A recent new yorker piece, wonderfully titled, to have and te have yachtssasad until this fantasy of sea stating phantasy is realized. And describes how a hundred nd 25 million dollar mega yacht, advertises that it can provide six months of autonomy at sea. In case of emergency, you cauld live in open water, keep your food stored, make your water from the sea, desalnization for six monhs. I mean, where else in civilization did it get to a place where everyone has to have their own, like, four o one k retirement plan?
Have you ever found yourself sitting around a table at a luxury resort with five mega-rich strangers who want to know where you think they should build their doomsday bunkers? Absurd as it may sound, that actually happened to media theorist Douglas Rushkoff. Today on the show he explains why the 0.01 percent are obsessed with escaping climate change, global pandemics, political upheaval ... and us.
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