Why Silicon Valley Billionaires Are Prepping for the Apocalypse in New Zealand

theguardian.com

7 points·mark_l_watson··5 comments

I'm not sure what's more amusing/depressing: that these people believe any shift on the order of magnitude the book described in the article predicts will permit continued functioning of society in a way that supports these individuals' wealth, or that these individuals believe that their wealth puts them in a "cognitive elite."

If liberal democracies fall it won't be because they've been replaced by well-functioning corporate city-states; it will be because we've gone Mad Max. And then no amount of bitcoin or "private" land in New Zealand will protect these people.

> I'm not sure what's more amusing/depressing: that these people believe any shift on the order of magnitude the book described in the article predicts will permit continued functioning of society in a way that supports these individuals' wealth, or that these individuals believe that their wealth puts them in a "cognitive elite."

It's a tautology of modern western culture that if you're rich, you must be smart, so.. yes.

Not sure I would want to rely on New Zealand to be safe, Natural disasters will take you out well before any nuclear or zombie apocalypse. Wanaka is on the alpine fault line and overdue the big one.

Long overdue in geological terms is pretty meaningless compared to a human lifetime.

I liked this article. I read the book mentioned in the article, “The Sovereign Individual” about 20 years ago and it changed the way I looked at the world.

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