RE: ESG and Stewardship, coming to the market, every market, incl GOLD5 Aug 2021 10:03
Battle was finally joined this last week in the ongoing rivalry between duelling billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos to see which of them can have the more dementedly expensive and ostentatious midlife crisis. Oh, and they went into space as well.
The general consensus appeared to be that Jeff Bezos won on points; not only was his flight a good 69,000 feet higher than Mr Branson’s (both billionaires, it should be pointed out, merely blasted themselves straight up into the stratosphere then straight back down again rather than going into orbit or doing any proper astronaut type stuff like that) but he truly explored the Embarrassing Divorced Dad potential of the journey by going up in a spaceship that was, quite literally, dick-shaped.
One supposes that a degree of phallic-ness is inevitable where space rockets are concerned, but if you’ve seen pictures of Mr. Bezos’s Blue Origin craft, you will know that there were design elements present which definitely looked more like a conscious expression of virility than anything to do with aerodynamics.!
What a complete pair of "Knob's" these blokes are when you consider how much tax they have both avoided to literally blow it on this waste of resources!
They could have saved a rain forest, irrigated parts of Africa, provided healthcare and education for millions of the worlds poor, but no they would rather blow it on trying to be the billionaire that got that little bit higher than the other one!