WHAT FUCKWAD!
(reflecting
realities as of July 20, 2021)
by
George Fish
I read the news the other day,
oh boy!
British billionaire
Richard Branson took off for
space in his own self-financed
rocket ship excursion.
Now he’s followed by
another billionaire (or rather,
it’s multi-billionaire), Jeff
Bezos, richest man in the
world, again in his own self-
financed rocket ship. Soon
to come after that, obviously,
will be Elon Musk. And
so,
here we are, a space rivalry
among billionaires! Reminiscent
of the old Robert Heinlein
science fiction series about the
multimillionaire who
funded moon travel and
colonization. (Prices were much
lower when Heinlein wrote, so
millionaires could do what it
now takes billionaires to do.)
In fact, Elon Musk proposes to
do just that, with indentured
servants (to pay off the loans
he advances to them)
colonizing Mars. Talk about
the ultimate grotesquery in
Thorstein Veblen-style
“conspicuous consumption”!
Multibillionaires with way too much
money and time on their hands,
not to mention egos, having a
high school rivalry on who
can make it big in space most
successfully! Meanwhile, we ordinary
working people, still reeling from
the ravages of the COVID-19
pandemic, are still worrying about
making ends meet. Is this ridiculous,
or what?
Or is this just capitalism
showing how absurd a social and
economic system it really is?
