I’m a sucker. I always enjoy watching/reading about Doomsday preppers. Who says the economy is in bad form when people are spending thousands to build above/below ground dwellings for whatever doom/gloom quenches your thirst. I can understand having a stockpile of food if you live in an area in tornado alley or flood zone. But why build a dwelling 30-40 miles away from your residence if a tsunami is coming because chances are you’re not gonna make it – PB/TK
A Guide to Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich —RealClearLife Staff
Scientists just moved the Doomsday Clock a half-minute closer to midnight, so at least a few wary people have started pooling canned goods. Whether they’re prescient or paranoid, members of the financial and elite in New York City and San Francisco are doing the same thing—preparing for the end of the world.
Doomsday prepping has been a growing trend among the super-rich for the last decade, but the phenomenon has seen an uptick in the last year with political events exposing divisive tensions at home in the United States and around the world. Executives at Fortune 500 companies fear a range of catastrophes from full-scale nuclear war to a country-wide devastating cyber attack, and even a Bolshevik-type revolution caused by the breakdown of democracy. The concern is born out of alarming facts: acute income inequality, growing military tensions between superpowers, rising sea levels, and diminishing funds for Medicare and Social Security
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