Doomsday Prep for the Super-rich
<i>“I typically ask people, ‘So you’re worried about the pitchforks. How much money have you donated to your local homeless shelter?’ This connects the most, in my mind, to the realities of the income gap. All the other forms of fear that people bring up are artificial.”</i><p>I like Max Levchins idea behind this statement. The underlying anxiety shown by a lot of the characters interviewed in this article display a real human dis-connect. There is nothing in the US (and other countries for that matter) that cannot be fixed with hard work, a bit of luck and investment in the right things. Maybe that is the real eye-opener. One of the things I have observed, in crisis the way individuals act, reflects their mental state.<p><i>&quot;The growing foreign appetite for New Zealand property has generated a backlash. The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa—the Maori name for New Zealand—opposes sales to foreigners.&quot;</i><p>NZ, a colonised country with a treaty, has all the same problems the US has in terms of inequity. Way more tribal and dangerous than the tourist brochures suggest.<p><i>&quot;The original silo of Hall’s complex was built by the Army Corps of Engineers to withstand a nuclear strike.&quot;</i><p>The traces of hydrazine (H4N2), you get for nothing. ~ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epa.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;production&#x2F;files&#x2F;2016-09&#x2F;documents&#x2F;hydrazine.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epa.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;production&#x2F;files&#x2F;2016-09&#x2F;documents...</a>