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The world's richest man's 4 minute trip to space, as told in 17 memes.

"Who wants a skittle?"

With the curve of the earth below them and on the edge of space, the richest man on earth threw lollies into his crewmates' mouths during their four-minute visit to space.  

In case you missed it, overnight Amazon founder Jeff Bezos went to space. He was joined by his brother Mark, as well as the oldest person to ever go to space, 82-year-old former pilot Wally Funk, and the youngest, 18-year-old Oliver Daemen - whose father bought him a ticket.

Watch: Jeff Bezos throws skittles in space. Post continues below. 

Bezos and other entrepreneurs including UK billionaire Richard Branson intend to start a market in space tourism, boasting the spectacular views of earth. You know, so the average folk can go.

Blue Origin has already announced two more flights for this year and kept promoting ticket sales during the live broadcast of Bezos' space excursion.

The New Shepard went more than 100km above the earth, over the Karman Line space boundary.

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cat 3 years ago
How is it that this man is allowed to go into space when he keeps workers in modern slavery conditions? Let's imprison him, take his money and end homelessness in the US. Or vaccinate the third world. Develop carbon neutral energy, feed the starving children in Syria.... literally anything except vanity flights for billionaires. 
laura__palmer 3 years ago
@cat What is absolutely disgusting is that his business model is legal. I  find this obscene.
michael 3 years ago 1 upvotes
@laura__palmer What paying employees who chose to work at a company he owns should be illegal? Nobody is forcing people to work at Amazon.
cat 3 years ago 1 upvotes
@laura__palmer I guess in some ways he's just innovated by keeping the slave labourers in the US, rather than off-shoring to other countries. 
cat 3 years ago 1 upvotes
@michael many, many people are being forced to work at Amazon. You don't have to have a gun to your head to be forced to do something. There are far subtler and far more effective ways, like bribing the state government into changing the labour laws. 

anonymous 3 years ago 2 upvotes
Pity he couldn't spend the money on paying and improving the working conditions of his workers. What an absolute scumbag.
rush 3 years ago
@anonymous or paying taxes.