We should send the Pedo and Bezos to Venus.
Trash capitalist getting praise for the work of his employees.
Sounds about right.
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.This is practically always how it works out.
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?
This is the man who aspires to save our planet and get us a new one to inhabit: clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman, cad; a madcap hybrid of Thomas Edison, P.T. Barnum, Andrew Carnegie and Watchmen's Doctor Manhattan, the brooding, blue-skinned man-god who invents electric cars and moves to Mars. His startup rocket company, SpaceX, has leapfrogged Boeing and others to own America's spacefaring future. His car company, Tesla, controls two-thirds of the multibillion-dollar electric-vehicle market it pioneered and is valued at a cool $1 trillion. That has made Musk, with a net worth of more than $250 billion, the richest private citizen in history, at least on paper. He's a player in robots and solar, cryptocurrency and climate, brain-computer implants to stave off the menace of artificial intelligence and underground tunnels to move people and freight at super speeds. He dominates Wall Street: "The way finance works now is that things are valuable not based on their cash flows but on their proximity to Elon Musk," Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine wrote in February, after Musk's "Gamestonk!!" tweet vaulted the meme-stock craze into the stratosphere.
Such cosmic ambition rarely comes without consequences, and Musk still must answer to earthly authorities. His companies have faced allegations of sexual harassment and poor working conditions; in October, a federal jury ordered Tesla to pay $137 million to a Black employee who accused the automaker of ignoring racial abuse. The businesses have also been fined for numerous regulatory violations. The feds are probing Tesla's Autopilot software, which has been involved in an alarming number of crashes with parked emergency vehicles, resulting in injuries and death. The company's expansion in China required cozying up to its repressive autocrats.
The toll his hard-driving style takes on staff is legendary. Former associates have described Musk as petty, cruel and petulant, particularly when frustrated or challenged. He recently separated from the experimental musician Grimes, the mother of his seventh son. "He is a savant when it comes to business, but his gift is not empathy with people," says his brother and business partner Kimbal Musk. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he's made statements downplaying the virus, broken local health regulations to keep his factories running and amplified skepticism about vaccine safety. Musk tells TIME he and his eligible children are vaccinated and that "the science is unequivocal," but that he opposes vaccine mandates: "You are taking a risk, but people do risky things all the time," he says of the unvaccinated. "I believe we've got to watch out for the erosion of freedom in America." The vast expanse of human misery can seem an afterthought to a man with his eyes on Mars.
True... but it begs the question how influential he actually was this year compared to other people.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.
Who?
She's an American pop star whose first hit song was in January and now she's really popular with multiple hits.
Then, his Person of the Year is justifed.
Musk called someone else a pedo for no reason, so turnabout is fair play. Fuck Musk. He's trash.
Musk called someone else a pedo for no reason, so turnabout is fair play. Fuck Musk. He's trash.