Elon Musk isn’t trading on his public stage persona?
That aside, I guess I just don’t have much sympathy. If certain “rules” are gonna apply to billionaires and not normal people, that seems fine by me. It might seem “biased” or “unfair” to some people, but hey: Who ever said we were operating in a “fair” context to begin with? Sure this kind of bias could be turned against more vulnerable people, it already is, it’s about time it got turned against the people at the top.
“Norms” don’t define things as right. I’m pretty sure we can think of some dark examples.
[1]I think I read about something called “The Watergate Scandal” about illegal gathering of information...