Bill Gates Criticizes the Billionaires’ Space Race

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, has recently criticized the ‘space race’ between billionaires.

Noting that Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos are in a race for space travel, Bill Gates said, “Space? We have a lot of work to do here in the world,” he criticized.

The priority is not space, but Earth

Bill Gates, one of the most influential and wealthy people in the world, during an interview with the famous showman James Corden, made statements about the inter-billionaire space race, which has been heating up recently.

When asked what Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos think about their interest and investments in space, he said, “I don’t know about this. I’m obsessed with things like malaria and HIV and getting rid of these diseases,” Gates replied, saying that the priority is Earth, not space. “Space? We have a lot of work to do here in the world,” he said.

Interviewing Gates’ response, Corden said it was “the classiest insult” he’d ever heard, and humorously thanked Gates for “being the only billionaire currently not trying to escape Earth in a spaceship.”

Holding the title of being the fifth richest person in the world for now, Gates does not hesitate to state the importance and interest he has given to public health for many years at every opportunity. The Gates Foundation, which he co-chairs with his recently divorced ex-wife Melinda Gates, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure the equality of the COVID-19 vaccine worldwide, in addition to its work on HIV and Malaria.

Space race madness of billionaires

Elon Musk’s company SpaceX sent 4 civilian “amateur astronauts” to space orbit on September 16, the last time, and the capsule launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, went up to an altitude of about 575 kilometers.

The spacecraft developed by Blue Origin, the company of Jeff Bezos, the founder and former CEO of Amazon, traveled to space on July 20, at an altitude of 106 kilometers.

The spacecraft developed by Virgin Galactic, the company of another billionaire, British businessman Sir Richard Branson, went 100 kilometers away from the point accepted as the starting point of space on July 11th.