Alien Humans

Recently, I read again about a government report about aliens from outer space and UFOs about to come out. Whether they exist or have been in contact with us here on earth is an ongoing debate. Today I was reading about Jeff Bezos and his trying to market his 300-million-dollar yacht, and I felt as if I was reading about an alien earth dweller. He seems as alien to me as someone from outer space though he looks very much like people I know.

Who has a boat worth three hundred million that does not fit into many ports? Who sails around the world with a 36-member crew in a boat with a glass bottom pool, three saunas, and heaven knows what else that isn’t a cruise ship? It seems like a spaceship to me owned by an alien. The only boar that floats on water in my world, is my son’s kayak that is standing up in my garage

But let me come clean. My father once owned an eighteen-foot yacht with a friend (I am not sure how long it was, and he is gone now so I can’t ask him). It was big enough that he needed my brother to drive, I mean pilot it. It was really a bother to own, and we did not take it out often He finally sold it. My father preferred paddling around in a rowboat that he could manage himself. Dad was comfortably middle-class; he had some money but not billions. That still leaves a $300,000,000 yacht as foreign to me, as foreign as something from outer space.

Jeff Bezos is only one of a handful of billionaires who seem to own half the world. I think about Bezos and Amazon and the thousands of people it employs. Their livelihood and to some extent, their well-being is in his hands. He is a kind of god. Well, not the kind of god I believe in. He is not very considerate with his employees to put it mildly. The God I believe in was incarnate in Jesus whose lifestyle was quite normal financially. No high flying for him. It is said that he was often out in ordinary fishing boats. And he had great love for common even marginal people.

Seriously, it is hard to think of what Bezos and his peers and I have in common. I am not jealous of his lifestyle because I cannot even imagine it or his state of mind, or how he sees himself. Of course, he has a beautiful wife. I cannot identify with her wither. Is she just along for the ride? Maybe not. But she seems alien too. Maybe a day in their world would help me understand but I would feel very out of my element there. Like a fish out of water. Though, when not in public view, their daily life could be quite ordinary too. But they probably have servants.

I think there are two classes of people in this world, the aliens beyond rich and the rest of us earthling, some of whom are poor, most of whom are a job away from poverty. The rich beyond rich seem to live in their own orbit around the sun and they stick together. Sometimes someone is soaring with them who does not quite belong.

At one point in time, Epstein, the sex addicted child trafficker seemed to travel with them. But he ended up in prison and is dead. But his memory lingers and his days as part of the billionaire crowd remain mostly protected from view.

There are also some billionaires who seem to come down to earth in a good way. They apologize for wrongs committed, they pledge to serve the common good, they care about the environment. They just plain care about and seem to be related to the rest of us. They have an earthling’s soul.

I am just thinking aloud in writing. I really do not identify with these multi-billionaires at all. Aliens to me. In fact, as I see it, aliens to any human enterprise though their wealth enables them to manipulate our political system, disrupting our democracy.

Aliens except for one thing that brings them back to earth and bridges the chasm between them and the rest of us earthings. We all have human bodies and are going to die. And then it will all be gone for any of us. Property will be passed on to heirs. But they themselves will be gone. Like they say, you can’t take it with you. As Ted Turner, a billionaire who died recently said, “I never owned anything, I was just borrowing it for a while. So, we will all be equal someday, in the same boat as they say. Then the real God’s love will hold us. The one who was once one of us, all of us.

In the meantime, elite billionaires could be dangerous from their perch on high. We could try to close the gap between the alien rich and the rest of us by reigning in some of their power. Bringing them back to earth could be doing them a favor.