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Some of the wealthiest people in Americain Silicon Valley, New York, and beyondare getting ready for the crackup of civilization.
By Evan Osnos
Steve Huffman, the thirty-three-year-old co-founder and C.E.O. of Reddit, which is valued at six hundred million dollars, was nearsighted until November, 2015, when he arranged to have laser eye surgery. He underwent the procedure not for the sake of convenience or appearance but, rather, for a reason he doesnt usually talk much about: he hopes that it will improve his odds of surviving a disaster, whether natural or man-made. If the world endsand not even if the world ends, but if we have troublegetting contacts or glasses is going to be a huge pain in the ass, he told me recently. Without them, Im fucked.
Huffman, who lives in San Francisco, has large blue eyes, thick, sandy hair, and an air of restless curiosity; at the University of Virginia, he was a competitive ballroom dancer, who hacked his roommates Web site as a prank. He is less focussed on a specific threata quake on the San Andreas, a pandemic, a dirty bombthan 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.
Survivalism, the practice of preparing for a crackup of civilization, tends to evoke a certain picture: the woodsman in the tinfoil hat, the hysteric with the hoard of beans, the religious doomsayer. But in recent years survivalism has expanded to more affluent quarters, taking root in Silicon Valley and New York City, among technology executives, hedge-fund managers, and others in their economic cohort.
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underpants
(182,931 posts)Now doesn't it?
Atman
(31,464 posts)This was the end purpose of the massive tax returns. They knew their New World Order was going to fuck over everyone (meaning 'the people') and they were essentially hording money in preparation for the end times. Not biblical end times, I don't believe in that stuff, rather the total economic collapse brought about by their policies. If you're living in a 20,000 sq ft. mansion with your own generations, fuel storage, food, safe behind compound walls, you'll be able to ride out several years of hell as the country rebuilds itself -- and you'll be the one who gets to decide how to rebuild, because you have all the money.
This was the plan all along.
Girard442
(6,086 posts)"Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man." -- George S Patton.
Atman
(31,464 posts)...when the hungry masses start looting and pillaging.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)braddy
(3,585 posts)People should at least be capable of being self sufficient for 2 weeks.