To everyone complaining space flight is "billionaires having a dick measuring contest": billionaires spending all their money on a space race is actually a great scam for us. Humanity gets to keep all the tech developments, and the billionaires' penises remain the same size.
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Replying to @cmuratori
..which does not change the fact that what we're seeing is, as a matter of fact, a measurement contest :)
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Replying to @DomWitczak
It is one of the best motivators for certain people and certain types of problems.
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Replying to @cmuratori
Whatever flies their boat. The events might have gotten a different reception, had they not made them so much of a show.
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Replying to @DomWitczak @cmuratori
And yeah, that rash Bezos' comment certainly did not help.
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Replying to @DomWitczak
To be fair, why should they care? It's only people like you and I who have to remain on social media, for things like promoting products or finding work. If I had their money, I wouldn't be sitting here listening to all this nonsense - I'd be trying to build a rocket, too.
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Replying to @cmuratori
You're absolutely right. I myself can only shrug *but*, at the same time, still can relate to the outrage of people who work in former Bezos' warehouses, risk being sacked for no good reason other than broken algos, and who have to do massive overtime just to make ends meet.
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I don't really disagree. BlueOrigin's funding from Bezos works out to like $700/year per employee. Which is definitely not nothing.
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