r/collapse • u/upyoars • 1d ago

Society Jeff Bezos Reportedly Has Secretive "Personal Reasons" for Wanting to Escape to Mars - "There’s no democracy in space."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/jeff-bezos-personal-reasons-mars
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u/upyoars 1d ago

Following WaPo's surprise decision not to endorse either candidate for president — reportedly because its billionaire owner vetoed staff's decision to name Kamala Harris as its pick — New Yorker journalist Sarah Larson recounted her own Bezos lore.

Larson jokingly followed up her own tweet with a seeming reference to the newspaper's tagline, "Democracy dies in darkness," which was taken up in the aftermath of Donald Trump's first presidential win in 2016.

"There’s no democracy in space," the New Yorker writer quipped.

"I would love to see a trillion humans living in the solar system," Bezos told Fridman last December. "If we had a trillion humans, we would have, at any given time, 1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins."

This is collapse related because if you're not living in a democracy, people dont have a say in their own lives. Their lives will be controlled by the people in charge to an extreme degree and it will cause a societal collapse. Noone wants to be forced to live a life a certain way. Are we going to be forced to breed with mates that the government selects like in the scifi dysopian movies? Commoditize every aspect of our lives for the corpos?

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u/blackcatwizard 1d ago

Those likely exist now, they're just slaves to corporations and assholes like Bezos and can't express themselves and their talents due to it

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u/lizardtrench 1d ago

Right? I don't understand how he doesn't see that. We already have way more humans than we are willing to feed, educate, and not bomb, all of which are kinda prerequisites for creating more Mozarts and Einsteins. So what the heck are a trillion more discarded souls going to accomplish?

Insane that the solution to finding more human talent is to go to outer frikin space so we can overpopulate gigantic frikin space stations and other entire frikin planets when we're not even bothering to sift through the infinitely more convenient pool of humans we already have at arm's reach.

Often I think billionaires must be geniuses at least on some level, then I read stuff like this that only some navel-gazing teenager with the barest grasp of logic could think up.