More than 60,000 people have signed online petitions urging Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos to not return to Earth after he takes his maiden flight to space on July 20.
On June 7, billionaire Jeff Bezos announced he will be flying to space, adding that he will venture into space on board New Shephard, the rocket system developed by his space company Blue Origin.
The most popular petition was “billionaires should not exist… on earth, or in space, but should they decide the latter they should stay there”.
Bezos announced on Instagram that he will go to space with his brother Mark Bezos and the winner of the ongoing auction for $28 million.
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In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, the billionaire said that “Being a billionaire is a lot harder than it looks”
When asked that why he does not want to donate his money to foundations the latter questioned “are you just to hand it to someone and hope they do the right thing with it? You have built entire infrastructures to give the money away?”