Rulers have always found it difficult to accept limits on their power. When the French Parliament objected to the decrees of Louis The era of absolutism that followed in France did not end until the French Revolution of 1789.
Like Louis XIV, Elon Musk rejects legal limits on his power. In defiance of a recent Delaware Court of Chancery ruling that invalidated the $56 billion compensation agreement with Tesla (TSLA), Musk wants to reintegrate…
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