I usually find space and flight among the most inspirational things there are. I love the idea of humanity exploring and learning together, I think it's great that Space X has made using reusable rockets an achievable thing, and that it gives us data we can use in so many ways, and helps advance science and exploration.
That said, the billionaire boys club dick waving contest has been so depressing, I've avoided watching the launches. Here are these jerks that underpay the people that built their companies, racing to get to the very tip of space (technically the outer atmosphere), meanwhile the earth is burning, melting, and flooding, racing to prove that....well, they just can. Jeff Bezos, one of my least favorite humans, literally said he started Blue Origin because he could think of nothing else to do with his money. 😑 No wonder his philanthropist ex left him. I have never seen a better case for taxing rich people than these antics.
How about helping to build the infrastructure of the country that your company has used every single day, Jeff? How about building hospitals? Fighting vaccine disinformation? Building a tool to detect deepfakes? How about paying for childcare for your workers? Making it so they don't pee in bottles at work because of how totalitarian your warehouses are? You could build roads, put ENTIRE cities on new forms of power, help clean plastic out of the oceans! Make desalination plants for the west coast! ORRRR.....make a giant dick that doesn't even really make it to space, spewing an atrocious amount of pollution for no net scientific gain, and look like the biggest dork I've ever seen while doing it. Literally the only good thing about this to me has been seeing Wally Funk finally make it to space. Did you know that to Jeff Bezos, spending $80,000 is the equivalent of you or I spending $1. THAT'S how much money he has. I think it's fine to have millionaires, I still think they should be taxed and we need to close the loopholes that make it so they don't pay taxes at equivalent rates like the rest of us, but I think it's immoral to have billionaires. It's the sign of broken systems and broken people. You really have to have greed to make billions of dollars, and keep it. And I know, Jeff Bezos has given away pittances to people. But he has kept a LOT. And spent billions more on this useless stunt.
The world NEEDS help. America NEEDS moral leaders and business leaders. And this just AIN'T IT. Do better, jackasses. Regular people are the ones whose shoulders you stood on (and, faces, in many cases); why don't you try doing things to help us, instead of making the most ironic and crappy representation of leaving us behind to die in our petty poor people filth that you can.