turmoil-as-trump
"In addition to facilitating crime, Bitcoin has increasingly become an engine of predation. Crypto — or, worse, shares in companies that buy crypto with borrowed money — is heavily sold to naïve investors who don’t realize what they’re getting into. They do well when Bitcoin’s price is rising, but many probably don’t understand how badly they can suffer when it falls."
~ Paul Krugman
#crypto #Bitcoin #Trump #crime #market #cryptocurrency
/1
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-trade-is-unraveling
"And crypto has fallen a lot recently. Bitcoin has actually held up better than smaller, more obscure coins, but even so it’s down roughly 25 percent since late October. ...
At this point Bitcoin is largely a Trump trade. Bitcoin’s price surged after Donald Trump won last year, and its recent plunge coincides with a series of Trump political setbacks."
"In addition to facilitating crime, Bitcoin has increasingly become an engine of predation. Crypto — or, worse, shares in companies that buy crypto with borrowed money — is heavily sold to naïve investors who don’t realize what they’re getting into. They do well when Bitcoin’s price is rising, but many probably don’t understand how badly they can suffer when it falls."
~ Paul Krugman
#crypto #Bitcoin #Trump #crime #market #cryptocurrency
/1
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-trade-is-unraveling
Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Global Memory Tightening
#HackerNews #Samsung #DRAM #Price #Hike #Global #Memory #Market #MemoryTightening #TechNews
Titus Stahl
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This Thursday: Online symposium and discussion @utrechtuniversity's @visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl about our colleague @LisaHerzog's new book "The Democratic Marketplace: How a More Equal Economy Can Save Our Political Ideals" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Commentaries by Julie Rose (Dartmouth) and Tom Parr (Warwick). Opportunities for Q&A interspersed throughout.
Register: https://visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl/events/speaker-series-with-dr-lisa-herzog/
#market #democracy #capitalism #equality #PoliticalPhilosophy #philosophy #economy
This Thursday: Online symposium and discussion @utrechtuniversity's @visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl about our colleague @LisaHerzog's new book "The Democratic Marketplace: How a More Equal Economy Can Save Our Political Ideals" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Commentaries by Julie Rose (Dartmouth) and Tom Parr (Warwick). Opportunities for Q&A interspersed throughout.
Register: https://visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl/events/speaker-series-with-dr-lisa-herzog/
#market #democracy #capitalism #equality #PoliticalPhilosophy #philosophy #economy
Friday I was touring the markets of #Gaza when I witnessed a strange surprise.
#Palestine #FreePalestine #Boycott #BDS #Genocide #StopGenocide #StopIsrael #Food #Foodie #Market
Chewie
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The U.S. Just Spent Millions to Overthrow Bolivia to Extract Lithium and Install Neoliberal President
Bolivia’s 2025 election wasn’t decided by voters — it was decided decades ago in boardrooms, embassy back channels, and IMF conference rooms…
#Bolivia #USA #CoupPlaybook #State #Weapon #Extractivists #PoliteFictions #RodrigoPaz #Market #Neoliberal #CorporateControl #Lithium #EnergyWars #Resources #WesternLooting #EliteAlliance
