Relative to the richest, though, they feel poorer because the gap is increasing

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Jul 21, 2021
2:44:03pm

Carnac Truly Addicted User

Relative to the richest, though, they feel poorer because the gap is increasing

So even though fewer people are starving or dying of preventable diseases and more people than ever have TV and smartphones, they still complain that the world isn't fair because some rando out there has a bigger yacht. In a capitalist world, the tide lifts all ships.

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Carnac

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Just some perspective on the cost of Jeff Bezos' space adventure

Traveshamockery

7/21/21 2:00pm

This type of analysis of how the wealthy spend their money makes it sound like they just blew money into the ether...

Tokolosh

7/21/21 2:05pm

The whole notion of attacking billionaires over the last 3 to 5 years is just

BlackBart

7/21/21 2:10pm

All fair points.

Traveshamockery

7/21/21 2:10pm

This is the kind of thing we want billionaire's doing. Just handing out money is

Lance71

7/21/21 2:14pm

Yep, I'm hearing this essentially Marxist criticism from both the left and the supposed right these days

CSoul

7/21/21 2:17pm

How many jobs were created from this venture?

John Doe

7/21/21 2:07pm

Spent it on what? Someone was the recipient, and it could have even been a

Memmo

7/21/21 2:09pm

Rocket fuel isn't made of dollar bills?

groy

7/21/21 2:10pm

Can't we say that about anything?

Carnac

7/21/21 2:12pm

It's not just the future though. It's the present. He has created a lot of jobs.

Lance71

7/21/21 2:17pm

Is it worth Bezos's time to pick up a $100 bill off the ground if it takes

run26

7/21/21 2:20pm

I have a funny story about this

Carnac

7/21/21 2:24pm

Awesome story!

ChiCityCoug

7/21/21 2:27pm

He's got bigger issues if it takes him 10 seconds to pick up a $100 bill. That's a 2 second job, max. 😉

Tokolosh

7/21/21 2:26pm

The Apollo program cost $25.4 billion (about $152 billion in today's money).

SpiffCoug

7/21/21 2:21pm

That money obviously should have gone toward reparations.

Carnac

7/21/21 2:24pm

Easy to condemn others

taylorcoug

7/21/21 2:26pm

Could you point to where I "condemned" him? I feel like I was fair

Traveshamockery

7/21/21 2:31pm

I was not clear

taylorcoug

7/21/21 4:33pm

That $5.5 billion didn't just disappear. It paid for a ton of jobs

Doogal McCougar

7/21/21 2:33pm

So we should cancel the NASA program? Their budget is 23 billion this year.

JuicyJam

7/21/21 2:38pm

Misnomer - rich are getting richer, but the poor are also getting richer.

delbert

7/21/21 2:40pm

Relative to the richest, though, they feel poorer because the gap is increasing

Carnac

7/21/21 2:44pm

So because they 'feel' poorer, they yearn for the days where they actually were

delbert

7/21/21 3:02pm

RE: Just some perspective on the cost of Jeff Bezos' space adventure

SpiffCoug

7/21/21 7:23pm

Funny but not even close to being comparable.

Traveshamockery

7/21/21 11:03pm

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