Cathie Wood's "Tesla killer"

Making a "killing" in business v. the "formal threats" alleged against gun owners in court

What exactly is a "made man" in the Mafia anyways? Gender is irrelevant. The Italian uomo sounds almost as if one is saying "woman" in English. It's all about the money.

Made men are rich and the mafia are poor, "the mafia" in this sense being nothing more or less than "the masses" of ordinary average everyday people by Roman decimation or census.

The language of "killing" (and/or "conviction") is universal at a certain level. There is a sacrificial lamb or beef with an acknowledgment that man does not live without slaughter.

Cathie Wood doubles down on ‘Tesla killer’
Cathie Wood’s love affair with Tesla is no secret. The EV giant remains the top weight (over 13%) in the ARK Invest’s combined portfolio, valued north of $180 million. Wood
Wood has said on multiple occasions that if she had to own just one stock, it would be Tesla. Also, ARK assigns a base-case price target of a lofty $2,600 on Tesla by 2029, built around its conviction that Robotaxis and AI will drive the bulk of Tesla’s future value. … In back-to-back trades, ARK’s Autonomous Technology & Robotics ETF (ARKQ) added to its position in BYD (BYDDY), often referred to as the "Tesla killer." ¶In the latest disclosure dated Oct. 21, ARKQ scooped up 55,523 shares of BYD worth roughly $757,888. That followed a 69,000-share purchase the day before valued at $941,160, taking the total two-day investment to nearly $1.7 million.

The danger here with capital deepening is getting "in too deep" with sunk costs and too much expensive industrial equipment that risks becoming quickly outmoded or obsolescent because of advancing technology.

Capital Deepening and Nonbalanced Economic Growth on JSTOR
Daron Acemoglu, Veronica Guerrieri, Capital Deepening and Nonbalanced Economic Growth, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 116, No. 3 (June 2008), pp. 467-498
Understanding Sunk Costs Can Help Everyday Decision-Making
A sunk cost is a payment or investment that has already been made. It can’t be recovered and therefore shouldn’t be a factor in decisions.

Nevertheless there are a lot of exciting possibilities with artificial intelligence and robotics to "being made" or "having it made" literally in the manufacturing of consumer products or parts or professional tools.

Capital Widening and Capital Deepening - Economics Help
Definition capital widening means that the capital stock will increase at the same rate as the labour force and lead to constant labour productivity (output per worker). Capital widening involves greater investment to make use of existing technology and increase the amount of capital available. Capital deepening attempts to increase…

Intellectual property and mental health concerns (imaginary law as opposed to real law) cannot prevent capital widening either, in the form of competition from other businesses or other workers in the same business manufacturing the same or similar competing products. Human ingenuity always finds innumerable methods to work around sketchy patents, litigious demands and claims for royalties.

DuPont Analysis: Definition, Uses, Formulas, and Examples
The DuPont analysis is a framework for analyzing a company’s fundamental performance by breaking down the drivers of its return on equity (ROE).
The biggest drawback of the DuPont analysis is that it still relies on accounting equations and data that can be manipulated. Plus, even with its comprehensiveness, the DuPont analysis lacks context as to why the individual ratios are high or low, or even whether they should be considered high or low at all.

The basic equations are posted, but sorry, you've got to get your books straight over at Investopedia if you don't rely on accounting in business. It's time for a tax audit and the investors are shaking their fists if the annual report that comes in the mail "lacks context."

In manufacturing, the way to success is to stand by your character, skills and quality of workmanship over the whole process, roboticized or automated as it is, while using a careful DuPont analysis to identify and eliminate areas of waste, inefficiencies and any other obstacles to profitability.

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The bottom line is that we have AI and robotics, all this advanced manufacturing technology, but still no guns or ammunition except for current and retired police and active duty military in America? Who do the feds and ATF agents on The Commission think they're fooling anyways? Firearms have to be made.