Mate, we live in a world where it is socially acceptable to refuse life-saving treatment and medication if it's deemed as not being worth it for their bottom line - it's essentially legal murder. We live in a world where billionaires get to decide whether our lives are worth it to them. A world where billionaires are systematically taking away your rights, your freedoms, your comfort, your money....but because it's done slow enough no one freaks out too much.
The guy that finally decided to fight back should be heralded as a fucking hero.
That's not the point. For TIME to do that, they're more or less stating that we're already living in that world, and have for the past year. Just wait.
featuring a person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year".
Become a rapist, fraudster, openly dickish and racist fuckwad and YOU TOO can get your name as the person of the year. Hell, you might even become president of the United States.