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by friend_and_foe 743 days ago
Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury in front of congress.

This type of behavior can be a liability, yes. It seems Musk is attracted to highly intelligent and capable women, and the work he does is in need of as many of them as it can get, so engaging with them is pretty likely to cause conflicts with company goals.

These are people's personal lives. We don't know what went on. What is acceptable? Whatever the participants find acceptable. It seems to me though from the article that none of the women being discussed here made a thing of it themselves, this seems like friends of theirs sending text messages to a newspaper. The only one of these stories actually involving the person in question is the flight attendant one, and while I can believe that it happened, I don't buy for a second that spacex cut her hours back over it. To me, this all looks like a nothing burger that some editor thought would be a juicy story, or that someone paid to have published. "Musk dates some women, they have relationship problems." "Billionaire propositions woman for a financially rewarding sexual arrangement." Big deal.

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You do realize that this is a standard that countless CEOs have been held to for a while now? McDonald’s CEO: https://www.npr.org/2021/12/16/1064943356/mcdonalds-ceo-sett...

CNN CEO: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2022/02/02/j...

NBCUniversal CEO: https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/media/jeff-shell-sexual-haras...

And so on… has Musk been confirmed to meet this level of misbehavior? For some of the above examples the answer is yes, for others no. But where there’s smoke there’s fire. It seems to me like you’re trying to move the Overton window on what is deemed acceptable CEO behavior.

Maybe I am, but I don't think it's reprehensible for someone to have intimate relations with willing people. Doing other things, like firing people for ending relationships, or harassing people because they're unwilling, are reprehensible, but I don't see any real evidence of that from this article, only a single claim that is unverified and sounds outlandish.