Jeff Bezos Is Selling $1B a Year in Amazon Stock to Finance Race to Space
I appreciate the tech very much, but the visions of &quot;Millions of people working in space&quot;? I have no desire to be a part of that but I do wonder what they&#x27;ll be working on?<p>And &quot;Living on Mars&quot;. No thanks, I&#x27;ll pass on that too. I can certainly see the thrill of the ride described though and who wouldn&#x27;t want to be weightless for 4-5 minutes? But the market for that carnival ride is about as big as the number of cars Ferrari sells each year so I don&#x27;t get that.<p>One can call this a &quot;steppingstone&quot; tech for now if they choose but it&#x27;s more likely to be a cliff unless there&#x27;s something of real value here. Even if we go out on a limb and say all this is really a way for the wealthy to escape the planet they&#x27;ll find there&#x27;s no place close enough to go so even that doesn&#x27;t make sense.<p>No, none of the above makes sense to me yet so there must be something more fueling this race than what&#x27;s being said.<p>And hey, isn&#x27;t there also a downside to poking holes in the upper atmosphere and&#x2F;or ozone depletion? How long do we let someone profit off the effects of that?<p>I honestly don&#x27;t know the answers to those questions but I do wonder about them.