The people in this story are still counting on quite a bit of society to exist to ferry them to their fancy secure locations.
Which, to be sure, isn't unrealistic. Just interesting.
You don't have to look far in history to see examples of this. 3rd Reich Germany kept functioning well past the point where it should seemingly have collapsed. Even as the Red Army were shelling Berlin, there were low-level people continuing their work when the sensible thing to do would surely have been to get their family and flee.
More recently, the Greek financial crisis put a major strain on institutions that were weak to begin with, but there was no rioting or major breakdown of order.
I think modern, Western societies are surprisingly resistant to a breakdown in order, simply because most people have never experienced anything other than order. As a result, acting in an anarchic, non-system way simply isn't something that would occur to them. Even in the face of an existential crisis, they would "keep calm and carry on", because they can't imagine doing anything else.
I think if there's going to be any place that a bit of society is left existing after apocalypse will be somewhere in the US, perhaps much closer to where those billionaires reside than they think (so there's no need to run to New Zealand).
I think the better investment would be to literally convert some of your 'paper' wealth to physical means of production of basic goods.
centi- means 1/100. So those are people whose net work is about 10k.
The author probably meant hecto-millionaires. Or deci-billionaires.
Heh, premium words. What good is a dictionary that only lists the common words? We know what those ones mean...
After piercing the paywall, I can see they've wrong. Centa, centi. Not the same.
And they charge for that?
I would become his apprentice and have him teach me everything he know. What else would you have to do while you're in hiding?
If you really want this to work, you better learn to be a pilot and a mechanic now, or preferably have close family members that you like who have those skills.
Plus the risk of leaks resulting in additional people or those wishing to take your plane.
When you arrive who is feeding, housing, and this large number of people?
This is a great point and I think we can even add more to it: Will your pilot even wait for you? I guess he/she will just put his/her family on your plane and take off without you!