>>10670047>>10670062You have a fundamental misunderstanding about what shorting is, and probably how stocks work. To begin with, the company always gets to keep the money from people buying shares, and they can get money by generating more and more shares and selling them at lower and lower prices. How people are buying and selling the stocks is not much of anything. Where companies can get into trouble is if they're relying on that income from new shareholders to keep going, it's the closest thing a business has to printing money but it's not a bottomless pit. Another thing to consider is that Musk seemed to be fine with taking the company private at "$420" which more or less would have closed this off as a way of getting more cash into the business.
Shorting is nothing more than a position you can take in a trade and has been done since at least antiquity. The short sellers have actually done quite a bit to bolster the TSLA stocks, about a third of the stocks are thought to be involved in shorting currently so it's actually propping up the price somewhat. It's really nothing more than "pay me now and I'll deliver the stocks later for a lower than current price", and as you can imagine shit talking a company isn't going to get you very far with such a deal.
And the problem with Tesla currently is that there's been a statement to the effect that they'll be totally bankrupt in at most 10 months, that's massive financial mismanagement if true. I shouldn't be surprised though, Musk did commit securities fraud so he's the kind of guy that would do this kind of crap. Neither of these things were true of Amazon. Amazon's expansion was also much more thought out and just plain better.
