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.

Elon Musk has done a number of bad things:

• Tesla slams Reveal News as “extremist” after exposé on alleged factory improprieties — A story from Arstechnica about how Tesla tried to cover up their high number of factory injuries.
• Musk broke the law with anti-union tweet, judge rules — Union busting practices at Tesla. Firing a union worker, who was later ordered to be reinstated by a judge.
• Elon Musk’s False Covid Predictions: A Timeline — A story in Forbes about the long string of crazy claims regarding COVID19 that Elon Musk has made.

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.