Elon Musk channels Dr Evil

Electric-car company Tesla’s proposed $1trn pay package for its “gag-loving boss”, Elon Musk (pictured), “sounds like Dr Evil’s demand for $100bn in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me” – more money than is in the world in 1969, when the film is set, says Spencer Jakab in The Wall Street Journal. But, like Dr Evil, Musk is serious (though the chances that he will hit all the targets to unlock the full share award are “slim”). Cue the debate over lavish executive pay. But what gets lost is “whe...