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Survival of the richest: The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind
CNBC ^ | July 11, 2018 | Douglas Rushkoff, author of "Team Human"

Posted on 07/13/2018 8:59:28 PM PDT by familyop

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...

That’s when it hit me:...they were preparing for a digital future that had a whole lot less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether and insulating themselves from a very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is really about just one thing: escape.


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To: familyop

Their first order of business is gaining enough power to use war, designer disease and societal breakdown to cull the human population down to a manageable number of slaves, who will be quartered in underground hovels and controlled with drugs and various technologies such as voice-to-skull (V2K).

Advanced robots will protect the elite, and some of the elite will “download” their neural systems into digital form so as to become immortal, in some sense. The elite plan to each dwell in enormous personal estates, worked by slaves and robots. The Earth will be a manicured paradise of discrete estates according to their dreams.

As the robots become more capable, the slaves will become superfluous, and then they will be sealed off permanently in their underground hovel-graves. The elites will derive enormous satisfaction watching the slaves on night-vision video as they gradually suffer in the darkness and die underground, hopeless and broken in spirit.

The satanic mindset of the elites isn’t satisfied with mere immeasurable wealth. “Lesser” beings must suffer greatly and die, so the elites can feel like cruel gods.


21 posted on 07/14/2018 4:32:34 AM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: exDemMom
I think that many rich people are egotistical and love the socialist model where only a handful of privileged elites get to live in ivory towers while the rabble lives in the dirt. They want to look down on people; this is how they attain a sense of self-worth.

Yes - a goal accelerated by bringing Third World wages and standards of living to the USA via mass immigration (legal and illegal).

But those oppressed rabble can make life very dangerous for the ultra rich in their enclaves. Far better to promote capitalism. The middle class aren’t as likely to attack, since they are already living fairly well.

Indeed.

22 posted on 07/14/2018 5:08:32 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: BenLurkin

Maybe just post the picture next time instead of the gif.


23 posted on 07/14/2018 5:09:37 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: familyop
The world of the future will be ran by a small population of skilled technicians who put in 10-hour work weeks only to ensure the machines stay running.

There will be no need for billions of unskilled, illiterate masses who know only how to procreate, eat food that was given to them, engage in violence, and steal.

Getting from here to there is going to be interesting.

24 posted on 07/14/2018 5:15:39 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: familyop

That is what communism is.. there is the ruling class and the rest of us are peons and our meager salaries are their bread...
Young people dont understand what they are asking for.
Experience trumps an argument and younguns havent lived long enough to know life’s lessons


25 posted on 07/14/2018 5:20:55 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: familyop
The article was entertaining and worth reading, agreed.

they were preparing for a digital future that had a whole lot less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether

Regarding the quote above - "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" - Tears for Fears. Translated into English and not poetry, everyone wants to be a God, especially in the modern world ("I'll choose my gender"). It's very easy to envision oneself as a minor deity with the capabilities that modern technology puts into our hands.

26 posted on 07/14/2018 5:47:36 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: familyop

“When the hedge funders asked me the best way to maintain authority over their security forces after “the event,” I suggested that their best bet would be to treat those people really well, right now. They should be engaging with their security staffs as if they were members of their own family.”

I have to imagine the true super elite probably thought about this problem decades ago. I can half believe they would have started completely isolated boys and girls schools to raise servants and guards up from babies. They would attempt to instill in them obedience and loyalty to the elites family the point they couldn’t even imagine questioning their orders. They would be given no frame of reference to even think anything was wrong with the situation.

Freegards


27 posted on 07/14/2018 6:22:05 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: familyop

There is an obvious solution here:

When things start to look bad, find a down-on-its luck town. Donate half of your wealth to empower the residents: medical care, education, training, small factories/farms, churches, whatever. Just help the town become sufficient in a way that gives every resident a chance to contribute. Then you will have thousands of willing security guards. Americans are not like others - as long as we think the system is fair, we are happy for the rich guy to keep his honestly-earned wealth.

Then, take some of what’s left and buy a lot of yellow cake and some centrifuges.......


28 posted on 07/14/2018 6:22:53 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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To: familyop

Agenda 21

(whatever that is)


29 posted on 07/14/2018 6:24:59 AM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: familyop

Qaddhafi had an estimated wealth of $200 billion, had literally armies of guards to protect him and still ended up dead.


30 posted on 07/14/2018 6:43:48 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Ping.


31 posted on 07/14/2018 6:44:57 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: familyop
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?

While post-apoplectic imaginings of total chaos are entertaining they are unrealistic

Humans are programmed to be cooperative.

Consider El Salvador, with 4000% inflation. People still are cooperating. Guards still guard the rich. Bankers still bank.

I doubt that even a complete world economic collapse would drive people to a scenario where a social cooperation evaporated.

But if I was to organize for such a scenario I would not hire armed guards but recruit people with useful skills to populate a remote defendable area.

These people would cooperate for mutual benefit, not for pay.

32 posted on 07/14/2018 7:21:22 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: familyop

Well it’s hard to diss on the rich for doing something a lot of us are doing on our own which is arming up and storing survival food.


33 posted on 07/14/2018 7:39:26 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

The difference is they also want to store their power over others.


34 posted on 07/14/2018 7:55:07 AM PDT by wgmalabama (The government murdered Robert LaVoy Finicum - what makes you think you are not next?)
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To: wgmalabama

Well the rich may be able to hole up in their stocked up compounds but they will not be able to expand power as they will also have a finite amount of food stores. All them guards gotta eat too.


35 posted on 07/14/2018 8:07:04 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: familyop
...they were preparing ... insulating themselves from a very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion.

WRONG.

The ONLY thing these LIBERAL ELITES were worried about was, "What do I do when society STOPS protecting MY privilege?" Liberal elites sense how much they're hated... Good. Monsters who run the plantation have reason to fear...

They should know - when it all falls apart - that last place a human will want to be is in a Martha's Vineyard' type community with paid 'protection' who will desert in a New York Minute.

36 posted on 07/14/2018 8:16:32 AM PDT by GOPJ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4 STOP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-IsingvI_I)
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To: Lurker

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?

Gold, jewelry, security for their own families. And if their families are behind them, they’ll be more willing to die for the place than if just working for money.

What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader?

Knowing how to defend yourself. Treating them well enough and being enough of the team that they see you as the leader.

The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew.

So either the billionaire has to unlock the food supply every day for the cook or the cook knows, and then it isn’t secret.

Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival...

The men with guns will choose a new leader if you propose something like this. And they’ll be willing to kill you or let you die if they suddenly wake up with shock collars.


37 posted on 07/14/2018 8:39:24 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: familyop
Interesting article. Kind of surprised to see it on CNBC.

I question, getting paid for that round table he would be talking about it let alone writing about it.

38 posted on 07/14/2018 9:00:51 AM PDT by stevio (MAGA)
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To: stevio

You would think the real power elite would have thought about all this decades ago and started working on their plan. I wonder why they didn’t make him sign non-disclosure agreements.

Freegards


39 posted on 07/14/2018 9:03:47 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: sergeantdave
Qaddhafi had an estimated wealth of $200 billion, had literally armies of guards to protect him and still ended up dead.

And got sodomized in the process.

40 posted on 07/14/2018 9:06:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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