This is attention-grabbing posturing, in the style of most Twitter posts. Amazon is most definitely cruel to its employees, but that cruelty is not applied for the sake of launching Bezos into space. It's applied to make Amazon (and Amazon's investors) money.<p>Going into fits of stylish hysteria because the evil billionaires are launching rockets again misses the more important point: they would be just as evil if they WEREN'T launching rockets. Space exploration isn't the issue. The issue is that workers (and small businesses) are getting ground into a pulp to grease the gears of an increasingly cruel and dysfunctional society. What the ill-gotten gains are spent on is irrelevant. The point is they were ill-gotten in the first place.<p>And this matters, because the vast majority of nasty people running these society-crushing companies AREN'T operating private space programs. Walmart doesn't own any rockets. Nor does McDonalds. But they're still disassembling the foundation of a free, equitable society everyone can participate in, brick by brick, with their perverse economics.
All this abuse and exploitation because people want to just buy, buy, buy 24/7, as cheap as possible and as fast as possible and because the religion of our time is ordering crap nobody needs. Bezos riding a rocket to space is just unequal distribution of the spoils, not the reason for the existence of Amazon.
Mr. Bezos has declared ad hominem attacks the enemy[1]. Are his employees suffering because he decided that their complaints were ad hominem attacks as well?<p>1. <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/jeff-bezos-donated-100-million-154000074.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.yahoo.com/jeff-bezos-donated-100-million-154000...</a>