[hackerlight]

  "The ethics of sleeping with your employees aside (which reflects poorly on both parties)"

It should not. This new culture of no relationships at work is extremely off-putting. Work is one of the best places to meet potential spouses, even if there is a "power differential" between them. Some of the most healthy and happy relationships I've seen have been between people who got together under a so-called "power differential". The cases where it goes wrong (Weinstein) make the news but the majority of outcomes where there was genuine consent don't make the news.

I utterly despise the trend we are going towards where more and more organic relationships like this are judged to be morally wrong -- and such judgement is cast without knowing any details whatsoever -- and everyone is being herded into dating apps, being bred algorithmcally and are pitted against others of the same gender into a narcissistic and dystopian performance game.

If Elon and Shivon are both willing and consenting, then I say screw the uptight moral busy-bodies in this thread and elsewhere, trying to enforce their in vogue morality on two people who are harming nobody by doing what they've done, and good on them for doing what they both want in their own private lives and ignoring the judgemental onlookers. It's hard to work against unjust social scorn.

[birdyrooster]

The conflict of interest alone makes this untenable. After this, no one should want to work under Elon Musk knowing his ethical standard.