'Might it not be more charming, then, to select a Person of the Year who is actually concerned with alleviating human misery—as opposed to someone chasing a dystopian vision of an exclusive future universe run by and for Elon Musk?'
Time magazine recently chose Elon Musk—the"richest private citizen in history" and the CEO of rocket firm SpaceX and electric vehicle company Tesla—as its"2021 Person of the Year". In the first paragraph of the lengthy profile of Musk accompanying the accolade, we learn that the man"tosses satellites into orbit and harnesses the sun", sends the stock market soaring and swooning with a"flick of his finger," and also"likes to live-tweet his poops.
For the next zillion or so paragraphs of the profile, Time magazine proceeds with its grotesque apologetics on behalf of 2021's Chosen Person—explaining that, while Musk is"easily cast as a hubristic supervillain, lumped in with the tech bros and the space playboys", he is ultimately"different.
Ajl went on to observe,"In true apartheid form, spaceship rides envisioned by the Tesla tycoon will emit more CO2 in a few minutes than poor people emit in their entire lives." Then in December, six women filed separate suits against Tesla for alleged sexual harassment in the workplace—with many of them contending that Musk's own frequent lewd behaviour on Twitter only encouraged sexual taunts and other abuse in a male-dominated work environment.
Never mind that this same government has also flung its capital at—what do you know?—Musk's own projects, including via a critical $465m federal loan to Tesla in 2009. In fact, Musk and his companies have benefitted over the years from billions of dollars in public subsidies and government contracts.
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