There is virtually no discussion of the actual problem, which is the subversion of Western civilization and the embrace of usury that has led to the tidal wave of debt that has engulfed the global economy and benefited the selfish, short-sighted sociopaths of whom the tech billionaires are merely a subset. Nor is there any analysis on the ways that Russia and China have been successfully addressing the problem by leashing their erstwhile oligarchs and putting the national interest ahead of economic theories and ideologies that just happen to justify The Mindset.
What I came to realize as I sat sipping imported iceberg water and pondering doomsday scenarios with our society’s great winners is that these men are actually the losers. The billionaires who called me out to the desert to evaluate their bunker strategies are not the victors of the economic game so much as the victims of its perversely limited rules. More than anything, they have succumbed to a mindset where “winning” means earning enough money to insulate themselves from the damage they are creating by earning money in that way. It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust.
