Opinion

Wish for spacebound billionaires

Posted July 17, 2021 1:00 am

Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Virgin Atlantic's Richard Branson have decided the next frontier for each of them is space travel.

Both are multibillionaires. It seems they have decided accumulating money, once you have so many billions, is no longer compelling. The next challenge? Space travel.

Branson went into space for all of 90 minutes, three of which was in orbit, on July 11.

He is said to have moved his trip up to make sure he won the one-upmanship contest.

I recognize that for those who have so much money there is no longer any challenge or sense of satisfaction in merely making more. I appreciate the resources and risks involved in such a trip.

I do have one wish for both of these mega billionaires: that they would pay their taxes.

Karen Wagner

Rolling Meadows

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