by Karl Denninger
Market-Ticker.org
So you want to spend six figures to take a sub-orbital flight?
Be my guest.
You want to “thank” your employees (and everyone who you put out of business through questionable practices) for subsidizing your personal ride? Drop dead — and I hope it hurts. A lot.
Beelzebezos has always been a pig in my opinion; that’s not new. So it shouldn’t surprise what my take was on his little rocket ride.
But let’s cut the crap about what this was: He was no more an “astronaut” than I’m a pilot when I sit in the back of a commercial airplane.
I have no role in making it happen at the time, if things go to Hell I have no ability to do anything about it (especially after 9/11 with armored cockpit doors), the entire thing is out of my control as someone else (in this case automation) runs the whole thing and in this case if the parachute was a block of ice or otherwise didn’t deploy, well, sucks to be you in the 150mph or so impact with the ground.