Hey welcome to the club.
Well I guess at least he and Bill and Elon are putting their money to good use
Still he could at least use it to increase welfare of his company.
Well that's an understatement.
Space will be a rich elitist luxury before it becomes colonized
Bill Gates is spending his fortune on curing polio is a greater good than some space boondoggle
Gotta have those space prime subscription offers ready for when Elon colonizes mars I guess
What happens when we have space polio?
Check and mate lmao
Well techically couldn't the same be said for Elon and Richard Branson?
Gotta have someone bankroll the tech.
Considering it seems to be just Gates, Musk, and Bezos, now I'm worried that we'll have our very own Elysium sooner rather than later.
at least capitalism is the thing saving out ass in space tbh
The government sure as fuck isn't funding it
Its okay to have people funding different good things.
i guess it depends on whether you're playing the very long game or not. investing into space is far more likely to result in the survival of our species on a scale of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years
Building private space companies is like when you hit endgame and you just keep spamming the highest-cost productions possible because you have nothing else to do lol
Could spend it on all his employees that are grossly underpaid. Just an idea.
Would hardly call this good use tbh rather try and make people's lives on earth better first y'know
feeding the poor and eating the rich
So what will the name of our future corporate space lords be?
Bezos-Musk ... No, not quite the right ring.
Tesla Prime? Sounds a bit too 50's sci-pop.
J&E (Jeff and Elon) Galactic? That sounds reasonable.
It really isn't the traditional market system funding the new space race, it's individuals putting their money towards their dreams. Traditional risk adverse publically traded companies don't really have the capability to risk their share prices on space ventures. Meanwhile elon is expressely reinvesting all the profits from spacex towards that goal, if it was a public company all that money would just be going into someone's pocket to sit there and accrue interest.
Why does this feel like a game of Civ but instead of countries its CEOs racing to a tech victory.
J&E Galactic sounds like a small-town trucking company.
Yeah and apparently Amazon's workers aren't one of them
story prompt idea: a space trucker traveling cross-universe to deliver some big unimportant payload and the stories and people he meets along the way.
I love how he's just getting slammed online for this.
"I don't know what to do with all this money, so space ships." How about paying your workers a living wage, you fuck?
Yeah and while I'm drowning in the rising ocean water and eternal summers we're headed towards I'll remember, "yeah, but at least I don't have polio." Getting mankind sustaining its existence off of Earth is the best chance we have for the survival of our species. Earth is basically fucked at the current rate we're doing shit and no one seems to be doing anywhere near enough to reverse that.
"But then how will I ever get into space to escape these dreadful poor people?!"
aren't amazon devs paid very generously?
He's not talking about them.
The average warehouse worker for Amazon uses food stamps to make ends meet.
Oh. I don't think bezos can take his earnings and give his employees a raise. It's not like he would just forego a salary or bonus so that they can raise the wage, the earning are from the valuation in the stock he owns in amazon. If that money went to paying the employees more it would be more akin to setting up a charitable fund rather than diverting profits away from management salaries. Bezos likely doesn't take a salary for his work at Amazon.
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