Oh boy, did this Question of the Day end up feeling a little bit like prophecy! We had no idea that the falling stock price would become a national crisis when we wrote it, but it seems so obvious now.

Mr. Musk is fundamentally a creature of Silicon Valley, a scene that initiated an entire revolution in power dressing. The young masters of that universe dressed down to show that they were members of a new elite — one that refused to dress like the grown-ups they were about to topple. It was the defeat of the suit by the T-shirt.