Time magazine names Elon Musk ‘Person Of The Year,’ the internet says nope
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On Monday, TIME magazine offered up a preview of its upcoming “Person of the Year” issue. Since the Meredith Corporation took control of the magazine, the cover has been graced by capital-J Journalists—including the assassinated Jamal KhaTime magazine names Elon Musk ‘Person Of The Year,’ the internet says nope
On Monday, TIME magazine offered up a preview of its upcoming “Person of the Year” issue. Since the Meredith Corporation took control of the magazine, the cover has been graced by capital-J Journalists—including the assassinated Jamal Khashoggi—environmental activist Greta Thunberg, and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris honored with this distinction. This year, Elon Musk, a man reportedly worth more than $300 billion dollars—almost all of which was gained during the pandemic—is the magazine’s “Person of the Year.” For at least the last six years, as Musk was briskly rising into the top-two richest people slots alongside Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, he has paid somewhere around 3.27% in true taxes. That’s about .00327 cents on every one of his billions of dollars. Since 2018, as his wealth has skyrocketed Musk has probably not paid anything in income tax. In October, Musk’s Tesla was ordered to pay out nearly $137 million to a Black employee who sued the company for cartoonishly racial discrimination. Musk’s proclivity to reveal how utterly pedestrian a mind he has by tweeting out his unremarkable and predictable thoughts from time to time has led to embarrassing public relations issues—like Tesla being found guilty of union-busting by the National Labor Relations Board. And while most people with sociopathic levels of wealth and power will at least donate some of their money—even organized crime bosses hand out turkeys at Thanksgiving, after all—Elon Musk is somehow estimated to have given less of his yearly wealth away than my mother, on a fixed income, gives to the New York Public Library. Read more