Mercedes spends $8bn/year on R&D

Post by rich_sasha » Sat, Nov 23, 2024, 9:03 PM UTC

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It's not just taxes, it's also important for your balance sheet. Which I imagine is important to a publicly listed company like Mercedes. If you pay someone $100.000 and they don't create anything, that's money you lost. But if you spend $100.000 on research or development (two subtly different things) there is the expectation that they created at least $100.000 of value that will be realized in future years. You did…

I don’t understand the tax implications. Employee salary is subtracted from gross earnings and not taxed. You have employment taxes but you have to pay those regardless. So how is an employee salary categorized as r&d a tax benefit?

Post by adamredwoods » Sat, Nov 23, 2024, 9:11 PM UTC

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Fair enough point, but do we wait until millions suffer and die in order to call it out? Causing widespread suffering is a means fully embraced, planned, and enacted by Musk and the team Musk is on. How much more warning do you need? And they justify it by saying 'we get things done'.

>Fair enough point, but do we wait until millions suffer and die in order to call it out? Reading mean comments on Elon's social media platform is not "suffering". You can just turn it off and stop using it. You also don't have to work for Elon's companies, you are free to work anywhere else. Stop comparing it to life under dictators. Talk to people who lived under Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao or Ceuasescu. Comparing Elon or…

Post by adamredwoods » Sat, Nov 23, 2024, 9:46 PM UTC

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Plutocracy unveiled.

look at where democracy got us - maybe time to try something else? :)

Post by ben_w » Sat, Nov 23, 2024, 11:51 PM UTC

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He does get shit done. Sometimes it's good shit, other times it's just shit. That cost-cutting approach worked with turning Tesla from the butt of (quite reasonable at the time) jokes about "Death Watch" because they kept needing more and more investment money, into the success they are today. It utterly failed with Twitter, which has lost most of its revenue and is constantly running into legal issues.

By your own statement, people said the same things about Tesla in the past which they do about Twitter today. That alone should be pretty strong evidence that it's too soon to tell if his approach with Twitter has failed. Maybe it will fail, maybe not, but either way I think it's too soon to call.

Post by ben_w » Sun, Nov 24, 2024, 12:13 AM UTC

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Yes advertisers want control, wouldn't you? But it has nothing to do with "free speech". Try "good speech". Elon reduced the amount of subjective "good speech" and increased "bad speech". Advertisers have the freedom to do what they want. Elon, on the other hand, has absolute control of the words on his platform.

>Yes advertisers want control, wouldn't you? If they would have control, people would stop going to Twitter and it would die. Similar fate to the TV mainstream media where they only parrot the opinions of their money overlords, and people are tired of that. That's why they go on to Twitter instead, to look for comments conforming to their own world views rather than what some trillion dollar corporations and out of t…

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