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How billionaires are using celebrities as PR for their space projects

• themodelplumber 5y ago
  > In an interview with CNN in July he was asked his reply to critics who said such flights were joyrides for the wealthy, and billionaires should better spend their time, energy and money solving problems on Earth. > “I say they’re largely right. We have to do both,” he said, adding that Blue Origin’s mission was about “building a road to space for the next generations to do amazing things there, and those amazing things will solve problems here on Earth”. That Bezos agrees is largely missing from every critique I've seen so far. Such a perception must be pretty frustrating for people on the inside who apparently may see "flaunting and billionaires" as just as disappointing a situation as the critics do.
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