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World's Third Richest Man Sells Private Jet Because He's Afraid of Twitter
World's Third Richest Man Sells Private Jet Because He's Afraid of Twitter-July 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:13:51

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If you’re one of the richest human beings ever to walk this Earth, chances are you’re pretty insulated from the rest of the world. You don’t really need to concern yourself with the opinions of others, to even consider the whims of the proles. At least, that’s how things were — before came around, giving the unwashed masses unfettered access to your billionaire psyche.

Now, you can’t avoid them. They’re out there, talking about you, and doing it so publicly that you can’t help but overhear — or, over-read. Worse than that, they’re taking you to task: tracking your flights, measuring each and every unit of CO2 emitted by your globe-hopping escapades. What’s a poor, put-upon titan of industry to do? Well, if you’re Bernard Arnault, it seems the answer is to just .

No, Mister Bond, I expect you to die.

Elon Musk isn’t the only billionaire whose by teens, apparently. Bernard Arnault, fashion magnate and third-richest person in the world, also had a and tabulating his carbon emissions. Arnault, apparently, had concerns for his privacy — and sold his jet to keep is secrets.

There’s no word as to just what Arnault wants to hide by obfuscating his movements like this, so we can only speculate as to what a man with billions at his disposal does while hiding away from prying eyes. Building ? It’s anyone’s guess.

Arnault still intends to take private jets around, they just won’t be entirely private to him. Maybe there’s a timeshare situation involved, between him and the other Bond villains.

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