Tesla founder Elon Musk posts ancient Chinese poem, with Twitter users guessing at meanings from crypto to the UN | South China Morning Post

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and the world's richest man, tweeted a 1,800-year-old Chinese poem comparing the killing of a sibling to boiling beans from the same root, spurring conversations among netizens on Twitter trying to decipher what the tech billionaire is trying to say. Musk, who also founded SpaceX , appeared to address the post to "humankind" before copying the text to the poem known as The Quatrain of Seven Steps . The poem, known for being about a fratricidal struggle in an imperial court, seems to have little relevance to Musk, who is worth more than US$300 billion and…