My cousin, a few tears younger than me, brought up a very good point today. We are old enough to remember when space races could only be funded by nations, not people.

We live in a nation where “tax the rich,” is offensive to the guy making $15 an hour and wondering why he can’t feed his kids. The same guy who actually believes paying people, like himself, a fair and living wage would bankrupt these putridly weathly men.

We live in a world where there are men with more personal wealth than many nations.

Bezo’s Amazon is nearly, if not already, a trillion dollar company, and they pay almost no taxes—and the idiots who run my town decide he needed $20 million more to build his warehouse here, but that’s just an aside. There have always been imbeciles in office. This Uber-rich stuff is new…

Special note to my friend Tommy who is self-employed, drives a ‘97 F-150, and crawls around on his 62 year old knees installing flooring and thinking he’s a capitalist. Tommy, bro, you ain’t a capitalist. You are what capitalists laugh at while you crawl around on your 62 year olds knees and install the flooring in their mansions.