Blue Origin first human flight

Re:Blue Origin first human flight by eevilspock on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @09:51AM (#27893694)

> it's their money to spend

Not everyone agrees.

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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by ethanbond on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @09:58AM (#27893787)

Sure. I myself am not entirely bought into this position, but it is in fact the position of "our society." Figure we have to start by not calling these people explorers before making our way to questioning whether such extreme accumulation of wealth is optimal in the first place.

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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by Chris2048 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @10:30AM (#27894206)

> questioning whether such extreme accumulation of wealth is optimal in the first place

But why is it anyone's choice? People are already taxed disproportionately, why can't Musk spend his money, or the money people invest in him?

The US is free to outlaw large accumulations of wealth, it would just lose a lot of people in the process (assuming emigration wasn't also outlawed).

People in the US are, equally, free to move to places with fairer tax laws.

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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by flareback on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @10:02AM (#27893836)

Can you expand on this? I've never looked into who is financing this project. I've always assumed it was just Bezos' own money he was using.

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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by BurningFrog on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @11:14AM (#27894753)

Bezos sells ~$1B of his Amazon stock per year to finance it.

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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by jpt1 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @09:57AM (#27893768)

Not everyone agrees the earth is round but we don't take their opinions seriously

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