Commentary
Elon Musk, the wunderkind CEO and co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX, is playing in dangerous sandboxes. On June 20, he proposed a “cage match” with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who accepted the challenge, albeit with the date to be determined. Both tech titans are martial arts enthusiasts.
The fight venue is under discussion, with Las Vegas and the Coliseum in Rome being top runners. A pre-match war of words, complete with base insults, is now reaching the stage of a Musk threat to sue over Mr. Zuckerberg’s new Threads app that mimics some Twitter features.
But, Mr. Musk’s most dangerous game lies far to the east of Las Vegas, in Beijing. There, the challenge is so dire that Tesla Man is apparently being forced to publicly subscribe to socialist ideology to pursue his billion-dollar business venture….