> Don't you think someone guiding the development of companies like SpaceX, Tesla, and others, would invest more time into those - rather than say first doing a thorough background check first on a private investigator he newly hired?
If you’re going to hire private investigators to dig up dirt on people who criticize you so that you can smear them to the public, you have a responsibility to be thorough, lest you defame them. It’s not as though Musk has to hire private investigators to smear his critics. If he’s too busy to meet the basic minimum responsibilities of human decency, he could just not hire private investigators to smear his critics.
If you’re going to hire private investigators to dig up dirt on people who criticize you so that you can smear them to the public, you have a responsibility to be thorough, lest you defame them. It’s not as though Musk has to hire private investigators to smear his critics. If he’s too busy to meet the basic minimum responsibilities of human decency, he could just not hire private investigators to smear his critics.