Article 5JYPK In space, nobody can hear Jeff Bezos. So can Richard Branson go too? | Marina Hyde

In space, nobody can hear Jeff Bezos. So can Richard Branson go too? | Marina Hyde

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News that the Amazon overlord is about to jet off has got the Virgin boss clamouring to get there first. You can do it, Richard!

It's famously impossible to take a bathroom break during a rocket launch, meaning Jeff Bezos will soon experience what it's like to be one of his warehouse workers. Or, as the Amazon boss put it last week: To see the Earth from space ... changes your relationship with humanity." That's hugely encouraging. I feel like we're just one successful interstellar wormhole mission to a distant galaxy away from allowing employees to unionise.

Related: The tech billionaire space race: who is Jeff Bezos up against?

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