With sort of thinking we would all be peasants scratching out a living in the dirt always on the verge of starvation.

The trend of technology is the rich get something first and over time access trickles down to everyone.

I always hear this comment and yet no one can provide one example where a technology or innovation was similar in the past. From air travel, electric cars and medicine, the rich get it first before prices drop for mass marketability.

It is fairly easy, as a thought experiment, to project such a trend of accelerating accrual of benefits of technology to the plutocracy to a future point where your statement is no longer true.

I'm ok with that. Cars and computers were also only available to rich people at first. The alternative is not having them at all.

Actually there's literally infinite alternatives. Simple logic.

It already is a multi billion dollar business. And cyberpunkish dystopia stuff like "poor get old & decrepit while rich extends youth" already exists in several ways(health, food, in US "legal roiding"... Same shit as it's always been.

"But well, that's the world we live in."

- Sunday afternoon thought of George Washington, sipping on a glass of wine in a certain alternate universe one Sunday afternoon.

Tesla was, is and for some time will be only for the rich. More adoption, competition and improved processes of manufacturing will drive the price down for the masses.

You mean the electric car?

Because a lot of companies make electric cars. In China, for example, there are a couple hundred electric car companies.

The Chinese will buy electric cars by the tens of millions and everything will change. It doesn’t matter if Tesla is still expensive.

Isn't that kind of his point? Initial innovation is expensive, but it soon becomes affordable for all, and thus innovation is good for everyone

1.3 million electric vehicles were sold last year in China.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/08/fitch-says-chinese-electric-...

Tesla is a premium brand. There are other more affordable EV’s being sold in China.

We’re way past initial innovation.

The largest car market in the world is migrating to EV’s.