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HEADLINE: Survival of The Richest
PUBLISHER: Medium
COMMENT: If you want to know where the world is really going, pay attention to what rich people are doing because they have a view of the bigger picture, and they know information ordinary people don’t know about, and that mainstream media takes too long to deliver. This is one of those things that proves that highly successful people have enough evidence to believe that something extremely chaotic is coming our way. They’re not wrong, chaos is surely coming (if you read most Market Mastery cards you’ll notice the same thing). But this is what many of them believe: “The book’s 400-odd pages of near-hysterical orotundity can roughly be broken down into the following sequence of propositions: 1) The democratic nation-state basically operates like a criminal cartel, forcing honest citizens to surrender large portions of their wealth to pay for stuff like roads and hospitals and schools. 2) The rise of the internet, and the advent of cryptocurrencies, will make it impossible for governments to intervene in private transactions and to tax incomes, thereby liberating individuals from the political protection racket of democracy. 3) The state will consequently become obsolete as a political entity. 4) Out of this wreckage will emerge a new global dispensation, in which a “cognitive elite” will rise to power and influence, as a class of sovereign individuals “commanding vastly greater resources” who will no longer be subject to the power of nation-states and will redesign governments to suit their ends. This was the first I’d heard since coming here of an actual bunker being built. From the point of view of the modern apocalypticist, the whole appeal of the country – its remoteness and stability, its abundant clean water, its vast and lovely reaches of unpeopled land – was that it was itself a kind of reinforced geopolitical shelter, way down there at the bottom of the world. He himself had sold land to one very wealthy American client who had called him on the night of the presidential election. ‘This guy couldn’t believe what was happening. He wanted to secure something right away.'” – SOURCE: The Guardian – Why Silicon Valley Billionaires are preparing for the Apocalypse in New Zealand. There’s some truth to that. Some. However, the real answer lies in The Book of Daniel, The Book of Isaiah, some pieces of The Gospels, The Book of Revelations and Jesus Prophecies. Practically all this money and effort will render useless, for several reasons and the other side is already explicitly mocking you in your face (!). Due to a lack of spiritual knowledge, even the rich are lost.

UPDATE – February 16, 2019: This is ANOTHER MUST-READ I found while gathering additional evidence while writing The Global Financial Crisis Manifesto: “He is less focussed on a specific threat—a quake on the San Andreas, a pandemic, a dirty bomb—than he is on the aftermath, “the temporary collapse of our government and structures,” as he puts it. ‘I own a couple of motorcycles. I have a bunch of guns and ammo. Food. I figure that, with that, I can hole up in my house for some amount of time.’……………A forty-year-old former Facebook product manager living in San Francisco, bought five wooded acres on an island in the Pacific Northwest and brought in generators, solar panels, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. ‘When society loses a healthy founding myth, it descends into chaos’ he told me. The author of ‘Chaos Monkeys’ an acerbic Silicon Valley memoir, García Martínez wanted a refuge that would be far from cities but not entirely isolated. ‘All these dudes think that one guy alone could somehow withstand the roving mob’ he said. ‘No, you’re going to need to form a local militia. You just need so many things to actually ride out the apocalypse.'”……………‘I think people who are particularly attuned to the levers by which society actually works understand that we are skating on really thin cultural ice right now.’……………One member, the head of an investment firm, told me, ‘I keep a helicopter gassed up all the time, and I have an underground bunker with an air-filtration system.’ He said that his preparations probably put him at the “extreme” end among his peers. But he added, ‘A lot of my friends do the guns and the motorcycles and the gold coins. That’s not too rare anymore.’……………Long before the financial crisis became front-page news, early signs appeared in user comments on Reddit. ‘People were starting to whisper about mortgages. They were worried about student debt. They were worried about debt in general.'”……………Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and a prominent investor, recalls telling a friend that he was thinking of visiting New Zealand. “Oh, are you going to get apocalypse insurance?” the friend asked. “I’m, like, Huh?” Hoffman told me. New Zealand, he discovered, is a favored refuge in the event of a cataclysm. Hoffman said, “Saying you’re ‘buying a house in New Zealand’ is kind of a wink, wink, say no more. Once you’ve done the Masonic handshake, they’ll be, like, ‘Oh, you know, I have a broker who sells old ICBM silos, and they’re nuclear-hardened, and they kind of look like they would be interesting to live in.’ ”……………He noted the vulnerabilities exposed by the Russian cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee, and also by a large-scale hack on October 21st, which disrupted the Internet in North America and Western Europe. “Our food supply is dependent on G.P.S., logistics, and weather forecasting,” he said, “and those systems are generally dependent on the Internet, and the Internet is dependent on D.N.S.”—the system that manages domain names. “Go risk factor by risk factor by risk factor, acknowledging that there are many you don’t even know about…………….I could see the outline of a vast concrete dome, with a metal blast door partly ajar. I was greeted by Larry Hall, the C.E.O. of the Survival Condo Project, a fifteen-story luxury apartment complex built in an underground Atlas missile silo. The facility housed a nuclear warhead from 1961 to 1965, when it was decommissioned. At a site conceived for the Soviet nuclear threat, Hall has erected a defense against the fears of a new era. “It’s true relaxation for the ultra-wealthy,” he said. “They can come out here, they know there are armed guards outside. The kids can run around.”……………Some survivalists disparage Hall for creating an exclusive refuge for the wealthy and have threatened to seize his bunker in a crisis. Hall waved away this possibility when I raised it with him over dinner. “You can send all the bullets you want into this place.” If necessary, his guards would return fire, he said. “We’ve got a sniper post.” — SOURCE: New Yorker