Disgraced former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may not have to be in the wilderness for long. Fellow international conflict-of-interest haver and alleged affair enjoyer Elon Musk said on Twitter that it “would be an honor” to hire Huang, though he didn’t specify which of his companies might take him.

Now, is it actually likely that Huang ends up at SpaceX? Probably not. The guy is still worth about $150 billion, so it’s not like he’s living paycheck to paycheck and needs to get back to work. Plus, he’s probably due to put some time in at home, assuming the locks haven’t been changed on him yet.

But Musk’s expression of interest does reveal him as a representative of a not-insignificant part of the tech world who have decided that if you build a company profitable enough, it’s okay to have a little extramarital entanglement with a woman suspected of being an intelligence asset of an adversarial country and maybe kinda help thwart US export restrictions and facilitate the alleged smuggling of billions of dollars worth of hardware to blacklisted firms as a treat.

The sentiment is all over Tech Twitter, where it’s become a common refrain to say that Huang just “made a mistake,” or that an affair is a “moral failing but not a business one,” apparently ignoring that one of the affairs was with an executive at a firm that allegedly smuggled Nvidia chips (and, again, a spy!) and the other was a subordinate.

But even allowing for the position that his personal sins don’t affect his abilities as an executive (except the affairs were directly related to him being an executive, but whatever), it ignores the possibility that actual, maybe literal crimes took place.

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