PATRICK BULGER | Roger and out: a last blast for capitalism as Bezos whoops through his 10 minutes of flame

Billionaire straps himself to a rocket to give humanity a fighting chance of surviving the banality of life in the internet age

22 July 2021 - 20:23 By patrick bulger

In what only socialists and spoilsports will begrudge as a PR coup for latest-stage capitalism, online shopping mogul Jeff Bezos has at last savoured a delicacy on offer to only the very richest, that priceless feeling of weightlessness — if they care to pay for it. In doing so, Bezos emulated the feat first performed by old-style Soviet communism when Yuri Gagarin, an upskilled steelworker, blasted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 12 1961, and spent 118 minutes gazing down on the great blue ball of tears and regret we call Earth...

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