A Letter to Elon Musk Haters

Are you angry that a “spoiled selfish billionaire who does nothing good for the world” was selected Time Magazine’s Person of the Year? Then this story is for you.

Erik Engheim
8 min readDec 21, 2021

Elon Musk has done a number of bad things:

I can go on. The point is that Elon Musk is not a saint. However, the ironic thing is that Elon Musk is seldom criticized for his actual flaws. Instead, if you look online at the comments that get leveled against Elon Musk, they tend to be about things that are either flat out wrong, taken out of context, or grossly misunderstood. Elon Musk just got named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year and that brought the haters out of the woodwork.

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Erik Engheim
Erik Engheim

Written by Erik Engheim

Geek dad, living in Oslo, Norway with passion for UX, Julia programming, science, teaching, reading and writing.

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