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July 21, 2021
Timothy Noah
Jeff Bezos, Space Marxist?
The Amazon founder revived the theory of surplus value.
July 9, 2021
Jacob Silverman
The Billionaire Space Race Is a Tragically Wasteful Ego Contest
Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk are spending billions to go to space, using money and resources that belong to the people.
December 3, 2020
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Clive Thompson
Monetizing the Final Frontier
The strange new push for space privatization
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