Jeff Bezos wants to flaunt his grotesque wealth so badly that he’s willing to hold a historic European port city and its working class hostage to do so. Multiple outlets reported earlier this week on the town of Rotterdam as it weighs a controversial option to temporarily dismantle a landmark, low-clearance bridge to allow Bezos’ new $500 million, 471-foot-long, 3-masted superyacht to pass through unencumbered en route to the open sea later this year. But buried within those stories is the little fact that, at this point, Rotterdam essentially has no choice in the matter.
