Billionaire Jeff Bezos thanked every Amazon employee and customer for ‘paying’ for his space trip but it wasn’t taken well by many.

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The Amazon founder, who stepped down as CEO on July 5, expressed his ‘gratitude’ with good intentions but the result turned out to be just the opposite.

Critics have been regularly pointing out that the working environment at Amazon warehouses was unsafe, the employees there were not given adequate breaks, and often underpaid.

DemCast USA Executive Director Nick Knudsen said that 'tone-deaf' cannot really describe Bezos' thanks while adding that Amazon workers, whose unions were barred from formation, subsidised this space trip.

Tone deaf doesn’t begin to describe this @JeffBezos quote.

I’m sure your workers who get blocked from unionizing at every turn are just giddy with excitement about your neato field trip to outer space that they subsidized. https://t.co/pmgCUIp7kp— Nick Knudsen