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.