The secession of the billionaire class
"The billionaire class doesn’t care if producers raise their prices, because prices mean almost nothing to them. They aren’t concerned about retirement savings, because they don’t have to prepare for retirement.
If they’re preparing for anything, it’s the “event,” as they call it — the thing that will cause them to secede even further from the rest of the world into isolated, sanitized survival chambers. The “event” could be massive social unrest, an unstoppable virus, a malicious computer hack that takes everything down, or environmental collapse.
Taking their cue from Musk, they’re considering ever more elaborate escape routes — colonies on Mars, solar-powered SeaPods, anti-aging health-span extenders, and uploading their minds into supercomputers.
For America’s billionaires, the future of technology has less to do with making the world a better place than escaping from the rest of us."
READ ARTICLE BY ROBERT REICH
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