The Country That Wants to ‘Be Average’ vs. Jeff Bezos and His $500M Yacht

But IMO he's probably conflicted about the issues here and interpreting them deeply, using his non-business, personal-life toolset. The same toolset that gets him upset about critique in general. Bzzt.

This won't end well for his personal valuation of himself, or his public image, if he doesn't openly start to reconcile the need for a private, self-care yacht-world with the public, social-care world.

That won't be easy despite how it always looks to everyone from the outside, but it's also not like someone trying it out can be faulted much for trying. His default covert social contact is something akin to "I leak money into your world by acting like a machine all day, then when I'm tired I buy things I like, and you ignore my excesses, which are only human, because I'm not exactly lazy."

Much of the public disagrees that someone with so much leverage (built on various layers of infrastructure and goodwill) is "just" a human anymore, and there are good reasons to take that viewpoint seriously.

In his shoes I'd immediately start making fun of myself and learn to expose some of the complexity of that inner social contract for what it should be, or could be: A useful social heritage experiment in changing the traditional top hat model of billionaire life. A blue origin for living a life that's inwardly supportive of self and also outwardly supportive of humankind's social development and evolution.

Be that kind of astronaut traveling into the metaphorical unknown, and people will take your spirit with them into the spatial unknown for centuries to come.

Or, I guess, be a little creative and get your damn yacht problem fixed fast...

PS: Before you mock me, I didn’t bother researching about the specs of the Yacht such as the weight.