Elon Musk's Dizzying Year: The Highs And Lows
Image Credit: AFP Time magazine announces Tesla billionaire Elon Musk as its 2021 Person of the Year.
“Clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman,” Time writes on Musk.
Image Credit: AFP Musk's SpaceX launched the first-ever mission to Earth's orbit this year with an all-tourist crew.
Image Credit: Reuters Time also praised Musk's work in alternative energy company SolarCity and Tesla.
Image Credit: AFP Musk recently replaced Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person.
Image Credit: AFP Time's tribute has been criticised by many who see Musk as a controversial figure.
Image Credit: AFP He was panned for his stand on the "billionaire tax" and Covid.
Image Credit: AFP US lawmaker Elizabeth Warren tweeted that the Person of the Year should actually pay taxes and "stop freeloading off everyone else”.
Image Credit: AFP Author Kurt Eichenwald described it as the “worst choice ever” in a year when "developers of the mRNA vaccines have saved millions”.
Image Credit: AFP Time said one of the reasons it chose Musk was for his sway over followers and investors on social media.
Image Credit: AFP Time explained that its annual acknowledgement was not an award but a recognition of a person's influence.
Image Credit: AFP The title has previously gone to Ebola healthcare workers, Greta Thunberg and even Hitler and Stalin.
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