In space, no one will hear Bezos and Musk's workers' call for basic rights
Robert Reich
Sun 25 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT
The bosses of Tesla and Amazon want to take humans to Mars and beyond – but won’t show basic humanity on Earth
Elon Musk’s SpaceX just won a $2.9bn Nasa contract to land astronauts on the moon, beating out Jeff Bezos.
The money isn’t a big deal for either of them. Musk is worth $179.7bn. Bezos, $197.8bn. Together, that’s almost as much as the bottom 40% of Americans combined.
And the moon is only their stepping stone.
Musk says SpaceX will land humans on Mars by 2026 and wants to establish a colony by 2050. Its purpose, he says, will be to ensure the survival of our species.
“If we make life multi-planetary, there may come a day when some plants and animals die out on Earth but are still alive on Mars,” he tweeted.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/25/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-space-moon-mars-workers-rights-unions