There's A Reason Only Highly Trained Astronauts Do Space Walks......

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/spacex-blasts-off-billionaire-and-three-other-private-astronauts-for-risky-first-ever-spacewalk-13212235

I hope this works out for them but It's very risky.

[Untitled]

billionaires launching themselves into space... a problem that solves itself 🤣

[Untitled]

"testing a new suit in the vacuum of space, from a spacecraft that doesn’t even have an airlock."

oh they are done

[ToraToraTora]

You don't like people that do ok do you untitled? You think "what b'stards how did they do so well, slap them down, hope they die" I think "well done, how can I can do 1% as well". You seem to have a 4x2 on your shoulder.

[ToraToraTora]

^^^^ nasty Left?

[gulliver1]

......................😎😎Radicalised Right😎😎.....................

[Untitled]

billionaire is not "doing ok" lol. nobody has ever or could ever do anything to earn such a ridiculous sum of money. there are no "good" billionaries. they are modern equivalents of lords with serfs.

[Untitled]

i genuinely think billionaries are a parasitic class of people who do an awful lot of damage to the world toratoratora. i think allowing individual citizens to become that wealthy gives them power and status which is completely at odds with equality before the law and with democratic accountability. i don't care if a person becomes wealthy--good for them--but i think people really do fail to understand quite how much money a billionaire has and the kinds of horrible things one always has to do in order to get that sum of money.

[davebro3]

I'll ask Bill Gates....

[ToraToraTora]

13:37 So how do we stop these "parasites"? I doubt they start out with becomming a billionaire as the aim. The ones we know started a sucessful company at the right time with the right product or business and it went rather well. That endeavour employs millions of others world wide. Would you stifle all that because you are uncomfortable with the success of the founders? How would you limit their wealth? "Right Bezos you've reached $N dollars we are confiscating the rest". "Ok I'll stop expanding and hiring then. In fact I have enough I'll just close my business down and throw 1000000 on to the dole."

That's the problem with socialism, they hate the creators of wealth yet they offer only penury as a replacement.

[Untitled]

indeed. pal of jeffrey epstein bill gates.

[naomi24]

Untitled's is the politics of envy.

[Peter Pedant]

 "what b'stards how did they do so well, slap them down, hope they die"

I note TTT is still on planet Earth ( terra) with feet firmly on the ground no matter some of us wish....

[ToraToraTora]

13:37 what horrible things have any of these done?

Bill Gates

Jeff Bezos

Steve Jobs

Mark Zuckerberg

Elon Musk

Richard Branson

Steve Wozniak

etc

[Untitled]

i don't envy billionaires. i am afraid of them. i simply do not want individual people to have that much unchecked power.

being a billionaire is entirely voluntary. you can stop at any time.

[THECORBYLOON]

A reminder that this thread is about proposed space-walks and not the private lives of particular wealthy folk.

[Peter Pedant]

"Right Bezos you've reached $N dollars we are confiscating the rest". 

no that was his wife ( adultery) and N was 67 Billion.

SHE said I dont need that much and gave a billion to charity

[naomi24]

But you want the power to limit their wealth, untitled.

[Peter Pedant]

oops CBL - so you dont want to see my knickers again?

[Untitled]

i want a democratically accountable state to do it, naomi. do you not understand how that is different?

a person with £10 million in the bank is not wealthy enough to do any real harm.

a person with £1 billion+? they can do pretty much whatever they want and get away with it. i don't think that's good for the world.