![]() Though, in the grand scheme of things, the money Bezos paid to build a rocket and fly to space amounted to mere pennies when pressed up against his reported $177 billion net worth, those of us still struggling to pay off our student loans couldn’t help but feel slightly unnerved by the blatant display of wasted wealth.Īnd as one of the internet’s easiest guys to hate (never forget when he made $13 billion in a single day, setting a world record in the process), it’s no surprise that his little vanity trip inspired a whole host of hilarious memes, which Twitter users have been sending off in rapid fire succession since the wee hours of this morning. The tyrannical Amazon CEO took the wildly expensive trip alongside his brother, Mark Bezos pilot Wally Funk, the oldest person to do so and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, the youngest person to do so, who notably paid $28 million to board the admittedly history-making flight. Approximately eleven minutes later, Bezos returned safely back to Earth (alas, a conclusion I personally was rooting against). ![]() Earlier this morning, Jeff Bezos - the undisputed wealthiest person in the world - boarded his self-funded Blue Origin New Shepard rocket and launched into space.
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