Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has been awarded Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2021, a year in which his electric vehicle firm became the most valuable carmaker in the world and his rocket company ascended to the edge of space with an all-civilian crew.
Time described Musk as a “clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, and showman,” citing his endeavors, from his founding of SpaceX in 2002 to his involvement in the creation of the energy company SolarCity, in addition to Tesla, the world’s most valuable automaker.
“For creating solutions to an existential crisis, for embodying the possibilities and the perils of the age of tech titans, for driving society’s most daring and disruptive transformations, Elon Musk is TIME’s 2021 Person of the Year,” the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Edward Felsenthal, said.
马斯克（Musk）拥有近6600万个Twitter追随者，从举办《星期六夜现场》到发布加密货币和模因股票的所有内容。不幸的是，他的一些推文过去也让他陷入困境。
然而，这一荣誉在美国受到了鲜明的批评，由于穆斯克的税收立场，马斯克在反对“亿万富翁税”中引起了争议。根据ProPublica今年的一项研究，马斯克仅支付较小的税率，即2014年至2018年之间其总财富的大幅增长，而马斯克的“实际”税率为3.27％。
伊丽莎白·沃伦（Elizabeth Warren）参议员表示，时间选择强调了对税法进行修改的需求，“年度最佳人士将缴税并停止自由载荷。”
此外，那些认为其他数字可能会更好地应得的杰出性的人在Twitter上质疑Time的选择。
自1927年以来，时间已经挑选了一个年度人物。根据该杂志的说法，该选择反映了一个人，但常常反映了许多人，他们在整个日历年中对国家和全世界产生了重大影响。该名称并不总是一种荣誉。取而代之的是，它承认据该杂志称，“对新闻的影响，无论好坏。”
Last year, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and US President-elect Joe Biden were named “Person of the Year” together.该标题曾授予Facebook首席执行官马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）和亚马逊（Amazon）的创始人杰夫·贝佐斯（Jeff Bezos）。
