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Why are billionaires prepping for the apocalypse?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is It a Somber Fatalism or a Happy Nihilism?

I can't tell whether this mindset is a kind of somber fatalism or if it's just a inhuman or post human nihilism. I think they don't quite look at human beings the same way most of us do. They don't get an oxytocin response when they look into the eyes of a little baby goat. You actually lose empathy as you become a billionaire. We don't know why. It's probably because of the choices you have to make in order to become a billionaire forces you to cut yourself off.

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