The Takeaway — Collapse Isn’t a Flaw, It’s the Plan
The rich are not scrambling to prevent collapse. They welcome it — because they know they’ll be the only ones left standing. While the rest of us are told to “sacrifice” and “tighten our belts,” billionaires are building bunkers, buying private islands, and hoarding resources for the dystopia they see coming.
Douglas Rushkoff has written about the apocalypse bunkers the rich are building, and about how their planning does not account for how to control their private security once money means nothing.
The wealthy are not smart enough to plan the collapse, the handful who are smart enough to plan for it can’t figure out how to make it more than a few months.
Here is an article about his book from 2022. I think I have read this in the past, but I coduln’t remember his name. What stuck to me was this:
Yeah.
Better than worrying about these cheesedicks, build mutual aid networks with friends and neighbors and coworkers. We’ll all need help at some point in the near future.
To dump tons of dirt on bunker doors?
AND plant crops in the dirt after.
Beautiful. We won’t eat the rich, but they’ll fertilize our crops.
I’ve always wondered about that. If society is collapsing, money has no value. The people you hired to help you are going to turn on you and take everything.
Money is worthless, but things like food, fuel, land and guns are worth something. The means to make food, also. Having a private militia that you pay in food is no different to paying them in money after collapse. They could rebel, but of course, if you kill the first person to rebel, the others have a choice. Try again, or keep getting food.
The wealthy are the cause of it. Cancer ain’t gonna get to curing cancer…