Jeff Bezos' Big Beautiful Rocket and the All-Female Crew (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_820)
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Summary
The future is female, Jesse. Now little girls can suddenly aspire to be the next Copernicus, Galileo, and Einstein. Without those ladies, without Katy Perry, they would have been locked out of astrophysics. But now they can dare to dream.
Transcript
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Evolutionary Behavioral Scientist and Northwood University Global Ambassador, Gad Saad, is here.
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They say mission accomplished. What was the mission?
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Now little girls can suddenly aspire to be the next Copernicus, Galileo, and Einstein.
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Without those ladies, without Katy Perry, they would have been locked out of astrophysics,
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But in all seriousness, this type of lavish, conspicuous spending is something that we've seen since time immemorial, right?
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The Romans used to have lavish banquets and feasts while the peasants were starving, right?
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A billionaire spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a painting that a three-day-old pigeon could do,
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but look how powerful I must be to be able to waste $150 million on a painting that's just made up of one red line.
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So I think this probably falls within that conspicuous pattern of spending.
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So this is about Bezos. Look what I can do with my rockets. I'm giving the ladies a little ride. And look at me now.
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Look at that big, phallic-shaped rocket. I must be top dog. I must be very wealthy to be able to afford this space tourism.
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It's all costly signaling, Jesse. I covered this in all of my books.
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Okay. And women are jealous. You heard that one woman on the morning show, she was angry that they went on the joyride.
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Right. You shouldn't call it joyride. You should call them astronauts just for being on the joyride.
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So, for example, when I go to watch Mike Tyson in a boxing match, I become a world heavyweight contender because I was there in the arena.
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All right. Very interesting. We'll see what Elon does next. You know, boys will be boys.