Billionaires tend to be on the receiving end of a lot of bizarre requests from fans, but a recent petition circulating about Amazon founder Jeff Bezos threatens to proverbially take the cake.
A change.org petition is urging the multi-billionaire to purchase the legendary Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum in Paris, France, and consume it.
Not consume it like "buy it," consume it, like, "eat it."
A petition is circulating for Jeff Bezos to buy and then eat The Mona Lisa! I think I'm about to come out of petition retirement! Hope this works out better than the Kony 2012 one I signed.— Warren Kluck (@Warren Kluck) 1623671346
We never knew that we needed to know the answer to this, but now we NEED TO KNOW— JJR Acoustics :: 10th Anniversary Week 3 :: Blog (@JJR Acoustics :: 10th Anniversary Week 3 :: Blog) 1623784794
@TheOnion , you posted on the wrong account— Jerry Chang (@Jerry Chang) 1623785349
u guys ok?— Hard Money (@Hard Money) 1623784863
What kind of dumbass article is this— SabConscious\u00a9\ufe0f (@SabConscious\u00a9\ufe0f) 1623785417
The petition does not offer more of an explanation than this:
"Nobody has eaten the Mona Lisa and we feel jeff bezos needs to take a stand and make this happen."
Just a few more signatures needed on the petition to make Jeff Bezos buy and eat the Mona Lisahttps://www.change.org/p/reddit-we-want-jeff-bezos-to-buy-and-eat-the-mona-lisa\u00a0\u2026— EL BARTO ANTI-WORK (@EL BARTO ANTI-WORK) 1623708471
whenever your hope in humanity is restoring, just remember: there's a petition for Jeff Bezos to eat the Mona Lisa \n(yes, it's real)pic.twitter.com/RQsjMJ74tH— Guidez (@Guidez) 1623766457
Here I was hoping we were just going to blow up the moon.https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/petition-urging-jeff-bezos-to-buy-and-eat-the-mona-lisa-gains-hundreds-of-signatures\u00a0\u2026— Kate Fazzini (@Kate Fazzini) 1623677411
pretty sure if this petition gets 156 more signatures the louvre is required to sell the mona lisa to jeff bezos (so he can eat it) https://www.change.org/p/reddit-we-want-jeff-bezos-to-buy-and-eat-the-mona-lisa?redirect=false\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/bjDMjNN194— Claire McNear (@Claire McNear) 1623704738
Tired: Jeff Bezos should go to space.\n\nWired: Jeff Bezos should buy the Mona Lisa and eat it.pic.twitter.com/KffaYVo3wR— The Artist Formerly Known as @DanWeiner (@The Artist Formerly Known as @DanWeiner) 1623628955
Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is currently valued somewhere in the neighborhood of £42 billion, which is $59.2 billion or €48.8 billion.
Bezos' net worth is somewhere around $193.4 billion so he would be able to purchase it for less than half of his total amassed fortune. He has also been known to fork over gratuitous sums of money for strange purchases, spending about $41 million on a 500 ft tall clock that ticks once a year and is powered by the day and night thermal cycles.
I tired this once got arrested and causes me to loose custody of my son but when Jeff bezos does it is okhttps://twitter.com/forbes/status/1404881086337978374\u00a0\u2026— John W. Rich (fat tech exec) (@John W. Rich (fat tech exec)) 1623788234
This is what rich people think about in their spare timehttps://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1404881086337978374\u00a0\u2026— Sterling Jones (@Sterling Jones) 1623785706
Very crucial information! Thank you Forbes!https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1404881086337978374\u00a0\u2026— Sir Larzar Eyes (PCIF) (@Sir Larzar Eyes (PCIF)) 1623785298
This parody news account is hilarioushttps://twitter.com/forbes/status/1404881086337978374\u00a0\u2026— Schlongberg Sachs\u2122\ufe0f (@Schlongberg Sachs\u2122\ufe0f) 1623785064
https://twitter.com/forbes/status/1404881086337978374\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/baCJEnatdP— Milwaukee Bucks SZN (@Milwaukee Bucks SZN) 1623784822
Bezos himself has obviously not commented on this petition, as it has a relatively small amount of signatures, but this could become a popular alternative for him should the progressive "Eat The Rich" moniker become less of an idiom and more a reality.
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