Billionaires Are Joyriding to Space While the Earth Burns
It’s hard to champion Jeff Bezos’ and Richard Branson’s cosmic voyages when so many people are suffering
Optics aside, I can see some value in a billionaire riding into space on what looked like a blue dick.
On Tuesday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos successfully completed his foray into space after launching from a remote area of West Texas on his Blue Origin rocket along with three crewmates. “Best day ever!” Bezos said when the capsule touched down after the flight. The sub-orbital flight lasted 11 minutes and made Bezos the second billionaire to leave the Earth this month.
The first billionaire was Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, who took to space aboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity. Another billionaire in the space race is Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who plays hot potato in the world’s richest billionaire spot with Bezos. Musk plans to follow the leads of Bezos and Branson though there’s no firm date for his flight.
Together, the three have managed to command national news coverage for space travel and exploration. But understandably, not everyone is so happy about all of these rich folks riding their phallus symbols into space as the world burns during a plague. After all, there’s the matter of how most…
