Just Deserts: Musk is TIME’s Man of ‘21

Tesla, SpaceX founder and world’s richest man is ‘larger than life’

Elon Musk’s man of the year, according to TIME, an AT&T-owned source which is not known for thoughtful reporting, breaking news or advancing progress, capitalism and the free press, let alone for objective journalism (read the article). As founder of SpaceX and Tesla, the world’s wealthiest man merits attention, acknowledgement and recognition. Noting that “[t]he last successful startup in the American automotive industry, Chrysler, was founded in 1925”, TIME correctly reports that:

A few short years ago, Musk was roundly mocked as a crazy con artist on the verge of going broke. Now this shy South African with Asperger’s syndrome, who escaped a brutal childhood and overcame personal tragedy, bends governments and industry to the force of his ambition.

Autonomia saw Musk’s promise sooner than TIME. In this open letter to Elon Musk, after Musk denounced statism and fled California for Texas on principle, I pitched him on funding an organ of the truly free press. That this old American med…