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Watching this pre-launch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEhdlIor-do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEhdlIor-do) is just surreal. The self-handshaking and mus

Watching this pre-launch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEhdlIor-do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEhdlIor-do) is just surreal. The self-handshaking and music engulfed promotional garbage is just disgusting. "This is the first step in mankind's space exploration", stfu. You are running space tourism for the rich. If you gave a shit about human kind you would pay your workers a living wage and do something about the environment. Edit: spelling Edit2: This is literally an ad for going on this trip. They are showing the hospitality suites for the "astronauts". With so many people barely making ends meet and many also starving I find this incredibly distasteful.

jm547ster 5y ago
Nice malaprop, discussing
chmsky00 5y ago
If engineers gave a shit about humanity they’d leverage their “wait we build all this stuff” power and stop building until humanity is paid better Wfh = simply don’t open laptops But let’s go on about how Jeff Bezos alone is responsible in a country “by of and for the people “. When horrible corporate oligarch or slightly LESS horrible corporate oligarch are your options for President, why does everyone keep waiting for them to be nice? Force austerity on the rich. Like “trickle down economics” is a joke about pissing in people, “what the market will bear” is a euphemism for push our society the breaking point. We’re the market of ideas they have to buy from. Let’s force them to buy a new one from us. “But noooo my personal hard won struggle would be for nothing if everyone was equal!” is how this conversation usually goes though. Frankly take your rant and cram it up your ass. Like Bezos is listening to your comments here and your effort meant something
71a54xd 5y ago
I agree, however it's funny to watch bezos burn $1B every year on his laughably shabby "space company" in comparison to SpaceX. Slow clap Mr. Bezos - maybe in ten years you'll be able to dock with the ISS...
gruez 5y ago
What does this have to do with amazon? Is this just a generic "fuck bezos" comment?
- sumedh 5y ago
  Blue Origin exists because of Amazon.
system16 5y ago
I mean sure, but what's the relevance to this article or discussion? Any product targeting the wealthy - automobile, Rolex, or iPhone ads - could also be considered distasteful when people are starving.
ctvo 5y ago
> You are running space tourism for the rich. If you gave a shit about human kind you would pay your workers a living wage and do something about the environment. Are you this upset over 500k cars? Purses that cost 20k? Watches that cost 200k? Designer t-shirts that cost 2k? Luxury goods exist. Some people purchase homes that cost over 100 million dollars. Imagine that wealth going to the things you approve of instead. The world would be fixed but alas. You must have been apoplectic over the original Tesla Roadster considering the business model is shared with the same lofty goals—the wealthy fund the initial product, mass production eventually. There for EVs, here for human transportation and habitation in space.
- sschueller 5y ago
  The environmental impact of a rocket launch isn't even close to that of a luxury watch.
  - ctvo 5y ago
    And the rest of that list? And as an aggregate? If you're going to pick / choose to ignore the obvious point, why even reply?

jm547ster 5y ago

Nice malaprop, discussing

chmsky00 5y ago

If engineers gave a shit about humanity they’d leverage their “wait we build all this stuff” power and stop building until humanity is paid better Wfh = simply don’t open laptops But let’s go on about how Jeff Bezos alone is responsible in a country “by of and for the people “. When horrible corporate oligarch or slightly LESS horrible corporate oligarch are your options for President, why does everyone keep waiting for them to be nice? Force austerity on the rich. Like “trickle down economics” is a joke about pissing in people, “what the market will bear” is a euphemism for push our society the breaking point. We’re the market of ideas they have to buy from. Let’s force them to buy a new one from us. “But noooo my personal hard won struggle would be for nothing if everyone was equal!” is how this conversation usually goes though. Frankly take your rant and cram it up your ass. Like Bezos is listening to your comments here and your effort meant something

71a54xd 5y ago

I agree, however it's funny to watch bezos burn $1B every year on his laughably shabby "space company" in comparison to SpaceX. Slow clap Mr. Bezos - maybe in ten years you'll be able to dock with the ISS...

gruez 5y ago

What does this have to do with amazon? Is this just a generic "fuck bezos" comment?

sumedh 5y ago
Blue Origin exists because of Amazon.

system16 5y ago

I mean sure, but what's the relevance to this article or discussion? Any product targeting the wealthy - automobile, Rolex, or iPhone ads - could also be considered distasteful when people are starving.

ctvo 5y ago

> You are running space tourism for the rich. If you gave a shit about human kind you would pay your workers a living wage and do something about the environment. Are you this upset over 500k cars? Purses that cost 20k? Watches that cost 200k? Designer t-shirts that cost 2k? Luxury goods exist. Some people purchase homes that cost over 100 million dollars. Imagine that wealth going to the things you approve of instead. The world would be fixed but alas. You must have been apoplectic over the original Tesla Roadster considering the business model is shared with the same lofty goals—the wealthy fund the initial product, mass production eventually. There for EVs, here for human transportation and habitation in space.

sschueller 5y ago
The environmental impact of a rocket launch isn't even close to that of a luxury watch.
- ctvo 5y ago
  And the rest of that list? And as an aggregate? If you're going to pick / choose to ignore the obvious point, why even reply?