Hello and welcome to the expendable men episode of sleep money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Amon of Axios.

Stacey Marie Ishmael is here loving the idea of expendable men.

Delighted.

Emily Peck is here of Fundrise, and you kind of like the idea too, right?

You kind of think that we should be throwing billionaires into space because

we can afford to lose a few of them. 100%. And I'll explain it to you in just a minute, Felix.

So we're going to talk about billionaires in space and how expendable they are. We are going to

talk about the Texas Two-Step, the way that Johnson Johnson might be trying to avoid some of

its tort liabilities. It's more interesting than it sounds, honestly.

We have a great conversation about work, expenses, meetings, all of that kind of stuff. And is it racist to ask people to put expenses on their personal cards and then get it reimbursed from the company.

Spoiler alert, yes, it is.

We have a Slate Plus segment on private markets,

basically where people can buy and sell shares in private companies.

It's all coming up on Slate Money.

So, Emily, this was the week where everyone on Twitter competed to come up with the rudest thing

they could think of to say about Jeff Bezos and his 11-minute ride into space. And in true

slate style, you're going to take the contrarian point of view here and say it's

actually not that bad, even though his spaceship really did look like a penis.

Yeah, his spaceship looked like a penis.

He had a cowboy hat on.

Well, Jeff Bezos went and touched space.

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