Bezos is donating $200M to the Smithsonian, so it’s not like he’s only spending his fortune on himself. I don’t understand all the hate for these rocket flights. We don’t know who it will inspire or what technological advancements may come. What should he do, ride around the Mediterranean on a super yacht doing very unsavory things like some other super rich folks who have been in the news lately?
Please. In the time it will take me to type out this post, Bezos will have recouped the bulk of that $200M. Plus, his donation will display his name so it's just another ego massage.
To me, there are 3 big issues:
1. No person, no matter how benevolent, should control that much wealth and resources. Bezos isn't benevolent and has made the bulk of his fortune by underpaying and abusing his workers. If he wants to do the right thing, he can start by paying Amazon employees properly and, btw, not shortchanging and bullying vendors, be more careful about selling fake/knock off products and also maybe start looking at Amazon's environmental impact since he's obviously too insecure to look at his own.
2. I am also certain that, as in the past, there will be a great deal of technical advances that come from billionaire's vanity projects. And I am even more certain that Bezos will do his best to capitalize and monetize every single one of those advances and keep the money for himself because...his ego is just that big and so is the hole in him where a soul and a conscious should be.
3. No private person should be able to command any amount of airspace or claim it as their own. It's far, far, far too dangerous and it's morally wrong.
And...I just thought of another reason so it's really 4 reasons:
4. Numbnuts Jeff Bezos apparently thinks the best place to send our garbage is into space. I'm sure he has a plan for that right now.
What Bezos and his kindred really want is to be king of the world, He doesn't want to have to mess with stupid elections a la Trump: that would risk failure and exposure of all his dirty secrets. He simply wants to buy the world and run things as he thinks they should be run. If Amazon is any sort of preview of his vision for the world, then that would be hugely disastrous, beyond my vocabulary to express.