Dear Outsider,
Plenty of people have dreamed about pelting Jeffrey Bezos’ penis-shaped head with rotten eggs over the years.
As Amazon’s founder, it’s well known that he has a horrible temper, treats his employees with utter disdain, and — as one former Amazon engineer put it — “makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.”
None of this does much goodwill for a man that already seems like a Bond villain. Not only does he have the Dr. Evil haircut and megalomania surging through a bulging blood vessel in his head, but he’s even commissioned a 500-foot-tall clock to be embedded in a mountain in West Texas.
The “10,000-Year Clock” will tick once a year and chime every millennium.
That’s not something ordinary people do…
This leads me to “Throwing Eggs at Jeff Bezos’ Superyacht” day, which is steadily approaching…
I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but Jeff Bezos has a big-ass boat…
When delivered, it will be the world’s largest yacht. At 127 meters, it’s actually larger than a goddamn football field. It is estimated to cost around $500 million with an annual maintenance of $20 million. This is peanuts to Bezos, who makes — on average — $3,715 a second. He’s on-and-off the richest person on the planet and can afford such wild luxuries. So nobody can bat an eye when he buys the biggest yacht since the Sea Cloud in 1931. Soak that up.
Here comes the backlash…
The megayacht is being built and needs to pass through the town of Rotterdam in Southern Holland. Once the half-billion dollar boat is completed, it will need to be delivered to Jeff — which is where the problem comes in. Its masts are so high that he’ll need to destroy a historic bridge for it to pass through.
The Koningshaven Bridge would have to be dismantled in order to fulfill the wishes of said maniacal overlord of online shopping. This obviously drew the ire of the Rotterdam community, which has promised to toss the aforementioned rotten eggs at the grotesque superyacht.
So far 3,000 citizens have already signed up to attend — and presumably let thousands more eggs rot in the meantime.
“We don’t just take it apart for the phallus symbol of a megalomaniac billionaire. Not without a fight,” the statement reads.
The bridge does have significant cultural value. It was destroyed in a Nazi Luftwaffe attack in 1940 and it was promised to the Dutch after a renovation in 2017 that it would never be dismantled.
But money talks…
According to Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies, the collective wealth of 657 billionaires in the U.S. grew by almost 50% — roughly $1.3 trillion — during the COVID pandemic. During that time, a record 887 superyachts were sold.
So while we’re all here mired in the misery of masks, work and school closures, and general malaise, the super rich are happily dismantling bridges for superyachts. Meanwhile, the president is visiting Pennsylvania pushing infrastructure bills while bridges are literally falling down on the way to talk about bridges falling down. If you haven’t heard of gephyrophobia, look it up. It’s a fear of bridges and I suspect someone you know has this disorder. Given the state of our national bridges, it doesn’t sound so crazy.
Rich people love showing off their wealth. They also like showing off their power at the same time. That’s what Bezos is doing not just in the nautical realm, but in space as well. Certainly you have seen his Blue Origin project that launches wealthy celebrities and business moguls into space for a short while.
To further get a glimpse into Jeff Bezos’ character, just watch the video of him interrupting William Shatner’s heart-felt speech about what the trip meant to him by laughing maniacally and spraying champagne all over the crowd.
You can’t make this shit up…
“Throwing Eggs at Jeff Bezos’ Superyacht” is one way to take it to the man. But the better way is to invest in a company that could put Blue Origin to shame. My colleague Jason Simpkins has uncovered a company that is beating Bezos at his own vanity project.
It’s the real profit opportunity that the space industry offers, and you don’t need to be floating in some billionaire’s rocket ship 62 miles up to see it. It’s plain to see from the comfort of your own couch. And it’s accessible to everyone because Jason has found the perfect stock to play it. There is a company that just listed on the Nasdaq whose whole business model is to launch small satellites into low-earth orbit. It aims to do it cheaply and on a massive scale, meeting the vast needs for internet service providers, cable companies, and more.
It’s a much, much better business plan than floating millionaires into the atmosphere for fiendish laughter. The market itself is already magnitudes bigger, and its potential for expansion is far greater.
I highly recommend you check out Jason’s full report here. It has the complete details as well as full reports on two other space companies with huge profit potential.
Do not hesitate. Don’t just toss eggs at every billionaire who buys superyachts or launches himself into space. Like the old phrase goes, “Don’t wrestle with pigs. You both get filthy and the pig likes it.”
