alt Hacker NewsWhat would the alternative have been? Not reporting that they were purchased at all?
The premise here seems to be that spacex purchased the trucks for the sole purpose of inflating the tesla reporting, which of course makes no sense from a business perspective
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The general behavior of doing things that don't particularly make sense from a business perspective, to make numbers look better, is unfortunately common. People exploit it by doing things like trying to get a discount near end of quarter.
“This makes no sense” => “I don’t understand the purpose”
The most obvious motive is juicing the numbers.
> The premise here seems to be that spacex purchased the trucks for the sole purpose of inflating the tesla reporting, which of course makes no sense from a business perspective
I think you missed the part where Tesla is overevaluated and any bad news could utterly crush it's share value.
It makes no sense? When the companies have the same CEO?
lol bro
Fucking of course it makes sense they are both owned by Elon.
Except when the CEO of publicly owned Tesla gets paid based on performance.
Elon keeps doing things that make no sense from a business perspective and he’s defended by people who exclaim it couldn’t have happened like that because it makes no sense from a business perspective.