Billionaires like Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk are parasites, worse than socially useless. But they’ve got to justify their existence somehow, so, like five-year-olds, they’re now pretending to be astronauts.https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/07/billionaire-space-race-richard-branson-bezos-musk …
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I don’t understand what you’re saying. Nobody “has to”, but certainly people can feel like they have to.
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my theory of mind might be rusty but if I had to guess why a person might build a rocket it would probably be either (i) to compete with rivals who are also rocket builders or (ii) because it's cool as hell
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In what sense is Bezos “hoarding” his wealth? Almost all his wealth is in Amazon, and it’s being continuously used to provide goods and services to millions and millions of people for consensual prices.
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