A lot of the commenters are tittering at the idea of Musk being controlled in this way, but I see something really, really toxic here.
Sure, it's cute to imagine him getting patted on the head like this. We love the idea of the hated "genius" being revealed as a controlled moron.
But as this kind of behavior continues, the controllers are eventually replaced by fellow travelers who accommodate the genius not so they can avoid damage to the company but because they believe the golden boy improves everything he touches. The insulation erodes and becomes replaced with something worse than Yes-men.
DOGE is an excellent example of this. A lot of people are cherring that Musk and Trump had a falling out and that Musk has left DOGE behind. But he left DOGE behind, churning away at the guts of the government, run by those people who believe their man can do no wrong. But since Musk is gone, the hysteria around DOGE has crumbled markedly, even though it's still there doing it's "job."
A few see it:
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