Wake up Billionaires—There is No Exit
I’m going to say this plainly, because no one seems to be saying it to you in a way that actually lands. You’re not as insulated as you think you are. I can see what you’re doing. The land purchases. The compounds. The breaking of the social co tract by replacing workers with AI. The quiet redundancies built under the surface while the public message stays optimistic. You don’t talk about it directly, but the pattern is obvious. You’re planning for a scenario where things break and you don’t have to be there when they do. I understand the instinct. If you have the means, why wouldn’t you hedge? But the assumption underneath it—that you can step outside the system and ride out whatever happens—is where this falls apart. That’s not how systems work. Everything that made you successful depends on layers of coordination that you don’t control and can’t replicate. Energy, supply chains, medicine, skilled labor, functioning institutions, even something as basic as trust between people ...