The best that Bezos’ money can buy: A wedding for the ages in timeless Venice
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This wedding represents exactly what's wrong with modern Venice -— billionaires treating the entire city like their private playground while locals struggle with housing costs and overtourism. The 90 private jets alone show the environmental hypocrisy of the ultra-wealthy. Venice needs affordable housing and services for residents, not more spectacles for oligarchs.
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There is a 4% chance that Jeff Bezos will hold major political office in the United States before February 2033, according to the Metaculus prediction community.