19/04/2025
11-MINUTE FLIGHT COSTING $11 MILLION TO SUPPORT “FEMALE EMPOWERMENT”
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While the billionaire space race sees the mega-rich play with their toys, back down on Earth, people are struggling under the weight of their excess.
This flight, sending six rich and famous women to space, was marketed as a moment of “female empowerment.”
You want to empower women? Try universal healthcare, a living wage, safe housing, affordable public transport and oh—TAX. THE. RICH!
Blue Origin’s enterprise isn’t just tone-deaf—it’s dystopian cosplay in zero gravity.
Lauren Sánchez said after landing: “Protect this planet we’re on, this is the only one we’ve got.”
The irony? Her fiancé is Jeff Bezos, owner of Blue Origin and Amazon— a company infamous for treating its workers so poorly they resort to peeing in bottles and still can’t make ends meet. His practices epitomize corporate greed that accelerates climate change—profiting while the planet pays the price.
Taxing the mega-rich is looking more and more like common sense.
said: “Space is going to finally be glam.”
With past trips reportedly costing $28 million a seat, this is jet-fuelled patriarchy dressed up as progress.
Look, we don’t mind you leaving Earth—just don’t trash it on your way out.
We’ve only got one planet. Stop riding off in a giant metal p***s for a PR stunt.
