Last Tuesday, Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, soared into space in a rocket many observers compared to a penis. A week or so before that, Richard Branson also blasted himself to the edge of space in a “spaceplane” designed by his company, Virgin Galactic.
After his history-making feat, Jeff Bezos gave $100 million to CNN commentator Van Jones, and another $100 million to chef José Andrés, who has dedicated himself to providing free meals to frontline workers and others in need during the pandemic. They were asked by Bezos to use the money for charitable purposes. This beneficence was a type of “apology” for his grotesque act of hubris and ego: he and most others of his class have no sincere sense of social obligation.
In so many ways these billionaires and their space adventures, during a time of human misery and rising neofascism in America and
