The Internet mob has only one rule: "Guilty until proven innocent". I suspect that the turmoil has been caused by the upcoming book http://www.amazon.com/Elon-

The Internet mob has only one rule: "Guilty until proven innocent". I suspect that the turmoil has been caused by the upcoming book http://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Fantastic-Future/dp/0062301233/ref=zg_bs_684245011_1 http://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Fantastic-Future/dp/0... and its dubious marketing strategy: http://uk.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-email-tesla-employee-2015-5?r=US http://uk.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-email-tesla-employee... As you can see from a recent thread, It's easy to fall into the clichè of drama and hubris https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9526362 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9526362 Some users even imply he may be a sociopath. We are not quite able to cope with the success of other people. We MUST find some kind of weakness, or tradeoff: this is why media love troubled geniuses. "Sure, Einstein was a great physicist, but did you know that [insert meaningless gossip]". It gives us the illusion of being morally superior, because of the false dichotomy between love/affection/community and money/mastery/fame.