Jeff Bezos went to space

[Megalodon]

"Bezos Landed, Thanked Amazon Workers And Shoppers For Paying, Gave Away $200 Million"


https://www.npr.org/2021/07/20/1018414444/bezos-landed-thanked-amazon-workers-and-shoppers-for-paying-gave-away-200-millio

^That headline has to be a slam, ironically from NPR. Amazon put 1000s of small businesses out of work, median income Amazon pays is only $29,000, has them slavishly packing boxes...and he gives away $200 million to basically BLM but he only, without spending a dime, verbally "thanks" his slaves and his customers, who made him rich.

All the $$$$ Bezos is 'giving away', and putting into his businesses to make himself more $$$, is $$$ that he isn't paying his employees slaves.

[jude2]

He is so worried about Global warming and climate change

[SOMEPARTS]

Do you honestly believe this?

About 75%, yeah. 

[FitnessFrenzy]

[TheAnimal]

We need this. Capitalism works. Ayn Rand would be like, YES exactly. We can advance society through selfish motive of feeling weightless or whatever else is expected from a short glimpse of weightless. FACT. Bezos seemed really keen to expand OUR horizons in terms of space travel horizons post event interview. OUR. We all will benefit. China doesn't have private citizens doing this sort of thing of ours.

[joswift]

We need this. Capitalism works. Ayn Rand would be like, YES exactly. We can advance society through selfish motive of feeling weightless or whatever else is expected from a short glimpse of weightless. FACT. Bezos seemed really keen to expand OUR horizons in terms of space travel horizons post event interview. OUR. We all will benefit. China doesn't have private citizens doing this sort of thing of ours.

If we didnt live in a throwaway society we would stagnate and die

[MAXX]

We need this. Capitalism works. Ayn Rand would be like, YES exactly. We can advance society through selfish motive of feeling weightless or whatever else is expected from a short glimpse of weightless. FACT. Bezos seemed really keen to expand OUR horizons in terms of space travel horizons post event interview. OUR. We all will benefit. China doesn't have private citizens doing this sort of thing of ours.

My understanding is that he just wants to one-up Elon Musk all the time.  Apparentlythey are not friendly and have a kind of rivalry going.

Personally I think Musk is much more likable than Bezos. Bezos is just a petty arsehole and opportunist that got a break with his online store/company

[GymnJuice]

We need this. Capitalism works. Ayn Rand would be like, YES exactly. We can advance society through selfish motive of feeling weightless or whatever else is expected from a short glimpse of weightless. FACT. Bezos seemed really keen to expand OUR horizons in terms of space travel horizons post event interview. OUR. We all will benefit. China doesn't have private citizens doing this sort of thing of ours.

John Galt is the mastermind behind all of this, not Bezos.   

[Grape Ape]

Bezos is just a petty arsehole and opportunist that got a break with his online store/company

He drove the business model that changed the way the entire country shops, even when it was bleeding money at the beginning.  When companies were focused on profit/profit/profit, it wasn't even in his top 15 priorities.

Maybe he's a douchebag, most guys who are uber-successful can be, but it's disingenuous to say they just got lucky, or aren't smart enough to do this, as was mentioned earlier.

[SOMEPARTS]

He drove the business model that changed the way the entire country shops, even when it was bleeding money at the beginning.  When companies were focused on profit/profit/profit, it wasn't even in his top 15 priorities.

Maybe he's a douchebag, most guys who are uber-successful can be, but it's disingenuous to say they just got lucky, or aren't smart enough to do this, as was mentioned earlier.

He stole the idea from a professor who owned a communist bookstore....the "everything store".

It is an activist business model with so many conflicts of interest being ignored it's not even funny.

What is going on now with information age/tech concentrating wealth among too few people is similar to what happened in the industrial revolution. If you know your history you know how that went.

[Grape Ape]

He stole the idea from a professor who owned a communist bookstore....the "everything store".

It is an activist business model with so many conflicts of interest being ignored it's not even funny.

What is going on now with information age/tech concentrating wealth among too few people is similar to what happened in the industrial revolution. If you know your history you know how that went.

I don't disagree with any of these points.

But it has less to do with luck or a perceived lack of intelligence.

Just have to give credit where it's due.

Musk/Bezos/Gates are all game changers, super smart, and super driven.

Out of all of them, Gates pisses me off the most promoting this processed meat alternative garbage, all while looking like shit.

At least Bezos and Musk got on the gas and worked out.

[Humble Narcissist]

He stole the idea from a professor who owned a communist bookstore....the "everything store".

It is an activist business model with so many conflicts of interest being ignored it's not even funny.

What is going on now with information age/tech concentrating wealth among too few people is similar to what happened in the industrial revolution. If you know your history you know how that went.

Yeah, the standard of living and life expectancy went up for everyone.

[SOMEPARTS]

Yeah, the standard of living and life expectancy went up for everyone.

Temporarily. We are trading our future for cheap slave labor garbage.

Amazon = millions of tiny NAFTA transactions every day.

I could write a MattC post on this but I will resist the urge.

[deadz]

Whoooooo caresssszzzzz

[loco]

What is going on now with information age/tech concentrating wealth among too few people is similar to what happened in the industrial revolution. If you know your history you know how that went.

Yes, it made developed nations what they are today as opposed to turd world shitte holes.

[SOMEPARTS]

Yes, it made developed nations what they are today as opposed to turd world shitte holes.

I was of course referring to the Great Depression. If history is to repeat itself, so be it.

The two eras are not completely alike. Industrial Revolution led to a higher standard of living by making basics of life easier. Most of this consumer tech stuff is really to the point where people are serving it and the technocrats rather than being served by it. The problem is the efficiencies of an automated society to this level leaves you asking why there are so many people...which is why Gates speaks about pandemics and eugenics for the last decade I would assume.

[Humble Narcissist]

I was of course referring to the Great Depression. If history is to repeat itself, so be it.

The two eras are not completely alike. Industrial Revolution led to a higher standard of living by making basics of life easier. Most of this consumer tech stuff is really to the point where people are serving it and the technocrats rather than being served by it. The problem is the efficiencies of an automated society to this level leaves you asking why there are so many people...which is why Gates speaks about pandemics and eugenics for the last decade I would assume.

You made the comparison.

[OneMoreRep]

A rocket that looks like a giant penis was sent to outer space with Bezos in it. Does that make him the equivalent of jizz?



"1"

[Kwon]

Do you honestly believe this?

It's the truth.


It's not a question of if x or y believes it.

[Taffin]

Her last words to her family were, "You feed the dogs and I'll feed the fish."

[B_B_C]

A rocket that looks like a giant penis was sent to outer space with Bezos in it. Does that make him the equivalent of jizz?


"1"

Jizz is more honest and useful

[ProudVirgin69]

We need this. Capitalism works. Ayn Rand would be like, YES exactly. We can advance society through selfish motive of feeling weightless or whatever else is expected from a short glimpse of weightless. FACT. Bezos seemed really keen to expand OUR horizons in terms of space travel horizons post event interview. OUR. We all will benefit. China doesn't have private citizens doing this sort of thing of ours.

lmao how does society benefit in the slightest?  Nothing groundbreaking, he didn't even make it into orbit  It's just some rich guy checking something off his bucket list.

[Walter Sobchak]

Fitness Frenzy posting about Jeff Bezos’ “rocket”.

[DanM]

We need this. Capitalism works. Ayn Rand would be like, YES exactly. We can advance society through selfish motive of feeling weightless or whatever else is expected from a short glimpse of weightless. FACT. Bezos seemed really keen to expand OUR horizons in terms of space travel horizons post event interview. OUR. We all will benefit. China doesn't have private citizens doing this sort of thing of ours.

Capitalism is great as far as driving innovation through competition, however as long as the incentive for this innovation comes by greed, power and wealth we are standing on a rotten foundation

As technology advances and we are able to alter our environment to ever greater degrees there's a good chance we will innovate right to our doom if continuing to serve those incentives 

[Flexacon]

Billionaires are pissed

Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson not yet astronauts, US says

In a move that pours cold water on the dreams of a few billionaire space explorers, the US has tightened its definition of the word "astronaut".

New Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules say astronaut hopefuls must be part of the flight crew and make contributions to space flight safety.

That means Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson may not yet be astronauts in the eyes of the US government.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57950149