Bezos’s 2021 press conference, after having just returned from his 11-minute trip to the outer atmosphere in a penis-shaped rocket made by his Blue Origin company, is telling in this regard. Dressed in a blue space uniform topped with a cowboy hat to emphasize his new status as a space pioneer, he stated to the assembled press: “I want to thank... See more

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Life is hard enough without a handful of filthy-rich assholes sticking their nose into matters that affect our much-less-rich lives. And yet, here they are, on our screens, in our news and in our governments, like a stain on the planet.