If I'm Elon Musk, I don't care about Tesla, the Boring company etc. long term. I'm more interested in SpaceX and the Hypertube etc.
Exit strategy wise, I'd sell Tesla and a bunch of these companies to the US automakers at a premium in the coming few years and offer them a olive branch to deal with Chinese pressures, but also an forward solution that also deletes a major competitor to them. Tesla can continue to grow and Musk can pocket some serious coin by selling Tesla at a premium to have funds for his vanity projects (a la Zip2 and Paypal).
Tesla is pumped full of funny accounting and the government subsidy stuff will end sooner or later. He's going to laugh all the way to the bank and wash his hands of this stuff. US automakers will still be profitable even with some of this stuff built in, but just not as profitable as one might believe vs the actual selling price of Tesla.
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