The diaspera of the wealthy is really just the ultimate man cave fantasy. The real, the real reason thomas jefferson built the dumb waiter had not very little to do with making less work for enslaved people and a whole lot more to do with make it so that you don't see where your food's coming from. So what shall we be doing about this train that's headed for the cliff of culture right now? What do you think? Sharpen your pitchforks. I will think that every time i unbox anything from now an thank you for that.
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.