Terrence Keeley
It was the most telling line of Davos 2026.
In the World Economic Forum’s closing interview, host Larry Fink asked Elon Musk whether his planned deployment of thousands of humanoid robots and autonomous driving vehicles might deprive millions of people of meaningful enterprise, value, and purpose.
Musk’s flat response: “Well, nothing’s perfect.”
There may be nothing else you need to know about Musk – or, perhaps, Davos. Indifference to human dignity demeans us all. It was badly off-key for reasons both mundane and profound. Obviously, many things are perfect, and anything that deprives humans of value and purpose is perfidious, perfection’s opposite. That he and consummate host Fink could continue their exchange pretending Musk said nothing wrong was so, so wrong.
Indiana’s football team just concluded a 16-0 season. You needn’t be a card-carrying member of Hoosier Nation to know – that’s perfect. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong singing “Summertime” and Michelangelo’s David in the Galleria dell’Accademia might have a small flaw in them somewhere, but none have been found yet. Mark Spitz winning seven gold medals in Munich in 1972 while setting seven world records, and Nadia Comaneci getting the first 10.0 in the uneven bars in Montreal in 1976 were nothing if not perfect.
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