What? Why would you say that? Much more plausible is the view that if you have high dollar lawyers on both sides crafting an airtight contract, and a jurisdiction that is heavily incentivized to stick to the letter of the law, then you can count on proper enforcement ... in contract cases. I would not apply this lesson to literally any other area of the legal system.

In many countries the judge would be bought off or threatened. There would be people "falling off windows".

And if that could be done in the US, the rich would absolutely do it. US legal structures, despite its flaws, is one of the better ones in the world.

The idea that the rich don't influence the courts in America is absurd. The reason why Musk couldn't just "do what he wanted" is because the other side of the table was also the wealthy elites. When it comes to elites vs elites, things start to get played by the book.

If Musk were allowed to make a mockery of the Delaware court, it would have shaken the bedrock for the trillions of dollars that corporate America rests under.

The rich can often basically just buy their way out so there's no need for anyone to fall out of any window.

Well, in some other countries he'd just buy the judge with a couple of mil and be done with it.

The Delaware Court of Chancery is not exactly a small court. Almost every high-budget matter of corporate law goes through this court, and they regularly deal with cases involving billions of dollars. Given how important corporate law and corporations are, it may be the most powerful trial court in the country.

The entity on the other side of the case also wasn't exactly a poor slob.

That would result in a gang war

even the world's richest person has no power over even basic common sense.