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Elri · ‎06-24-2016

I think Jeff Bezos seems like a nice guy. I remember seeing him interviewed on NBC in the 90s when he started Amazon. He was standing on a catwalk high above the massive warehouse floor (that was kind of empty). Below, I saw a several conveyor belts with only a few packaged items traveling to the cash registers.

The interviewer was asking him how much he invested and JB answered and laughed maniacally (really funny laugh). Then the interviewer asked him if he thought his idea would ever work. Again, maniacal laugh from JB. Finally he asked Bezos if he had made any money yet. He said: "No." The loudest laugh ever followed.

Anyway, he had an idea and he made it happen. I admire that.

I agree that he can spend his money any way he likes.

I tried to illustrate how much $1B is. If you had a billion dollars and you spent $5,000 every day, you would run out in 500 years. Hello.....

The universal flu vaccine: wouldn't that make a huge difference in our lives? It would be a wonderful accomplishment. So many health problems could be addressed.

Cats3000 · ‎10-07-2013

It is HIS MONEY. What he does with it is HIS BUSINESS, and no one else's.

Now, what's to discuss?

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

Next question, what would or could you do with that amount of money?

Oh boy, so many things and I'd start right here on earth for the people.

CrazyDaisy · ‎03-20-2010

@Elri wrote:
I think Jeff Bezos seems like a nice guy. I remember seeing him interviewed on NBC in the 90s when he started Amazon. He was standing on a catwalk high above the massive warehouse floor (that was kind of empty). Below, I saw a several conveyor belts with only a few packaged items traveling to the cash registers.

The interviewer was asking him how much he invested and JB answered and laughed maniacally (really funny laugh). Then the interviewer asked him if he thought his idea would ever work. Again, maniacal laugh from JB. Finally he asked Bezos if he had made any money yet. He said: "No." The loudest laugh ever followed.

Anyway, he had an idea and he made it happen. I admire that.
I agree that he can spend his money any way he likes.

I tried to illustrate how much $1B is. If you had a billion dollars and you spent $5,000 every day, you would run out in 500 years. Hello.....

The universal flu vaccine: wouldn't that make a huge difference in our lives? It would be a wonderful accomplishment. So many health problems could be addressed.

I would have to ask, what would be the point of keeping all the people alive when the earth can not longer support the growing population. Looking for expansion into space is a necessary alternative for the human population.

Someday, when scientists discover the center of the Universe....some people will be disappointed it is not them.

esmeraldagooch · ‎03-10-2010

We have all seen what billionaires who are nudging things in the direction they think best have harmed society. We don't need to give him any ideas.

dex · ‎03-09-2010

He had a mammoth dream and made it happen...now some people feel he should be doing something wonderful for humanity.He made the money taking all of the risks so he has the right to choose how he wants to manage the Bezo billions.

BadWolf · ‎10-10-2014

Looks like your math is off.

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

Imo anyone who has their sites on outer-space exploration and development is looking at the really big picture of our survival as a species. I think it is a wise decision because many believe that our days here on planet Earth are numbered. We need to move off of this rock and find a new one.

GingerPeach · ‎03-12-2010

@RoughDraft wrote:
@GingerPeach wrote:
Spending so much on outer space is almost cowardly.
It makes me think of sci-fi movies in which only rich and/or chosen people got to enter the specially built space ships to leave a devastated and hopeless Earth. No one seems to ever be able to solve Earth's problems.
Cowardly? If one wants to delve and do some research, go on NASA sight and glean the benefits of space exploration and what beneftis to the world this has given us over the last fifty years in medicine, science, etc.

You misunderstood what I said. I did not say space exploration is wrong. I said his focus on it, if that is his main and only focus, will seem to result in only an escape, not a solution.

Please read the rest of my paragraph, @RoughDraft It was very specific.

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