The absurdly wealthy dipshits like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Bernard Arnault, Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison & Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg and others do not need to be celebrated.
When Jeff BOZOS went into space for 11 stupid-ass minutes for several BILLION dollars in a giant rocket-powered penis awhile ago, it should have been the wake-up call for most people. I know he's not the only one who flaunts their obscene wealth but that was just too much. Plus, the media and others who fucking praised that jaunt into space whereby BOZOS' rocket-powered penis violated the lower depths of space, embarrassed themselves in glee over such a profound waste of money.
The stupid media even called this an "historic event." My ASS it was historic; it was fucking embarrassing. If aliens are watching us, they're probably shaking their heads in in bewilderment, seeing how we're treating our own home and how the ones with the means to make for necessary change are doing next to nothing about the problems we face. We're so far off from enlightenment and truly making a positive change and these stupidly-rich jackasses are going on space road trips in giant penises.
Little note: a would-be passenger aboard the giant space penis that Bozos funded paid a cancellation fee at the last minute of $28 million because they had a scheduling conflict that came up.
Twenty-eight million to cancel a flight at the last moment, on a space flight (that was only 11-minutes long, at that), and many people barely spend that kind of money in a couple of decades on their children..
The world is burning. Countries around the world, especially poor ones, are seeing the lives of their people fall apart to calamities. The pandemic continues to rage in countries that HAVE the means to do way better, but don't because the people that lead them and enable those leaders don't give a shit. Neo-liberalism and capitalism rule the day ever onward and these ideas are going to be the death-knell of humanity.
And these assholes could play a significant role in making things better and to think, and this would benefit them: they could still possess enormous wealth at the end of it all.
When that bloodsucker (Bozos) said, “I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all of this”, he wasn't kidding, because Amazon workers worked their proverbial asses off making this scumbag and other executives at Amazon (he stepped down as CEO, big whoop) richer while being neglected and pushed to the brink. But good thing is, they're having enough (https://www.theguardian.com/.../amazon-workers-are-rising...)
And he's just one of these disgusting billionaires, rubbing their insane wealth in the noses of everyone else who is struggling against an increasingly unfair system. This same system is going to lead to our downfall, and few people, if anybody, with power is doing a damn thing about it. People think Biden is fixing the country and making a difference? He's giving the go-ahead for several industry projects that will only prolong the problem, defying yet more of his campaign promises. Sadly, he was still the lesser of two evils in that joke of an election.
Remember this: (from Journey North's "Millions and Billions: How Big is That?" https://journeynorth.org/pop/MillionBillion.html
Imagine someone gave you a million dollars and told you to spend $1,000 every day and come back when you ran out of money. You would return, with no money left, in three years. If someone then gave you a billion dollars and you spent $1,000 each day, you would be spending for about 2,740 years before you went broke.
Now multiply that number by the approximate wealth of ONE of these insanely wealthy men.
It's not about jealousy as I couldn't care less about wealthy, but rather being content.
It's about what's right. These people tilt so much in their favor while the rest of us suffer. They are now going into space. Only about 1% hold the vast majority of all wealth, and they're now raping space to remind us all of this huge disparity. And the world needs them to do the right thing with so much of that money. As I mentioned, before I close: Bozos alone could spend $149 billion of his wealth and still have at least $1 billion, which is far, far, FAR in excess of what any single person could spend in thousands of years.
