Jeff Bezos says the future is so bright, he "doesn't see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now." Speaking at Italian Tech Week 2025 earlier this month with Ferrari and Stellantis chair John Elkann, the Amazon and Blue Origin founder ...
Why the FUCK would I want to be living in space? Bitch, the food air water and gravity are HERE.
But in space amazon can own them!
Because tech billionaires can charge money for all of that in space!
NGL I want off this planet.
I like this planet, they can fuck off.
There’s nowhere else to go.
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
Jeff Bezos, This post
Yes, that’s obviously horseshit if by ‘soon’, you mean the next 25 to 50 years.
We do not have anywhere close to the technology or infrastructure or underlying economic/sociopolitical integrity to be able to attempt even getting 10,000 regularly people living in space within a decade from now.
Just because Bezos says something doesn’t mean it is true or reasonable or accurate.
Bezos is giving you a fanciful dream to embrace, while the world that he himself disproportionately shaped and transformed to his will… is actively crumbling and falling apart, for everyone with a net worth under ~10 to ~100 million dollars.
He says he is planning to build an at least mostly self sufficient solar panel manufacturing complex, on the moon, using moon dust as input material.
Amazon could not figure out how to make a working grocery store with a contactless payment paradigm.
They recently had a little bit of an oopsie after letting go of thousands of employees… that resulted in an internet brownout, that caused something like $200 billion of economic damage.
They are notorious for running their logistics services via horrific working conditions.
Remember when aerial drones were gonna deliver all our packages to us?
You… you trust this guy, these people, when they just … say they’re workshopping something, that it’s all gonna work out just fine?
Don’t get me wrong, Blue Origin is a lot less ludicrous of an operation than SpaceX, but … this is still a fanciful, near delusional level, aspirational goal from Bezos, not some kind of master plan of 5 5 year plans all meticulously worked out, accounting for every possible contingency, that is just guaranteed to work.
Brother (or sister), I was just making a joke comment on a post about people living in space. I do appreciate your concern tho.
I want off this planet onto a different earth-like planet in another star system, but even the most delusional billionaire doesn’t think that we’ll have access to other systems anytime soon.