In its day, Britain imprisoned Oscar Wilde and castrated the brilliant Alan Turing for homosexuality, driving him to his death. Now we look back on this in horror as an example of collective madness.

So how will we look back a couple of decades from now on the atmosphere of the 21st-century woke party committee, which, on the word of a spurned woman, fired the brilliant biologist David Sabatini and destroyed the visionary founder of a company over extramarital affairs?

I'm not sure if we should compare Jensen Huang and David Sabatini.

I have a feeling that if this was only related to affairs Jensen would not have quit his job. Musk has a reputation as a playboy and that does not seem to concern investors. The American people also happily voted an (alleged?) womanizer into the oval office.

Most likely Jensen/Nvidia has some skeletons in the closet and him leaving is mutually beneficial, to the company and to him as a person.

What I love about this whole thing is how many different ways there are to offend one’s sensibilities.

There’s the obvious one of cheating on one’s spouse.

If you don’t find that immoral or just don’t think it’s that bad, there’s the massive ethical issue of having a sexual relationship with a subordinate. And if you don’t care about the ethics of it, it’s still a problem of it influencing business decisions.

And if none of that gets you, there’s the whole spy angle. National security is a pretty good reason to frown on this. And even if you don’t care about that, there’s the corporate espionage angle: how much info made its way to their Chinese competitors?

If not a single one of those makes you think maybe there’s some merit to his ouster, and you compare the situation to Alan Effin Turing, you’ve lost the plot.

Interesting to see that the sanctity of the marriage bed and allegations of espionage are now a "woke party committee" invention according to billionaire worshippers.