As inequality soars, the nervous super rich are already planning their escapes

[PADemD]

With growing inequality and the civil unrest from Ferguson and the Occupy protests fresh in people’s mind, the world’s super rich are already preparing for the consequences. At a packed session in Davos, former hedge fund director Robert Johnson revealed that worried hedge fund managers were already planning their escapes. “I know hedge fund managers all over the world who are buying airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand because they think they need a getaway,” he said.

http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2015/jan/23/nervous-super-rich-planning-escapes-davos-2015

[MohRokTah]

1. 85 people

That's where most of the inequality lies.

85 people out of 7,000,000,000.

[daleanime]

3. Soon to be 80....

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. 85 people who honestly believe the world would shut down without them.

[ND-Dem]

9. it's a lot more than 85. i don't know why you think 85 people are responsible for 'most'

inequality. show your work, please.

[a2liberal]

12. Link

http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2014/01/23/the-85-richest-people-in-the-world-have-as-much-wealth-as-the-3-5-billion-poorest/

[ND-Dem]

13. •The bottom half of the world’s population owns the same as the richest 85 people in the world.

Doesn't mean those 85 are responsible for most inequality and if you get rid of those 85 people, inequality vanishes.

•In the US, the wealthiest one percent captured 95 percent of post-financial crisis growth since 2009, while the bottom 90 percent became poorer.

The richest 1% in the US is more than 85 people. But inequality is the system, not just people.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. The Bushes have a 100,000 acre "ranch" down in Paraguay...

[99th_Monkey]

4. With one of the world's biggest known aquifers

With Blackwater snipers at every turret.

[ND-Dem]

8. are they going to work it themselves? if not, who's going to do the work and why?

there's no where to run with the world in flames. and money won't be very useful.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. Of course, it never OCCURED to them they could buy their way out by increasing payroll and taxes.

[ND-Dem]

7. who's going to provide them with food when they run out? who's going to provide their medical

care?

what good is all their money going to do them then? they may as well not have it if things get that bad.

[NBachers]

10. Easy- they'll pay people who will be lining up to work for money and privilege.

[ND-Dem]

11. why would anyone sign up? what use would money be at that point? why wouldn't they go

find some land of their own to work?

[Tsiyu]

14. No, my bet is they'll try to take slaves

It's the Bushes. Come on.

If Barb is alive, she'll say all the Amazon natives they kidnapped are so happy, and that "it's working out well for them."

George will get drunk and abuse them.

Life will be splendid, because they deserve a splendid life, even as the world crumbles. lol

[jeff47]

15. That's OK. We'll find them. (nt)

[CJCRANE]

16. If having all of the world's wealth means they have to run away...

then why not spread it around a little, stay where they are, and just have most of the world's wealth?

It all seems somewhat self-defeating to destroy the society that gave them the wealth to the point that they have to become fugitives.