I think the issue is that people may not know Bezos personally, but they do know the issues with how his Amazon employees are treated for example, or how he dodges income taxes. They also know that his rocket company Blue Origin received billions of subsidies from the government. So it's not like he's financing this little space trip out of his own pocket. Also, from the way he presents it, the only reason for this trip is for his own personal satisfaction.
How are these people being treated? How do you know? I certainly don't know, but coming from the food industry there doesn't seem to be much difference and it sounds to me people are complaining about how much they don't like the work rather than issues specifically with JB. JB is so far removed from the employees working at these where houses he likely doesn't know a single warehouse worker's name. That's doesn't mean he's not responsible for the wellbeing of Amazon employees, but that doesn't mean he's specifically at fault for the conditions at every single warehouse. That being said warehouse work isn't something I'd ever want to do it's tough work that involves doing manual labour all day with a break for lunch and two 15 minute breaks only.
What does income taxes have to do with anything? Is JB being investigated for tax fraud or is the media creating misplaced outrage over someone, probably, following US Tax laws written by rich people for super rich people
Here is the headline for an article about $10b going to JB:
"SENATE PREPARING $10 BILLION BAILOUT FUND FOR JEFF BEZOS SPACE FIRM"
But the article says: The order would come through the Endless Frontier Act, a bill to beef up resources for science and technology research that’s being debated on the Senate floor this week. An amendment was added to that legislation by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., to hand over $10 billion to NASA..." Where is the bailout? This article is based on speculation.
I found the document:
https://spacepolicyonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Senate-NASA-auth-amendment-May-12-2021.pdf
And this is the section the media is calling a bailout:
"PART II—HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT AND
2 EXPLORATION
3 SEC. 614. COMPETITIVENESS WITHIN THE HUMAN LANDING
4 SYSTEM PROGRAM.
5 (a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con
6 gress that—
7 (1) advances in space technology and space ex
8 ploration capabilities ensure the long-term techno
9 logical preeminence, economic competitiveness,
10 STEM workforce development, and national security
11 of the United States;
12 (2) the development of technologies that enable
13 human exploration of the lunar surface and other ce
14 lestial bodies is critical to the space industrial base
15 of the United States;
16 (3) commercial entities in the United States
17 have made significant investment and progress to
18 ward the development of human-class lunar landers;
19 (4) NASA developed the Artemis program—
20 (A) to fulfill the goal of landing United
21 States astronauts, including the first woman
22 and the next man, on the Moon; and
23 (B) to collaborate with commercial and
24 international partners to establish sustainable
25 lunar exploration by 2028;15MCC21473 RPP S.L.C.
1 (5) in carrying out the Artemis program, the
2 Administrator should ensure that the entire Artemis
3 program is inclusive and representative of all people
4 of the United States, including women and minori
5 ties; and
6 (6) maintaining multiple technically-credible
7 providers within NASA commercial programs is a
8 best practice that reduces programmatic risk.
9 (b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It shall be the policy
10 of the United States—
11 (1) to bolster the domestic space technology in
12 dustrial base, using existing tools and authorities,
13 particularly in areas central to competition between
14 the United States and the People’s Republic of
15 China; and
16 (2) to mitigate threats and minimize challenges
17 to the superiority of the United States in space tech
18 nology, including lunar infrastructure and lander ca
19 pabilities.
20 (c) HUMAN LANDING SYSTEM PROGRAM.—
21 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after
22 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Adminis
23 trator shall maintain competitiveness within the
24 human landing system program by funding design,
16 MCC21473 RPP S.L.C.
1 development, testing, and evaluation for not fewer
2 than 2 entities
3 (2) REQUIREMENTS.—In carrying out the
4 human landing system program referred to in para
5 graph (1), the Administrator shall, to the extent
6 practicable—
7 (A) encourage reusability and sustain
8 ability of systems developed;
9 (B) offer existing capabilities and assets of
10 NASA centers to support such partnerships;
11 and
12 (C) seek to foster a robust and diverse
13 space technology industrial base.
14 (3) BRIEFING.—Not later than 60 days after
15 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Adminis
16 trator shall provide to the appropriate committees of
17 Congress a briefing on the implementation of para
18 graph (1).
19 (4) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—In
20 addition to amounts otherwise appropriated for the
21 Artemis program, for fiscal years 2021 through
22 2026, there is authorized to be appropriated not less
23 than $10,032,000,000 to NASA to carry out the
24 human landing system program.