Who files more lawsuits?
Who's more litigious?
Is it Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk?
The more important question is,
who cares?
[LAUGH] >> So
apparently billionaires have
too much time on their hands.
So they're engaging in a genitalia
measuring contest.
And this time it's not
even over how much money they have.
It's over who files more lawsuits.
So the billionaire space race
has actually given way to more
infighting.
During an interview,
SpaceX's Elon Musk took a jab at
Jeff Bezos, right?
For the countless legal fights
he's engaged in.
At that point,
Bezos got super salty about it.
And decided to respond by exposing
the lawsuits that Elon Musk has
filed for through SpaceX.
So here's what Musk had said.
He said, I think he, meaning Bezos,
should put more of his energy
into getting to orbit,
rather than lawsuits.
You cannot sue your way
to the moon, no
matter how good your lawyers are.
At that point, Amazon sent out a 13
page document to Verge,
specifically, detailing all of Musk
and SpaceX's lawsuits.
The list indeed contains a number
of lawsuits filed by SpaceX,
including some dating as far back
as 2004, when Musk was still
literally trying to
get the startup off the ground.
But it also includes more
procedural actions, like times when
SpaceX has filed opinions on how
the government should allocate
certain bands of spectrum for
satellite communications.
Advocacy that has increased as
SpaceX begun building its Starlink
satellite network.
Blah, blah, blah,
I mean that's what they do.
They're both bad guys, that's it,
that's all it is.
>> No, guys, look, so
a couple things.
So you want to get rich enough to
be able to afford your mortgage or
your rent, etc.
Take care of your kids and go on
vacation every once in a while.
But you get this rich,
they're not even having fun.
I mean, look
at how silly this stuff is.
>> It's so dumb.
>> And they're like a couple of
kids who are in a non stop
slap fight.
As I was reading the story, I was
imagining them going like this.
>> [LAUGH] Totally.
>> And so, they're all stressed
out about, yeah, is Bezos's ship
bigger, or is my ship bigger?
>> Totally. >> Right,
whose lawsuit is bigger?
By the way, if you don't know, rich
people sue each other all the time.
But when they sue others,
by the way, it is a very common
form of intimidation And so
all these lawsuits are not
an accident by both guys.
And this is the definition of rich
man's problems.
>> Totally.
>> I have all the money in
the world, and I'm going to space,
and he's going to space.
But his rocket's slightly larger
than mine and I got feelings, so
I'm suing and all this stuff.
And then finally,
if you guys are going to have
a measuring contest, how about you
do it on who pays more taxes?
>> No, by the way, I'm sure they
do have that measuring contest, but
it's not over who
pays more in taxes.
It's who's smarter in paying
the least in taxes.
>> Is screwing over the American
people the most.
>> Exactly, yeah.
>> I'm just asking you to flip it.
And by the way,
you guys have no idea how popular
it would be.
If Bezos came out and said, yeah,
Elon Musk, I just paid $1
billion more than you in taxes.
Everybody would be like,
yes, right?
>> Yeah, right. >> And
Musk is like, yeah,
$2 billion more in taxes.
And people would throw
festivals for you.
But no, my, my, my, mine, I
gotta build more phallic missiles,
pathetic.