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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is rich and not afraid to show it. In July, the world’s second-richest person blasted out to space in his own spaceship. Come 2022, he looks set to conquer the seas on the world’s biggest sailing yacht. Most superyachts are outfitted with the highest-quality timber: teak from one of the world’s most troubled countries, Myanmar. The U.N. recently condemned the killing and burning of 11 people including minors by the military junta that now runs the country. It’s not clear whether Bezos’s yacht, dubbed the Y721, uses Myanmar teak, but Oceanco, the company reportedly mak…