Sorry, billionaire doomsday preppers your wealth wont save you

[sheshe2]

With Donald Trump’s election and the rising perils of war, climate upheaval, accelerating inequality, and civil unrest, some of the richest people in the United States are making escape plans.

In a recent New Yorker article, “Doomsday Prep for the Super Rich,” Evan Osnos writes that “even financiers who supported Trump for president … have been unnerved at the ways his insurgent campaign seems to have hastened a collapse of respect for established institutions.”

Osnos recently visited survivalist condos being built in former missile silos in Kansas and interviewed Silicon Valley billionaires and centimillionaires who are hedging against future social breakdown by investing in “bug out” escape homes in remote corners of the world.

This idea of privatized survival is extremely limited. In the face of growing inequalities and ecological crisis, the wealthy will not be able to build a wall high enough or a silo deep enough.

Why? Two simple, interconnected reasons, one ecological and the other economic:

1. There is no Planet B.

2. Your wealth won’t save you.

Read More: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/sorry-billionaire-doomsday-preppers-your-wealth-wont-save-you/

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Good read and so true...they can't eat, drink or breathe their money.

[angstlessk]

1. Oh, and let's not forget inbreeding!

Pathological sociopaths breeding with psychopaths...how's that gonna work?

[sheshe2]

2. Yikes!

[Hortensis]

3. There are better reasons, and they have to do with

personality and what it takes to create stable societies. The sorts of people who tend to gather in these places would not be able to do that.

Dystopian fiction is full of hard-core conservative "survivalists" who imagine that separating themselves from others, and particularly from functioning societal systems, would be how to survive. Some of these fictional characters are obviously sociopathic (yes, courtesy of Kindle I have read at least part of a number of them before deleting them), murdering various people in supposed self protection in the first week or so of disaster, but their authors, and admiring readers, clearly don't recognize that.

Another version is where someone, usually strongly authoritarian, sets up a survival community where a narrow selection of typically very conservative and ignorant people, who are quick to abandon civilization to live in this isolated little society under a rigid authoritarian leadership, would have to depend on each other for survival. Umhm.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. Oh yeah?!? What about gold?!?

Gold is the answer. Imagine going to a postapocalyptic market with a pocketful of krugerrands. At best, you would find that the cost of a rat carcass is one ounce of gold. At worst, you get followed back to your hidey-hole to see what else you might be hoarding.

[sheshe2]

5. "At best, you would find that the cost of a rat carcass is one ounce of gold".

So...they will be eating their own then and paying for it!!!

[Blue_Tires]

6. Why the need to prep? I thought America was going to be great again or something?

[sheshe2]

7. It is possible that they took of their rose colored glasses....

and finally saw the monster they created.