The Mind Set

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The mind set is the belief that with enough money and technology, you can insulate yourself from problems. Theres an understanding of human relationships merely as kind of market phenomena. There's a techno solutionism in the mind set: humanity is a problem to be solved with technology.

In this episode we sit down with Douglas Rushkoff, a media scholar, journalist, and professor of digital economics who has a new fire in his belly when it comes to the world of billionaire preppers, which comes across in his new book Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires – inspired by his invitation to consult a group of the world’s richest people on how to spend their money now to survive an apocalypse they fear is coming within their lifetimes.