Aliens and Banjos...
Rappers and aliens 
Tomatoes and space. Where are we going with this. Space travel is the elitiest concept ...on earth. tampabay.com/news/florida/2…
Prices have doubled (now $450K on Virgin) Some guy bid $28M to ride Bezos blue Amazon penis, Musk has not chosen prices for Space X junkets. But odds are good you are not going anywhere into space anytime soon. seekingalpha.com/article/446386…
All this tourism PR bullshit are just PR bandaids for the subsidies we already pay and will pay to keep these "private" space companies afloat. fee.org/articles/the-u…
I am all for being a billionaire but there is some wonderful synergy between getting billions in subsidies while being slammed for paying low percentages. Sure they pay business taxes and employ thousands of people but it seems to rub people the wrong way. mebere.com/elon-musk-and-…
Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in steel (> $300B today) and then built beautiful libraries across the nation. Most are struggling to survive. He said“The man who dies rich dies disgraced.” A good benchmark. npr.org/2013/08/01/207…
Bill Gates turned pirated C/PM into a fortune. His foundation has around $50 billion in assets. He and Warren Buffett convinced a list of other billionaires to give away their fortunes (checks watch)....at some point. But there is a problem. inc.com/geoffrey-james…
The super rich make money faster than they can give it away or spend it. Bill Gates makes a roughly $127 a second. "If Gates dropped a $100 bill on the ground, it would not be worth the time he spent to pick it up" Ouch. dontdiewondering.com/how-much-do-bi…
Again that's a plus, if that power of money making money could be harnessed towards strengthening the country and people who helped them make that fortune. Then that's a win/win. Charity is changing. Money is changing. timesunion.com/news/article/W…
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