Survival of the Richest

Ryan Carboni ryacko at gmail.com
Sun Nov 17 14:19:24 PST 2019


In the great struggles of mankind, between men, nothing is greater
than to protect one's own bloodline. Still, one could be at the bottom
of Cheyenne and not be safe.

To abdicate one's responsibility is to forfeit authority.

https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1

Which region will be less impacted by the coming climate crisis: New
Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for
his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition, or
will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of a
brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his
own underground bunker system and asked, “How do I maintain authority
over my security force after the event?”

For all their wealth and power, they don’t believe they can affect the future.

...

This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew
armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the
angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was
worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader?
The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the
food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary
collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building
robots to serve as guards and workers — if that technology could be
developed in time.


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