Changing your minds perhaps?

[Ryan Carboni]

I wonder if the elites are changing their minds, maybe they no longer
want to live isolated castles with total dominion over their lands,
maybe they want to experience more sublime pleasures... like the arts
or nice events. Certainly can be more appealing.


https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1?gi=394ae8a88e41

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

The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse,
social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr. Robot hack
that takes everything down.

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.