Tesla Corruption Paper

There are a few very large problems I see in our world that I would like to help solve. I believe most of these issues are too much for one person alone to solve alone but can be collectively solved with others. I see industries in our country that are becoming monopolies and are taking advantage of customers and consumers because the choices in these industries are limited and new choices are being stifled. The telecommunications and automotive industries are just two out of many industries I believe to be corrupt. They act deceptively to gain unfair gains against their competition.

In the telecommunications sector you basically have 4 main choices for cell phone service. There’s Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint. You can argue that there are many more carriers, however mostly all of them run

The existing companies will do everything they can to prevent you from getting started. The Tesla automobile brand is perhaps the most well known company to have suffered from corruption and unfairness in the automotive industry. Back in 2014, Tesla was restricted in several states from selling their cars directly to customers. The only thing holding them back was an automotive conglomerate made up of GM, Ford, Chrysler, and others. This conglomerate is called the National Automobile Dealers Association(NADA). NADA paid off politicians and lawmakers to prevent the sale of Tesla cars due to fear of competition. These companies were afraid they would need to put in effort to make their cars better rather than changing a few minor details about their yearly models. After a lot of back and forth, the FTC stepped in and supported Tesla but was unable to directly do anything about it due to regulations in each state. After pressure from their citizens, states had started letting Tesla sell their cars directly to consumers in 2014. The number of states has been steadily rising ever