Time has revealed its 2021 Person of the Year: Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
The magazine unveiled the pick during a live stream on Monday. The title goes to the person who “had the greatest influence on the year — for better or worse,” Time explains, and editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal described Musk as someone “with extraordinary influence on life on Earth, and potentially life off Earth, too.”
Musk, the wealthiest person in the world, serves as CEO of the rocket company SpaceX and the electric car company Tesla.
“In 2021, Musk emerged not just as the world’s richest person but also as perhaps the richest example of a massive shift in our society,” Felsenthal wrote.
“From Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to Facebook turned Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, the year brought home the extent to which, at a time of rising protest over ever deepening inequality, our lives and many of the basic structures
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