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Yes but this is an extreme example
by mitchdoogle 5y ago
Yes but this is an extreme example
- fastball 5y agoRight, but how do you compare? Where do you draw the line?
- jamil7 5y ago> Where do you draw the line? 500m dollar yacht seems like a good place to start, we can work our way back from there.
- fastball 5y agoWell I can't speak for everyone else, but your arbitrary conception of what is "too much" actually doesn't cut it for me.
- jamil7 5y agoI'm not arguing that my definition is the correct one, I'm arguing that we can and have drawn lines before and are capable of doing it again.
- vba616 5y agoNeither can I, but it's easier for me to accept a billionaire doing something that's at least really new and different. I'm not a fan of Elon Musk, but I feel much less negative about his ventures than about Bezos, simply because they are adding to the world of what is possible. Bezos' rockets seem like a "me too" thing. People often say expensive things are "status symbols". It appears that Musk really wants to make science fiction real, independently of what anyone else does, and I suspect Bezos of actually being obsessed with relative status. Who knows if that's fair, but that's how it looks.
- kiliantics 5y agoMaybe if he paid his warehouse workers a living wage, and didn't force them to keep working while a tornado destroys a facility killing them, or piss in bottles while delivering packages. Maybe then he would only have enough left over for a somewhat smaller yacht and it wouldn't be quite so outrageous.