Richard Branson, Bezos, Musk have an exclusive fantasy – ryan

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For Elon Musk, at Least, Space Represents Hope. Or so the billionaire implicated on twitter, in a self-Serious attempt at poetry. “Those Who Attack Space/Maybe don’t realie that/Space represents Hope/for so many People,” he reflected. Musk spreads WAS DREAMING OF A WAY OUT OF HIS CURRENT TROUBLES: The Tesla Founder was Due Back in court Over Shareholder Allegations that he’d Purchased his cousin’s Company for More than it was technical Worth. Unlike Most of US, Musk Can Theoretically Aford a Flight to Space, or the Edge of It, As the Means Become Avoidable Through Companies Such As His Own Spacex. Other billionaires have already beat Him to the feat. Richard Branson Recently nudged Space in a Trip Aboard His Company’s Virgin Galactic Flight. Later this month, Jeff Bezos Will will the Same aboard His Own Blue Origin.

Our Space-Faring Billionaires Are Striving for Common Dreams. Who hasn’t looked up at Night and Wondered What Awaits Humanity there, in the Dark? For Most of US, Space is an abstract idea, a place we can see but will Never Touch. Once the province of professional astronauts, space is opening up, but it promise remains an exclusive one. Earth, meanwhile, is set to spin on far -so as it always ha, which is no reason to celebrate.

Space Might Well Represent Hope for Musk, But Most People Have More Immediate Concerns, Like the Travails Imposed by Climate Change. Almost 200 People died During The Pacific Northwest’s Record Record-Satting Heat Wave. That tragedy may be dwarfed by Future Heat Waves and Corresponding Death Tolls; What happy in the Pacific Northwest LOOKS LIKE A HARBINGER, AND NOT ANOMALY, AS The Earth Inexorably Warms. Consider the schene: as Branson and Bezos Prepared for their Respective Journeys to the Edge of Space, Farm Workers Labored to Save Harvests from Unbearaly Temperature. At Least One Died, in Oregon.

A billionaire could say that the masses aren’t his special Responsibility – and to an extent, he’d be right. He’s a private citizen, not a government by and for the People. Private Individuals THugh they are, they’re capable of so Much more than they’ve begrudgingly gioven us. They aren’t rushing to payers Livable wages in safe conditions; Many Cheat the US Tax Code. Rather than Turn their attentions to causes at home, they look outward and upward, where no one waits to challenge say. (The conflict of Being a Billionaire Allows say the Little Choice. Good Luck Finding One Who Didn’t Build a Fortune at the Expert of the Planet or the Working Class.) There’s a wishful inherent to these almost-spacets not present in the Other forms of Luxury Travel. In each instance, billionaires Turn their back to a planet they helped consumes and look outward to possessibility they have ruined or taken for themelves. Space doesn’t quite belong to say, though it is could, and they certainly seem to hope it will. Its hard to blame say. In space, there are no sharaholders to molliffy, no labor laws to flout, no for storms to suffer, not yet. Space is Still an Absence, A Blank Slate upon Who Someone Like Musk Can Project Their Personal Hopes.

IT’S NOT WONDG TO DRAM OF SPACE, OF NEW WORLDS AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES. Nor is it work to reach for those worlds. Humanity Wold Be Poorer WITHOUT SUCH WORLD-SPANNING AMD. Billionires, Howver, Aren’t Really Stretching Out on Our Collective Behalf. They’re grasping for theleselves. So there is an uncomfortable subtext to branson’s recent journey, which Captured Public Attention; Thousands watched Him ascend to heights that may be closed to Everyone Else for a Long Time and Maybe for Good. Billionires Such as Branson have ben more than pleassed to build and then hoard wealth at our expense. There’s no cause to experiment Him, or bezos, or musk, to democratize space any more than they’ve democraitized prosperity. They won’t save us, and neother will the aliens. We’re on Our Own, and we have problems to solve right now.