{"id":3333,"date":"2021-11-06T10:11:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T14:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2021-11-06T10:11:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T14:11:49","slug":"for-all-pigkind-no-2-to-oligarchy-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3333","title":{"rendered":"For All Pigkind no.2: To Oligarchy, And Beyond!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/forallpigkind02\/forallpigkind02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/forallpigkind02\/forallpigkind02_650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, Jeff Bezos thinks he can tug at my old Boomer heartstrings<\/strong> by sending up 90 year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2021\/10\/13\/blue-origin-sends-william-shatner-to-the-final-frontier\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Shatner (and his toupee)<\/a> on Blue Origin&#8217;s latest suborbital joyride, while continuing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lioness.co\/post\/bezos-wants-to-create-a-better-future-in-space-his-company-blue-origin-is-stuck-in-a-toxic-past\" target=\"_blank\">shit on his workers<\/a> and dodge taxes. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has opened new vistas in whiny excuses for not paying taxes on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/giacomotognini\/2021\/10\/29\/these-billionaires-might-have-just-dodged-a-333-billion-tax-bullet-thanks-to-revised-tax-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\">obscene wealth<\/a> by puking up <a href=\"https:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/news\/stocks\/elon-musk-billionaire-tax-mars-2021-10?op=1\" target=\"_blank\">a bunch of balloon juice<\/a> about Mars and &#8220;the light of consciousness&#8221;. Nice try, guys \u2014 but, no. Also a big &#8220;no&#8221; to these guys at the Space Review trying to spin it as an important insight into the <a href=\"https:\/\/thespacereview.com\/article\/4269\/1\" target=\"_blank\">effects of microgravity on old rich and famous people.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My plan is to use the money to get humanity to Mars and preserve the light of consciousness<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1453590715267788803?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And elsewhere in the Space Review, one of their regulars can&#8217;t shut up about the <a href=\"https:\/\/thespacereview.com\/article\/4266\/1\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;normalization of space tourism&#8221;<\/a> \u2014 for anyone who&#8217;s so goddamn rich they have the price of a long weekend at the ISS lying around under their sofa cushions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;11 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/forallpigkind02\/forallpigkind02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.1 mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Jeff Bezos thinks he can tug at my old Boomer heartstrings by sending up 90 year-old William Shatner (and his toupee) on Blue Origin&#8217;s latest suborbital joyride, while continuing to shit on his workers and dodge taxes. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has opened new vistas in whiny excuses for not paying taxes on his obscene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,74,20,10,229],"tags":[922,1176,976,1222,1177,1223],"class_list":["post-3333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-environment","category-health-care","category-media","category-space","tag-bezos","tag-blue-origin","tag-musk","tag-shatner","tag-spacex","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3337,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}