Interessanter Artikel darüber, woher die Gewinne von Tesla (und damit das Milliarden-Vermögen von Elon Musk) stammen:
Tesla's dirty little secret: Its net profit doesn't come from selling cars
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/31/investing/tesla-profitability/index.html
Tesla posted its first full year of net income in 2020 -- but not because of sales to its customers.
Eleven states require automakers sell a certain percentage of zero-emissions vehicles by 2025. If they can't, the automakers have to buy regulatory credits from another automaker that meets those requirements -- such as Tesla, which exclusively sells electric cars.
It's a lucrative business for Tesla -- bringing in $3.3 billion over the course of the last five years, nearly half of that in 2020 alone. The $1.6 billion in regulatory credits it received last year far outweighed Tesla's net income of $721 million -- meaning Tesla would have otherwise posted a net loss in 2020.
Im Prinzip haben wir es hier mit modernem Ablasshandel zu tun. Es fehlt aber leider ein Luther, der dem Treiben ein Ende macht.