If Buffett knew he was throwing down a gauntlet, I'd hope he would have dared Elon to do something about malaria rather than candy.
you act like tesla is giving away electric cars to underprivileged minorities and spacex is ferrying school kids to better school districts. it's always all fun and games and that anyone believes otherwise speaks to efficacy the marketing/ideology machine
If anything I'd say he's working too much. His behaviour has always seems to have been outgoing but now it's downright hostile.
He needs to take a few weeks off surely someone in his companies can run them without being micromanaged every minute of every day by Musk?
I find the idea that the media treats Elon Musk unfairly laughable. He is consitently portrayed either as a genius that can make anything happen or as a lunatic that can make anything happen. He couldn't have more favorable media coverage if he was writing the headlines himself.