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Time’s choice of Elon Musk as Person of the Year was as popular as you’d expect

Another year, another missed opportunity for Time to make Betty White their Person of the Year. In fact, 2021’s POTY is Elon Musk – tech billionaire, space junkie and panner of rescue divers, not to mention prolific tweeter.

The opening paragraph of the announcement article in Time has to be seen to be believed – and you may still not believe it.

‘The richest man in the world does not own a house and has recently been selling off his fortune. He tosses satellites into orbit and harnesses the sun; he drives a car he created that uses no gas and barely needs a driver. With a flick of his finger, the stock market soars or swoons. An army of devotees hangs on his every utterance. He dreams of Mars as he bestrides Earth, square-jawed and indomitable. Lately, Elon Musk also likes to live-tweet his poops.’

Musk was appreciative.

Other tweeters had a very different response.

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Musk is arguably not the most controversial of Time’s Person of the Year decisions. There were also these –

Adolf Hitler: 1938

Joseph Stalin: 1939 and 1942

Ayatollah Khomeini: 1979

They may just put tax avoidance and space pollution into a whole other context.

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