Facebook founder Mark zuckerburg has said he will give back 99 per cent of his money. But the more power a person has, the less motor residence or mirroring they do of others,. This is part of our capacitystifeal ampathy. It does seem that most very, very wealthy people suffer an erosion of ampathy. Extreme wealth seems to turn people into ass holes.
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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