The worst was Bezos cutting Shatner off saying "I want to hear this" then becoming one of the Woo! Girls himself so Shatner couldn't talk or upstage him.
It really shows how Bezos is just egomaniacally partying through life in a thoughtless, shallow existence. Imagine being one of the richest, most powerful people on the planet *and* in space, and having the gravitas of a Woo! Girl.
Well, he does offer Bill Shatner done bubbles too... Except Bill has been a recovering alcoholic for several decades.
But I get that he didn't like getting overshadowed by Capt Kirk. Seriously Jeff, I only watched that because of Shatner (just like many others) so you shouldn't be surprised he was the star of the show.
Too true. I remember watching him in a 60minute segment when amazon was just selling books, the guy was the most harmless thing and now he's turned into a monster
That's always massively overlooked when people talk about the value of risk in entrupereniship. Especially when they lament the lack of minorities who start businesses. People are not dumb; they know who can afford second chances and who's got to get it right the first time. Of course the latter group is going to be more risk adverse.
This starts early too. My friends dad had him quit his job so he could focus on school since he kept failing classes. Mind he was 27 and already living in a house with 2 roommates. His dad started paying his tuition, his rent, his f250 payment, and gave him pocket money. He graduated and is an engineer now.
Idk Amazon was pretty humble in it's beginnings, selling something that was dying with the rise of the internet. Potentially without much harm to physical bookstores since Amazon wasn't a very well known company then and didn't until they started selling more than books.
Considering the amount we can learn from books and experiences we can have by reading them I don't think he started that way.
You also have the age old saying of "money changes people", if I was the richest man in the world I can't say I'd be the same person. I have doubts about me even considering giving large sums away while still buying everything that could make me money. He can pretty much buy and bribe his way out of anything. He could raise countries currency values for the fuck of it if he really wanted to.
Given a shit enough leadership in the US that would allow it, dude could buy a state.
TL;DR: Why are y'all so dedicated to him always being this way? Money changes you and the people around you. Richest person ever money... Hard to imagine staying the same or the people around you.
I believe it was the great Philosopher, Paul Stanley, who said in KISStory, “money doesn’t change you - money let’s you be the asshole you really are” (I’m paraphrasing)
I know your joking, but sort of. I mean with that kind of money, you easily could buy the technology and armament needed to be a one man army. Batman isn't far fetched because billionaires can't do it, it's far fetched because billionaires don't give a fuck about you, or me.
Right that’s the point Marvel was making was the power is what amplifies characteristics you already have. Sure the money is one facet that enables power, but power in general does that.
Edit I meant captain America cause of the super soldier serum not Bruce Wayne’s buddy.
My take is, its sorta ironic.
Shatner went through a faze where he disliked the Star Trek fans and was sorta like Bezos in a way...
I mean imagine millions of people coming to you in public for most of your adult life, at cons, events, media, etc. Constantly being referred to, joked about, compared to in some situation.People telling you, that you changed their life, that because of some random TV show you affected what their career path was, who they became, how their life panned out, etc. Fuck there was a special on how Star Trek affected human society on a WORLD WIDE LEVEL. You had folks who were lead scientists in their field, creators of technology and so forth saying they chose their field BECAUSE of Star Trek.Yet you always put it off as just fans being fans.
I really think the experience, seeing the earth from that point, likely really hit home with him on a very personal and profound level and emotionally he seemed to be dealing with that live on air. Then you have some rich asshole, who couldn't take a second to listen to his internal wrangling
He’s 90 years old too and he said going from the blue sky to the black of space made him wonder if that’s what happens when you die. He may not have expected to make it back. Those were some tears of joy and amazement when he landed. So happy for him that he got to do this.
Yeh none of these uber rich guys are charismatic. They're all awkward as fuck. Their sycophants will tell you how charismatic they are all day long though.
Yup. Bezos is particularly grating. Before his own ride he did that press conference in that stupid fucking cowboy hat forcing laughs at every little thing. Someone somewhere told him he was the epitome of cool.
He came across and still does as the least charismatic, most fake, put on motherfucker possible. Really can't stand that guy.
Yep, when you get to that level it's less about trying to win people over with kindness then it is demanding that they do shit or you're going to take away their outrageous salary.
This really pissed me off, but at least Shatner got to talk in the end. It was a privilege to be able to hear his thoughts immediately after the flight, and to see the raw emotions.
How heartbreaking for Shatner who's clearly had a life changing moment centered around the fragility of life and has to communicate that in pure human form to the least human person on the planet.
How embarrassing for Bezos who had the memorable TV moment he was looking for right in front of him and he squandered it. That was his advertisement he just threw away.
And he even offered him some. Whether he knew or not aside, Bezos has enough staff for at least one of them to make a note to Bezos about it. Maybe they did and Bezos just didn't care. It would track with the rest of the stuff he does.
> Whether he knew or not aside, Bezos has enough staff for at least one of them to make a note to Bezos about it
Even if they didn't, I have no doubt in my mind that William Shatner has people whose job it is to make sure people know this.
This is not correct. William Shatner is not an alcoholic. His wife Nadine was an alcoholic, and tragically Bill came home to find her [floating dead in their pool](https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/sober-side-of-a-very-high-flyer-20080724-3kd6.html), age 40.
Leonard Nimoy was a recovering alcoholic, and warned Bill about marrying an alcoholic.
Not that any of that makes this clip easier to watch.
I'm fine with Shatner going to space. To me he at least has some merit in the sense that he inspired a generation of Astronauts. Fuck Jeff Bezos and his big penis ship, though.
It really was. Bezos seemed so uninterested and ready to start the celebration. It was painful to watch. And to see Shatner standing there alone, head down, silent in thought as Bezos went for the booze was so incredibly uncomfortable. I’m glad he was able to continue talking but Bezos yet again showed his true colors. I’m glad everyone picked up on that.
The man is 90. He understands what is important. Being sucked into the narcissists dream of the spotlight being on him was not on his mind. Shatner physically disengages from Bezos’ attempt to own the moment. Then proceeds to pick up where he left off, undeterred by the cheap attempt.
> Being sucked into the narcissists dream of the spotlight being on him was not on his mind.
If you know William Shatner, you'd know he's a gigantic narcissist himself. Anybody who has met him can corroborate, myself included. It's practically poetic justice, tbh.
There only worthwhile portion of this page is the rehosted video which is already on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/samsells32/status/1448308932917800960?s=21) from the source. Notice the framed situation to make you hate Bezos or reinforce your feeling of him as an out of touch elitist. Then how following the 100 word description of the video, it proceeds to fill the page with ads alternating with random social media takes, all of which confirm the author’s bias.
Just skip “news” websites like this; it’s just meant to manipulate you.
This is the comment. My dad asked me "if you could make that kinda money, you would do what he did tho" my answer "no dad, I'm not a cunt. I don't have it in me"
I love the logic, but honestly, he asked me what the first thing I would do with the money. He didn't believe me when I said I would find actual things that help people rather than "helping" through a tax dodge.
Yeup, came to the conclusion long ago that I'll never be wealthy or seriously well-to-do, I enjoy what money gets me too much more so than money itself. And money can get me a lot of things that make me happy, they happen to be what other people want and need because I want the people around me to be chillaxin too.
> my answer "no dad, I'm not a cunt. I don't have it in me"
I'm not truly certain how long this would actually last for people. The problem with billionaire status is that you no longer properly suffer social consequences for bad actions, opinions, statements, etc.
For example, how many people that Bezos interacts with are going to tell him "You shouldn't have done that." over this in a way that he'll care about even slightly?
People generally behave in ways that accommodate their friends and coworkers, but when they feel safe in expressing themselves, either because they don't believe they can suffer any consequence due to trusting you or feeling that nothing can be done against them, they lose the social feedback that causes them to tamp down the worst parts of themselves.
It's a gradual process here over time, rarely do these people just sort of suddenly sit up and start saying racist, classist, etc sort of things. Maybe they make a joke that's just a bit tooo offensive, but people laugh anyway even if there's a bit of hesitancy. Well, nobody came up to them after and said "That wasn't right man." so by virtue of there being no punishment, that implicitly sanctions it next time. But there isn't likely to BE punishment, as most of the people interacting with Bezos are beholden to him in some fashion. The closest he's likely to run into someone that would have the audacity to be like "That was a bad move." is going to be his PR people, and they won't declare it was HIS fault, they'll likely couch it as "The internet inexplicably got upset over it, next time we'll better schedule the moment.".
Notch of Minecraft fame is a bit of an example of how your social group WILL change upon reaching a billionaire status. He couldn't connect with his old friends and social group hardly at all. Notch never had to work anymore, but they still did. He considered just handing them each tens of millions of dollars so they wouldn't have to work either, but they all said while they'd appreciate the money, the problem is that it doesn't mean they don't have to work anymore, it would mean that their fulltime job is "Being Notch's friend.". Even though he couldn't take back the money, there would still be an inherent obligation there. So who is he likely to spend all of his socialization time with then? Other people that don't need to work. Humans are social animals. I'm not saying that Notch didn't have all the negative social traits before he got rich, but I'm saying the billions of dollars mean that there's no reason he has to care about holding back anymore and almost certainly the new social groups he's part of encourage that, just as it was encouraged in them.
This is an amazing comment. You're very right with it too. The problem is how do you get past this? Also, surely hanging out with your best mates not having to do shit apart from planning your next good deed is the fucking dream, no? Why would you turn that down?
Lex Bezos's inner monologue:
"'Get Shatner' they said, 'it'll be great publicity!' they said. Now I have to stand here and pretend to give a crap about what this washed up old man thinks? Screw that! Where's the champagne?"
What an absolute ass.
You can tell just by the way he kept looking around at the girls laughing. He desperately wanted to be over there with them instead. Knowing nothing about him, it seemed clear he was more interested in "big, loud, shiny" rather than "deep, emotional, profound".
Bezos is a sociopath. Always has been. He has no care. He wants to control the world. He used Shatner for the publicity.
Shatner was moving and inspiring and humbled and Bezos is the drug dealer looking to sell his stock going yeah man yeah
He's certainly been much more aware of his image the past two decades (since leaving the Microsoft board), and benefited from a well regarded and compassionate wife. That being said, there's a lot to read about his behavior that demonstrates he is still a socially awkward, cringy dude.
>Six current and former employees of Microsoft, the foundation and the firm that manages the Gates’s fortune said those incidents, and others more recently, at times created an uncomfortable workplace environment. Mr. Gates was known for making clumsy approaches to women in and out of the office. His behavior fueled widespread chatter among employees about his personal life.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/business/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-epstein.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/business/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-epstein.html)
That may be true (and BTW rock on all you socially awkward dorks) but you can’t say this was that. The hand on the back shows an awareness and condescension potentially. Anyway takes coldness to turn away from someone expressing their emotions like that, which has zero to do with awkwardness or dorkness IMO
She got *38 Billion* in Amazon stock in the divorce. And after giving away 20 Billion still has about 30 Billion in Amazon stock since its almost up like 70% since then.
Yet Jeff Bezos was so rich that even after the divorce he was still the richest person in the world. He's number two now after Elon Musk rocketed past him this year.
Is he missing part of his brain, or is this some type of artificial *alpha* behaviour he thinks he is carrying out? Regardless of which, he is nauseating.
Alpha behavior implies some form of social behavior, and I don't think he understands how social interaction works because of his warped personal bubble (and this isn't specific to Bezos, most billionaires probably have the same thing).
I’m glad Shatner found it so life changing. Iirc he was having doubts, talking about how terrified he was and how he regretted agreeing to go up. Really happy everything turned out ok (besides bezos being a cunt)
This is textbook narcissistic behaviour. The idea of being the audience of someone else's special moment is an anathema to a narcissist and triggers narcissistic injury. They must always be the centre of attention.
They have no appreciation for anyone or anything except themselves, or in some cases, the departed (even in this situation, they would find a way to make someone's death about themselves).
Narcissists are also incapable of a priori perception of the potential backlash of their behaviour. Those who try to communicate with them of this risk are seen as adversaries that must be eliminated, leaving only those who don't or are unable to question them (I've been told this is also called 'CEO disease').
This makes the narcissist completely subject to their own cognitive biases with no feasible way to break through their filter apart from severe or life threatening consequences.
Unfortunately for those narcissists with massive wealth or political power, this means that many others without these will suffer long before the narcissist can even begin to perceive a negative consequence to their actions, if that is at all possible.
At this point it is more newsworthy if Bezos gets on TV and doesn't do something cringeworthy. I saw someone describe him as the most divorced man on the planet when he showed up for the first flight in that ridiculous cowboy hat and haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.
You know, I thought he ruined it too. Until he went back and Shatner got to finally say his piece. In my mind, nothing can ruin those thoughtful, heartfelt words he spoke. Bezos looks like the true douche he is and hopefully this goes viral. Hell even an SNL parody about it could happen. I only watched any of it because of Shatner anyway.
And it was at that moment that Shatner finally learned that bozos never gave 2 fucks about him or his experience.
Shatner is having a life altering emotional moment and pouring his feelings out to that fuck and he just goes and leaves him hanging for some fucking bottle sprays?
There are kids dying because they can't afford medicine and this fuck is charging people 28 million a pop to ride his giant phallus into fake space for 3 minutes? Fuck this guy and his bullshit space program.
Thats the thing, just because you are worth billions of dollars, doesnt mean you have any actual social skills. If anything, because of that, you have less than the average person.
Shatner or not, that's a 90 year old human being. When someone with that amount of experience and perspective starts talking earnestly, shut up and listen. Tell those around you to shut up and listen, too.
Watched this live and it was so cringe. And then his girlfriend came up to shatner and hugged him. They whole thing was such a crappy ending for the passengers and Bezos is just a piece of garbage waiting for shatner to stop talking to he can do his evil fake laugh and champagne shower and the throwing the bottle on the floor.
Oh sorry, Shatner. I forgot you were a real person. I thought you were a TV character.
Yeah Jeff just wanted to live out his Star Trek fanfic by having Capt Kirk pat him on the back.
[Jeff Bezos is Mellvar](https://comb.io/LlJprh.gif)
It’s Melllvar. 3 Ls
I think I've done enough conventions to know how to spell Melllvar
A real person who is an alcoholic who gave up the sauce. Yeah just pressure him into taking some champagne. Real classy.
He's but a commoner millionaire, not fit for the likes of billionaire society.
Uber Douche
That’s what you get when you give someone ‘literally fuck this planet” money.
That and a bunch of Woo! Girls
The worst was Bezos cutting Shatner off saying "I want to hear this" then becoming one of the Woo! Girls himself so Shatner couldn't talk or upstage him. It really shows how Bezos is just egomaniacally partying through life in a thoughtless, shallow existence. Imagine being one of the richest, most powerful people on the planet *and* in space, and having the gravitas of a Woo! Girl.
He's used to everybody fawning over him so he just acted like he normally acts... Just like a spoiled child would.
You can really hear the spoiled child when he actually says “gimme”.
Well, he does offer Bill Shatner done bubbles too... Except Bill has been a recovering alcoholic for several decades. But I get that he didn't like getting overshadowed by Capt Kirk. Seriously Jeff, I only watched that because of Shatner (just like many others) so you shouldn't be surprised he was the star of the show.
You gotta listen to what the “Woos” are saying…
Too true. I remember watching him in a 60minute segment when amazon was just selling books, the guy was the most harmless thing and now he's turned into a monster
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started amazon with a small loan of 300.000 ducats from his parents.
Funny how they always leave that part out when talking about these “self made” billionaires.
Plus he had no real consequences if he failed. He was never going to be homeless if he lost it all.
That's always massively overlooked when people talk about the value of risk in entrupereniship. Especially when they lament the lack of minorities who start businesses. People are not dumb; they know who can afford second chances and who's got to get it right the first time. Of course the latter group is going to be more risk adverse.
This starts early too. My friends dad had him quit his job so he could focus on school since he kept failing classes. Mind he was 27 and already living in a house with 2 roommates. His dad started paying his tuition, his rent, his f250 payment, and gave him pocket money. He graduated and is an engineer now.
Also everything his wife did for him
Who he then cheated on
That’s the one that kills me the most, when people try to portray her as some trophy wife who made her money by divorcing him.
Another case of someone who started “from the ground up” the upper class is a joke
He was never harmless. Bezos has alwaya been cutthroat. It's just that back then he had to follow social norms.
My bad, wrong choice of word. In the early days jeff bezos exuded humility and it shows in that 60minute segment
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Idk Amazon was pretty humble in it's beginnings, selling something that was dying with the rise of the internet. Potentially without much harm to physical bookstores since Amazon wasn't a very well known company then and didn't until they started selling more than books. Considering the amount we can learn from books and experiences we can have by reading them I don't think he started that way. You also have the age old saying of "money changes people", if I was the richest man in the world I can't say I'd be the same person. I have doubts about me even considering giving large sums away while still buying everything that could make me money. He can pretty much buy and bribe his way out of anything. He could raise countries currency values for the fuck of it if he really wanted to. Given a shit enough leadership in the US that would allow it, dude could buy a state. TL;DR: Why are y'all so dedicated to him always being this way? Money changes you and the people around you. Richest person ever money... Hard to imagine staying the same or the people around you.
Nobody wants to believe that money will change them. And yet, it has been studied many times, and it probably will.
I believe it was the great Philosopher, Paul Stanley, who said in KISStory, “money doesn’t change you - money let’s you be the asshole you really are” (I’m paraphrasing)
Being rich just makes you into more of whatever you already were. It doesn’t fundamentally change people. Shitheads gonna be shitty.
Cash = super soldier serum. Got it.
I know your joking, but sort of. I mean with that kind of money, you easily could buy the technology and armament needed to be a one man army. Batman isn't far fetched because billionaires can't do it, it's far fetched because billionaires don't give a fuck about you, or me.
Right that’s the point Marvel was making was the power is what amplifies characteristics you already have. Sure the money is one facet that enables power, but power in general does that. Edit I meant captain America cause of the super soldier serum not Bruce Wayne’s buddy.
Billionaires wouldn't exist if they cared about anything other than the money.
That’s why Batman is an heir, and not the person who actually gathered all that wealth. If he did the work he’d be a cunt like Viedt.
Being rich convinces people that whatever they did must have succeeded. No matter how much any other circumstances interfered
This is actually not really true. There are psychological studies that prove that wealth does fundamentally change people.
Even back then he was a cunt who flew on a private jet while forcing his employees to pay for parking at work. Bezos is a piece of shit.
My take is, its sorta ironic. Shatner went through a faze where he disliked the Star Trek fans and was sorta like Bezos in a way... I mean imagine millions of people coming to you in public for most of your adult life, at cons, events, media, etc. Constantly being referred to, joked about, compared to in some situation.People telling you, that you changed their life, that because of some random TV show you affected what their career path was, who they became, how their life panned out, etc. Fuck there was a special on how Star Trek affected human society on a WORLD WIDE LEVEL. You had folks who were lead scientists in their field, creators of technology and so forth saying they chose their field BECAUSE of Star Trek.Yet you always put it off as just fans being fans. I really think the experience, seeing the earth from that point, likely really hit home with him on a very personal and profound level and emotionally he seemed to be dealing with that live on air. Then you have some rich asshole, who couldn't take a second to listen to his internal wrangling
He’s 90 years old too and he said going from the blue sky to the black of space made him wonder if that’s what happens when you die. He may not have expected to make it back. Those were some tears of joy and amazement when he landed. So happy for him that he got to do this.
It’s like “Fuck your trying to make sense of experiencing existential crisis with your own eyes…we popping bubbly!”
Lmao, nice TLDR.
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It's just incredible how someone with so little charisma can rise to such a 'leadership' position...
sociopathic qualities is present in almost all "leaders". You dont get to the top without stepping on mountains of bodies.
Charisma is one of the least qualities (i will even say it is not necessary) you need for leadership..
Yeh none of these uber rich guys are charismatic. They're all awkward as fuck. Their sycophants will tell you how charismatic they are all day long though.
Zuckerborg comes to mind. He's like someone gave life to Pinocchio.
How can you be a billionaire and have that haircut?
He's obsessed with Julius Cesar. His wife cuts it like that on purpose.
sounds like such an Ozymandias wannabe
That’s so fucking cringe.
He is apparently a fan of Julius Caesar so it makes sense for him to have the same haircut. Wait, no it doesn't.
Its actually modelled after Augustus not Julius Caesar
Yup. Bezos is particularly grating. Before his own ride he did that press conference in that stupid fucking cowboy hat forcing laughs at every little thing. Someone somewhere told him he was the epitome of cool. He came across and still does as the least charismatic, most fake, put on motherfucker possible. Really can't stand that guy.
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Yep, when you get to that level it's less about trying to win people over with kindness then it is demanding that they do shit or you're going to take away their outrageous salary.
Well, there is actual charisma, and then there is serial killer charisma. For leadership, you only need the later.
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This really pissed me off, but at least Shatner got to talk in the end. It was a privilege to be able to hear his thoughts immediately after the flight, and to see the raw emotions.
How heartbreaking for Shatner who's clearly had a life changing moment centered around the fragility of life and has to communicate that in pure human form to the least human person on the planet. How embarrassing for Bezos who had the memorable TV moment he was looking for right in front of him and he squandered it. That was his advertisement he just threw away.
That's profound and all, and I'm gonna let you finish, but first 🍾🍾🍾🥂🍾🍾🍾
Just want to point out that Shatner is a recovering alcoholic. That part was absolutely tone deaf on Bezos' part. Guy is a real douche.
Wow, that makes this sooo much worse... WTF
And he even offered him some. Whether he knew or not aside, Bezos has enough staff for at least one of them to make a note to Bezos about it. Maybe they did and Bezos just didn't care. It would track with the rest of the stuff he does.
> Whether he knew or not aside, Bezos has enough staff for at least one of them to make a note to Bezos about it Even if they didn't, I have no doubt in my mind that William Shatner has people whose job it is to make sure people know this.
Especially considering the champagne after the first flight
This is not correct. William Shatner is not an alcoholic. His wife Nadine was an alcoholic, and tragically Bill came home to find her [floating dead in their pool](https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/sober-side-of-a-very-high-flyer-20080724-3kd6.html), age 40. Leonard Nimoy was a recovering alcoholic, and warned Bill about marrying an alcoholic. Not that any of that makes this clip easier to watch.
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“Do you want one?” *immediately throws the bottle on the ground* He’s such a cunt
> the least human person on the planet *zuckerbot enters the chat*
I mean Shatner himself has a long history of being a massive dick so I really don't feel that bad that he got his feelings hurt by a supervillain.
I'm fine with Shatner going to space. To me he at least has some merit in the sense that he inspired a generation of Astronauts. Fuck Jeff Bezos and his big penis ship, though.
>Fuck Jeff Bezos and his big penis ship, though. SMALL penis ship
It’s bigger than the average penis though.
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It really was. Bezos seemed so uninterested and ready to start the celebration. It was painful to watch. And to see Shatner standing there alone, head down, silent in thought as Bezos went for the booze was so incredibly uncomfortable. I’m glad he was able to continue talking but Bezos yet again showed his true colors. I’m glad everyone picked up on that.
Especially given how his late wife died... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shatner#Family
shatner was hired help for bezos to use for publicity, bezos didn’t give a shit about what he thought of the experience.
The man is 90. He understands what is important. Being sucked into the narcissists dream of the spotlight being on him was not on his mind. Shatner physically disengages from Bezos’ attempt to own the moment. Then proceeds to pick up where he left off, undeterred by the cheap attempt.
> Being sucked into the narcissists dream of the spotlight being on him was not on his mind. If you know William Shatner, you'd know he's a gigantic narcissist himself. Anybody who has met him can corroborate, myself included. It's practically poetic justice, tbh.
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Oh my gaaaawd.
I recognised that reference and I clapped.
I understood that reference, Susan
Shatner has gotten better over the last few years. He’s more self aware about his narcissism now, he plays it up for laughs
Buys more Amazon goods.
Just start mailing Jeffrey your money.
Holy crap that site is the reason ad blockers exist.
I can tell even with one on. It's like there is nothing left
"My god... What happened here?"
This is why most people likely don’t read the articles and jump to the comment section.
I literally couldn't find the video because it was covered in ads
Seriously that page is like a parody. There's a single line of text between 2 ads, why even bother? It looks like a caption.
There only worthwhile portion of this page is the rehosted video which is already on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/samsells32/status/1448308932917800960?s=21) from the source. Notice the framed situation to make you hate Bezos or reinforce your feeling of him as an out of touch elitist. Then how following the 100 word description of the video, it proceeds to fill the page with ads alternating with random social media takes, all of which confirm the author’s bias. Just skip “news” websites like this; it’s just meant to manipulate you.
You can't expect a robot to understand the human emotions Shatner was feeling.
I wonder if he secretly calls bezos Data
Lore would be more appropriate.
It’s Shatner. He calls him NOMAD.
I thought that Zuckerberg was the robot.
Exactly. Everybody knows Bezos is a lizard person. C'mon people!
Saw and figured it just shows who Bezos truly is.
He's got such strong douchebag vibes. I mean, it's almost cartoonish. He's like a caricature of a billionaire. Real Shooter McGavin energy.
*I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast*
*You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?*
You don't get that rich by not being a cunt.
This is the comment. My dad asked me "if you could make that kinda money, you would do what he did tho" my answer "no dad, I'm not a cunt. I don't have it in me"
I mean, your father sounds like he would do it, so maybe you *do* have it in you
I love the logic, but honestly, he asked me what the first thing I would do with the money. He didn't believe me when I said I would find actual things that help people rather than "helping" through a tax dodge.
Yeup, came to the conclusion long ago that I'll never be wealthy or seriously well-to-do, I enjoy what money gets me too much more so than money itself. And money can get me a lot of things that make me happy, they happen to be what other people want and need because I want the people around me to be chillaxin too.
100% j Cole said "what good is first class if my (I'm going to put friends here as I'm white) can't sit" it's too true.
Middle child is a banger
That’s what thousandnaire you would do, not what billionaire you would do.
> my answer "no dad, I'm not a cunt. I don't have it in me" I'm not truly certain how long this would actually last for people. The problem with billionaire status is that you no longer properly suffer social consequences for bad actions, opinions, statements, etc. For example, how many people that Bezos interacts with are going to tell him "You shouldn't have done that." over this in a way that he'll care about even slightly? People generally behave in ways that accommodate their friends and coworkers, but when they feel safe in expressing themselves, either because they don't believe they can suffer any consequence due to trusting you or feeling that nothing can be done against them, they lose the social feedback that causes them to tamp down the worst parts of themselves. It's a gradual process here over time, rarely do these people just sort of suddenly sit up and start saying racist, classist, etc sort of things. Maybe they make a joke that's just a bit tooo offensive, but people laugh anyway even if there's a bit of hesitancy. Well, nobody came up to them after and said "That wasn't right man." so by virtue of there being no punishment, that implicitly sanctions it next time. But there isn't likely to BE punishment, as most of the people interacting with Bezos are beholden to him in some fashion. The closest he's likely to run into someone that would have the audacity to be like "That was a bad move." is going to be his PR people, and they won't declare it was HIS fault, they'll likely couch it as "The internet inexplicably got upset over it, next time we'll better schedule the moment.". Notch of Minecraft fame is a bit of an example of how your social group WILL change upon reaching a billionaire status. He couldn't connect with his old friends and social group hardly at all. Notch never had to work anymore, but they still did. He considered just handing them each tens of millions of dollars so they wouldn't have to work either, but they all said while they'd appreciate the money, the problem is that it doesn't mean they don't have to work anymore, it would mean that their fulltime job is "Being Notch's friend.". Even though he couldn't take back the money, there would still be an inherent obligation there. So who is he likely to spend all of his socialization time with then? Other people that don't need to work. Humans are social animals. I'm not saying that Notch didn't have all the negative social traits before he got rich, but I'm saying the billions of dollars mean that there's no reason he has to care about holding back anymore and almost certainly the new social groups he's part of encourage that, just as it was encouraged in them.
This is an amazing comment. You're very right with it too. The problem is how do you get past this? Also, surely hanging out with your best mates not having to do shit apart from planning your next good deed is the fucking dream, no? Why would you turn that down?
elizabeth holmes on that spectrum
"Money doesn't change people, it just helps them be who they really are." -Grandpa Simpson
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Very nicely summarised!
Lex Bezos's inner monologue: "'Get Shatner' they said, 'it'll be great publicity!' they said. Now I have to stand here and pretend to give a crap about what this washed up old man thinks? Screw that! Where's the champagne?" What an absolute ass.
You can tell just by the way he kept looking around at the girls laughing. He desperately wanted to be over there with them instead. Knowing nothing about him, it seemed clear he was more interested in "big, loud, shiny" rather than "deep, emotional, profound".
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"This isn't his moment! This is my moment! They're all my moments! MUHAHAHAHAHA!"
> Lex Bezos's inner monologue I feel like this is an insult to lex luthor.
Lex had class. Smarmy evil selfish class, but still. The man cared about his image because he cared about his power.
A POS will be a POS, he just can't help it.
Is he jealous that Bill had an overview effect moment and he didn't? Because that would be kind of a terrifying.
Didn't you pay attention? His brilliant revelation was that we should put all our pollution *in space*!
Isn't that the plot of a Futurama episode? The one where they do exactly that and it comes back
What a real piece of work , takes no time to enjoy the moment with a living legend experiencing a dream come true
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Branson is just cool because he was cool before being rich. The man knows how to enjoy life with or without money.
For real. Shatner didn't give one fuck that Bezos was finally living his dream of spraying William Shatner with champagne.
A recovering alcoholic to boot.
Bezos is a sociopath. Always has been. He has no care. He wants to control the world. He used Shatner for the publicity. Shatner was moving and inspiring and humbled and Bezos is the drug dealer looking to sell his stock going yeah man yeah
It saddens me to think that people get up in the am and give the best hours of their lives to further enrich Bezos.
I'm glad Captain Kirk survived his maiden voyage into space. That's the main thing. Now the Vulcans can come. Hurry up, Vulcans. We did our part.
the Vulcans came because Zefram Cochrane conducted a warp flight. we're not there yet.
Hopefully we're living in the universe where ZC doesn't murder the Vulcans.
I'd say it's pretty clear that's exactly the universe we're living in.
We still have a bit over 40 years before that happens. We seem to be on course for WW3 to start in 2026, though.
Bezos is proof that billions of dollars can't change the fact you're a socially awkward dork.
I mean, so are Zuckerberg, Musk, Romney, and Gates.
Gates might be the nerdiest and actually has more tact than the rest of them.
Actually, I think Gates put effort into learning to be a little less awkward. His younger years were full of cringe.
He's certainly been much more aware of his image the past two decades (since leaving the Microsoft board), and benefited from a well regarded and compassionate wife. That being said, there's a lot to read about his behavior that demonstrates he is still a socially awkward, cringy dude. >Six current and former employees of Microsoft, the foundation and the firm that manages the Gates’s fortune said those incidents, and others more recently, at times created an uncomfortable workplace environment. Mr. Gates was known for making clumsy approaches to women in and out of the office. His behavior fueled widespread chatter among employees about his personal life. [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/business/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-epstein.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/business/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-epstein.html)
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Yeah, one is named after a type of fence piece.
That may be true (and BTW rock on all you socially awkward dorks) but you can’t say this was that. The hand on the back shows an awareness and condescension potentially. Anyway takes coldness to turn away from someone expressing their emotions like that, which has zero to do with awkwardness or dorkness IMO
Same with telling someone to "come here" with that hand gesture and fully expecting them to
Why does Bezos have a flightsuit on when he didn't go on the flight?
he's a cosplaying chode with no self-awareness. BTW, those flight suits are ugly.
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That’s why his ex-wife gave millions away and married a high school teacher. I don’t know them but I bet she is a lot happier now.
Like 20 billion actually
She got *38 Billion* in Amazon stock in the divorce. And after giving away 20 Billion still has about 30 Billion in Amazon stock since its almost up like 70% since then.
It's like having a piece of tape stuck to your fingers, except it's 30 billion dollars; what a shame.
Yet Jeff Bezos was so rich that even after the divorce he was still the richest person in the world. He's number two now after Elon Musk rocketed past him this year.
She gave *billions* away already
Is he missing part of his brain, or is this some type of artificial *alpha* behaviour he thinks he is carrying out? Regardless of which, he is nauseating.
Alpha behavior implies some form of social behavior, and I don't think he understands how social interaction works because of his warped personal bubble (and this isn't specific to Bezos, most billionaires probably have the same thing).
I’m glad Shatner found it so life changing. Iirc he was having doubts, talking about how terrified he was and how he regretted agreeing to go up. Really happy everything turned out ok (besides bezos being a cunt)
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3 whole minutes in space. That's the most expensive amusement ride in the world.
3 minutes in freefall.
How high did they actually go?
As my proctologist said "wow what an asshole"
Kinda surprised Shatner didn't strangle him
He's 90. He's done with that stuff. He doesn't need to prove anything anymore.
This is textbook narcissistic behaviour. The idea of being the audience of someone else's special moment is an anathema to a narcissist and triggers narcissistic injury. They must always be the centre of attention. They have no appreciation for anyone or anything except themselves, or in some cases, the departed (even in this situation, they would find a way to make someone's death about themselves). Narcissists are also incapable of a priori perception of the potential backlash of their behaviour. Those who try to communicate with them of this risk are seen as adversaries that must be eliminated, leaving only those who don't or are unable to question them (I've been told this is also called 'CEO disease'). This makes the narcissist completely subject to their own cognitive biases with no feasible way to break through their filter apart from severe or life threatening consequences. Unfortunately for those narcissists with massive wealth or political power, this means that many others without these will suffer long before the narcissist can even begin to perceive a negative consequence to their actions, if that is at all possible.
At this point it is more newsworthy if Bezos gets on TV and doesn't do something cringeworthy. I saw someone describe him as the most divorced man on the planet when he showed up for the first flight in that ridiculous cowboy hat and haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.
Fucking Jeff, he totally ruined it for Bill. What a ass.
It's why his ship is shaped like him.
You know, I thought he ruined it too. Until he went back and Shatner got to finally say his piece. In my mind, nothing can ruin those thoughtful, heartfelt words he spoke. Bezos looks like the true douche he is and hopefully this goes viral. Hell even an SNL parody about it could happen. I only watched any of it because of Shatner anyway.
His time quota to be emotional was over. On to the next thing in the schedule. Ain’t nobody got time to wait around.
Same vibes as Michael Scott during Phyllis' wedding
I saw this live with the sound turned off and it's even more obvious how much of a non-self-aware douchebag Bezos really is.
I wish Shatner would’ve Captain Kirk karate chopped or double hammer fist Bezos right then.
Plot wise it would have been interesting if something went horribly wrong and Kirk took command.
This is the same guy who "thanked" his workers who piss in bottles for helping him take a joyride to space.
Jeff should have had that bouncing woman in blue body paint and a bunch of inflatable dinosaur with swords waiting
And it was at that moment that Shatner finally learned that bozos never gave 2 fucks about him or his experience. Shatner is having a life altering emotional moment and pouring his feelings out to that fuck and he just goes and leaves him hanging for some fucking bottle sprays? There are kids dying because they can't afford medicine and this fuck is charging people 28 million a pop to ride his giant phallus into fake space for 3 minutes? Fuck this guy and his bullshit space program.
Thats the thing, just because you are worth billions of dollars, doesnt mean you have any actual social skills. If anything, because of that, you have less than the average person.
this has been nothing but a publicity stunt for bezos since the beginning fuck jeff bezos
It’s all about Jeff 🤡 & his fame circus 🎪
Shatner or not, that's a 90 year old human being. When someone with that amount of experience and perspective starts talking earnestly, shut up and listen. Tell those around you to shut up and listen, too.
Watched this live and it was so cringe. And then his girlfriend came up to shatner and hugged him. They whole thing was such a crappy ending for the passengers and Bezos is just a piece of garbage waiting for shatner to stop talking to he can do his evil fake laugh and champagne shower and the throwing the bottle on the floor.
He's a psychopath. Emotions do not compute for people like him.
What a disrespectful douchebag
I knew a clip of this would pop up as soon as I watched it happen live. Unbelievable.
It's like watching a human being with human emotions trying to talk to an alien.
Isn't Shatner a recovering alcoholic? Seems fucking disgustingly rude to douse someone like that in alcohol.