How Billionaires Are Preparing For Doomsday - Douglas Rushkoff - #557

Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist, futurist, writer and documentarian.

The world's richest people are preparing for the end. They're buying up farming land and below-ground bunkers in New Zealand. What catastrophe is it that they think is about to happen? And what happens if technology creates a techno-hell instead of a techno-utopia?

Expect to learn what happens when you're invited to brief billionaires on the future downfall of the earth, whether having your own sovereign nation at sea is a realistic idea, whether it's possible to live in an underground missile silo with an indoor infinity pool, what mindset is driving this techno-paranoia and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:56) How Billionaires Are Preparing Now for Doomsday (08:26) What Introduced Douglas to this Subject? (16:31) The Possibilities of Seasteading (26:33) Society’s Knee-jerk Reaction of Totalitarianism (31:46) The Parts of Preparation that Billionaires Struggle with (37:59) Desire for a Better, More Enjoyable Future (51:28) How Individuals & Society Can Improve (1:01:07) Where to Find Douglas

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