The Super Rich of Silicon Valley Have a Doomsday Escape Plan

Re:The Super Rich of Silicon Valley Have a Doomsday Escape Plan by ordinaryradical on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @08:25PM (#17923005)

Here’s another way to read this: to theorize about these hypothetical scenarios and how to escape is a way of displacing the fear and sense of responsibility that goes with the rampant inequality they have succeeded by. A nano machine uprising carries a lot less responsibility than an economy exorbitantly tilted toward a lucky few.

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Re:The Super Rich of Silicon Valley Have a Doomsday Escape Plan by gnusci on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @08:38PM (#17923068)

Here "another way to read this: to theorize about these hypothetical scenarios and how to escape", then open business for rich people that will always feel fear from the poor people. Even if it is just poor people. Then you will make money!!!

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Re:The Super Rich of Silicon Valley Have a Doomsday Escape Plan by AlexCoventry on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @08:46PM (#17923111)

To you it looks like a salve to guilt, but to them it's probably just cheap insurance. These plans are selfish and despicable, but they aren't crazy or stupid if they only take 1% of your wealth to maintain, because a massive breakdown in civil order in the next 10 years is quite plausible (though not all that likely from my perspective.)

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