This weekly news magazine is just gaslighting us at this point.

They are the ones who gave the celebrity CEO the title at the end of the year, and now they are telling us everything that is wrong with him and how he bamboozled the world.

Maybe you should have looked into that before giving him the honor.

Time

Elon Musk


Elon Musk Is Convinced He’s the Future. We Need to Look Beyond Him

Elon Musk is a singular visionary driving humanity toward a better future—or at least that’s what he and his admirers want us to believe. For the past two decades, supporters and news outlets have praised him for the bold narratives he’s woven around Tesla and SpaceX, and by extension allowed him to evade scrutiny and become the world’s richest man. Any time Musk sends a tweet, you can check his replies to see the devotion of his millions of followers.

As his profile has been elevated by relentless media attention, Musk has become the figure everyone was looking for: a powerful man who sold the fantasy that faith in the combined power of technology and the market could change the world without needing a role for the government. (Just don’t talk about the billions in subsidies that kept his companies going over the years.)

But that collective admiration has only served to bolster an unaccountable and increasingly hostile billionaire. The holes in those future visions, and the dangers of applauding billionaire visionaries, have only become harder to ignore. – Source

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