Skip to comments.
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...
Thats 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: banglist; bloggers; clickbait; globalism; misanthropy; nevertrumpers; openborders
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-69 last
To: SaveFerris
Mark 8:36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
61
posted on
07/18/2018 4:42:22 PM PDT
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
To: SkyPilot; metmom; null and void; Roman_War_Criminal
The first 1/2 of the Tribulation will be tough.
The second half, the Great Tribulation will make Nazi Germany pale in comparison. Pretty scary stuff.
Mark 13:12 King James Version (KJV)
12 Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
62
posted on
07/18/2018 4:50:17 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SaveFerris
So where are they going to go and how are they going to manage without the peons doing all their dirty work for them?
I’d hazard a guess that those with any real survival skills are not the rich.
63
posted on
07/18/2018 6:57:32 PM PDT
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
To: SaveFerris
For them, the future of technology is really about just one thing: escape. Not escape.
Control.
64
posted on
07/18/2018 6:58:52 PM PDT
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
To: metmom
Abandoned missile silos. Rebuilt for lots of money.
Pretty cool. I can’t afford one.
65
posted on
07/18/2018 10:49:36 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: tbw2
I believe something like that is already happening covertly through things like Facebook.
66
posted on
07/18/2018 11:04:25 PM PDT
by
Califreak
(Take Me Back To Constantinople)
To: SaveFerris
Revelation 6:12-17 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?
67
posted on
07/19/2018 6:06:34 AM PDT
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
To: metmom
Yes, and despite that verse there are still some who think post-trib. Completely impossible.
Good notation that it’s the rich and the powerful noted in there, also.
68
posted on
07/19/2018 9:50:47 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: familyop
Let the wealthy bury the wealthy.
5.56mm
69
posted on
07/19/2018 10:02:56 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-69 last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson