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Jeff Bezos could vaccinate the entire world against Covid without changing his lifestyle even slightly. He could hire the smartest people in the world to work

Jeff Bezos could vaccinate the entire world against Covid without changing his lifestyle even slightly. He could hire the smartest people in the world to work on breakthrough propulsion, SETI, blue sky physics, and computing research. The money would barely be a rounding error in his wealth. He could fund the greatest space observatories in history, fund game changing contributions to cancer research, genomics, and other experimental medicine, and set up international STEM education programs. Instead he builds a toy rocket that looks like a penis and goes on a 2 minute joyride to the edge of space. And something something space hotels, maybe. It's debatable if it's evil. But it's certainly lacking ambition and boring.

GiorgioG 5y ago
> It's debatable if it's evil. But it's certainly lacking ambition and boring. He's the richest man on earth - who started one of the biggest and most successful companies on the planet, I'd say he had plenty of ambition. Excuse him for having a little fun. "He could do this, that and the other thing." Well thank you for telling him what he should/could do with his money. You know what, why don't you go start a company with a 1.8T market cap, and you can do all these noble things. All you need is some ambition to do something less boring, right?
- zaaakk 5y ago
  You have no moral compass. Your only guidance for what is right is money. If he has the money to do it then it is justified. There is something missing in your brain and that is why you will eagerly simp for a billionaire.
  - cbm-vic-20 5y ago
    > simp This has rapidly become my least favorite neologism.
  - GiorgioG 5y ago
    If he has the money to do something that won't hurt anyone, then it is justified IMO. I'm not rich, and I can't fathom what it's like to be a billionaire, but I can tell you what I don't like: people sticking their nose in my private business and deciding what is morally correct for me.
verdverm 5y ago
Did you ever notice the Amazon "smile" is also a penis?
dragonwriter 5y ago
> But it's certainly lacking ambition. Its not; the ambition is commercial ambition (which given Bezos shouldn't be surprising), but its certainly present.
zip1234 5y ago
The US government spends Bezos' net worth every 2 weeks and doesn't have their own functioning human space launch system at the moment.
DennisP 5y ago
In fairness to Blue Origin, they're attempting a pretty large orbital rocket too. They've just been a lot slower about it than SpaceX. As for Bezos, he also started the $10 billion Earth Fund to support climate change solutions. He could do a lot more, but he can't do it all at once; most of his wealth is in Amazon stock, and if he sold it all at once then it wouldn't be worth $200B anymore.
mavhc 5y ago
He funds an actual rocket, that looks like a rocket. Not like that was his entire plan though, it's step 1. I assume his future rockets can launch space telescopes, although they have spent 7 years not getting their engines to work.

GiorgioG 5y ago

> It's debatable if it's evil. But it's certainly lacking ambition and boring. He's the richest man on earth - who started one of the biggest and most successful companies on the planet, I'd say he had plenty of ambition. Excuse him for having a little fun. "He could do this, that and the other thing." Well thank you for telling him what he should/could do with his money. You know what, why don't you go start a company with a 1.8T market cap, and you can do all these noble things. All you need is some ambition to do something less boring, right?

zaaakk 5y ago
You have no moral compass. Your only guidance for what is right is money. If he has the money to do it then it is justified. There is something missing in your brain and that is why you will eagerly simp for a billionaire.
- cbm-vic-20 5y ago
  > simp This has rapidly become my least favorite neologism.
- GiorgioG 5y ago
  If he has the money to do something that won't hurt anyone, then it is justified IMO. I'm not rich, and I can't fathom what it's like to be a billionaire, but I can tell you what I don't like: people sticking their nose in my private business and deciding what is morally correct for me.

verdverm 5y ago

Did you ever notice the Amazon "smile" is also a penis?

dragonwriter 5y ago

> But it's certainly lacking ambition. Its not; the ambition is commercial ambition (which given Bezos shouldn't be surprising), but its certainly present.

zip1234 5y ago

The US government spends Bezos' net worth every 2 weeks and doesn't have their own functioning human space launch system at the moment.

DennisP 5y ago

In fairness to Blue Origin, they're attempting a pretty large orbital rocket too. They've just been a lot slower about it than SpaceX. As for Bezos, he also started the $10 billion Earth Fund to support climate change solutions. He could do a lot more, but he can't do it all at once; most of his wealth is in Amazon stock, and if he sold it all at once then it wouldn't be worth $200B anymore.

mavhc 5y ago

He funds an actual rocket, that looks like a rocket. Not like that was his entire plan though, it's step 1. I assume his future rockets can launch space telescopes, although they have spent 7 years not getting their engines to work.