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

Re:Why Silicon Valley Billionaires Are Prepping for the Apoc... by sidlls on Saturday January 18, 2020 @08:19PM (#22088674)

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If liberal democracies fall it won't be because they've been replaced by well-functioning corporate city-states; it will be because we've gone Mad Max.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.

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Re:Why Silicon Valley Billionaires Are Prepping for the Apoc... by mthom on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @09:59AM (#22107448)

> 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.

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