Oh no he had to hide his chain of Beverly Hills McMansions after getting criticized.
It’s dehumanizing, creepy, and just exhaustively cringe when children get named after Le Epic Basic Algebra Concepts by the living gestalt amalgamation of “I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE” Reddit techbros.
This is partially consigned to the dunk tank because the biography writer is absolutely terrible too, being sycophantic and incompetent while trying to villainize the wrong person.
I’ve heard excerpts of this bio that sound so incredibly biased and also opposed to non-money-making people’s accounts of Musk’s character / genius. It’s like a fucking love letter to the richest man ever, it’s so weird.
The motivation could be as crude and pathetic as the motivation to wedge in a reference on Star Trek Discovery: the director wanted a free Tesla for the shout-out.