Elon Musk is Time's person of the year
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Makes sense. SpaceX be taking off pretty well. And Elon basically propelled electric vehicles to the forefront of the industry plus widespread charging networks. Bezos gonna be mad.
I for one am glad they immortalised that atrocious haircut, people in years to come can pull this cover up and laugh at it.
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Influenced the cryptomarket with his tweets and made mad gains with that.
This is practically always how it works out. Time loves to celebrate the rich and famous.
But what has Musk done in his life to advance humankind other than get stoned and advnce ideas that can't realistically be accomplished?
Are Time really throwing weight behund the tunnel roads guy?
He kind of made electric vehicles popular and is forcing other car manufacturers to develop or lose out as Tesla sales are very good. And one can argue his pet SpaceX project has lit some kind of fire under agencies and capitalists for space to be worthwhile.
A reminder that Person of the Year doesn't mean the "best person", it's most influential, for better or worse. Hitler and Stalin made POTY back in their day.
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True... but it begs the question how influential he actually was this year compared to other people.
If you wait long enough he'll take his friends and leave the rest of us. Unfortunately by then the world will be a burning husk
Maybe some of the medical scientists who saved millions of lives this year should get recognized? Just a thought.
It's very hard to ignore the outsized influence Musk carries.
His rumors move markets.
His products generate instant buzz.
His tweets mobilize an insane amount of capital.
He's got governments large and small kissing the ring.
To the public, he is the "genius billionaire playboy philanthropist," regardless of how shaky each of those titles are under even the most minute of scrutiny. Capitalism personified.
His rumors move markets.
His products generate instant buzz.
His tweets mobilize an insane amount of capital.
He's got governments large and small kissing the ring.
To the public, he is the "genius billionaire playboy philanthropist," regardless of how shaky each of those titles are under even the most minute of scrutiny. Capitalism personified.
Who?
But seriously, bad people win this "award" sometimes.
Hitler was once too.
Musk is undeniably influential. This isn't positive per se but this asshole loves attention like a recent president who was impeached twice.
Musk is undeniably influential. This isn't positive per se but this asshole loves attention like a recent president who was impeached twice.
She's an American pop star whose first hit song was in January and now she's really popular with multiple hits.
However, my comment was facetious.
Disney plant that the machine is now pushing as Taylor Swift 2.0.
Musk called someone else a pedo for no reason, so turnabout is fair play. Fuck Musk. He's trash.
This is legit the worst choice for TIME Person of the Year that I can remember. Just actually legitimately a bad choice and not even because I don't like the guy, but because it just doesn't line up with reality.
Got ya was not sure if Musk being a pedophile was tied with that or if known pedophile Elon was in Eptines pedo book.
Y'all are crazy to say SpaceX and to a lesser extent Tesla have done nothing this year
If this was to showcase a good human being, then yeah he shouldn't be there
If this was to showcase a good human being, then yeah he shouldn't be there
With America and the world on the precipice of ecological and social collapse due to moneyed interests that are more interested in their own self-aggrandizement and growth than actually solving problems, Elon Musk is absolutely the most exemplary person of the year.
That or someone related to the COVID vaccine, but I think we all kind of gave up on the whole COVID thing.
That or someone related to the COVID vaccine, but I think we all kind of gave up on the whole COVID thing.
