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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs inequality soars, the nervous super rich are already planning their escapes
With growing inequality and the civil unrest from Ferguson and the Occupy protests fresh in peoples mind, the worlds super rich are already preparing for the consequences. At a packed session in Davos, former hedge fund director Robert Johnson revealed that worried hedge fund managers were already planning their escapes. I know hedge fund managers all over the world who are buying airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand because they think they need a getaway, he said.
I know hedge fund managers who are buying airstrips in places like New Zealand because they think they need a getaway
Robert Johnson
Johnson, who heads the Institute of New Economic Thinking and was previously managing director at Soros, said societies can tolerate income inequality if the income floor is high enough. But with an existing system encouraging chief executives to take decisions solely on their profitability, even in the richest countries inequality is increasing
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http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2015/jan/23/nervous-super-rich-planning-escapes-davos-2015?CMP=share_btn_fb
They better run for the hills. The revolution is a comin.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)family has bought a huge amount of acres in Paraguy
with an excellent water source. It would fit in, heh?
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Yep they be set no worries how smug do they realize that when they fuck up the environment start WW3 they can't hide from Mother Nature ? They may hold on to pure water after the rest is turned to shit gone but unless they build bunkers underground with food supplies for years which they probably have done what kind of existence is that. How is time spent counting money ? Do they have allegiance of Paraguay servants and mercenaries forever?
Nazis got away with hiding there so who knows
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_bush53.htm
melman
(7,681 posts)Initech
(100,080 posts)And we haven't developed enough space technology for them to travel to another planet, so we'll find them. They created this mess, they should be made to answer for their crimes.
brooklynite
(94,597 posts)Or, when the revolution comes, do we just throw that pesky "due process" rule out the window?
tkmorris
(11,138 posts)Is it really surprising to find they haven't technically broken any of them?
Skittles
(153,169 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)We'll have a safety committee
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)We've already established under this President that we don't need 'due process' for those.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)and changing diapers. IOW, making themselves useful to the human race for a change.
Initech
(100,080 posts)Or that rumored Scientology slave labor camp.
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)Initech
(100,080 posts)hopemountain
(3,919 posts)to shoveling shit into piles for compost and generating heat at slave camps in china or siberia.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Plenty of people in this world need $ .where are the Nazis never found . Died somewhere
The Enron dude did he ,Bush's biggest funder , die right before trial? I wonder about that one
Call me crazy but these people have all the resources and friends to pay their way out no problem imo May not keep that loyalty but who knows
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)I wanted to go to New Zealand to get away from their bullshit.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)brooklynite
(94,597 posts)FWIW -- New Zealand doesn't let just anyone into the Country and unless you have proof their Government is being bought off, I wouldn't pay a minute's attention to stories like this.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)If you 'invest' a certain amount, they'll take you. I don't recall if it was as cheap as half a mill, or up in the single millions range.
If you can't afford to simply buy your way in, you have to have skills they need.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)Alcatraz Island
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatraz_Island
Rikers Island
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikers_Island
Bikini Atoll
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll
And a nice chunk of land for them to farm, in Russia, where they can grow food. After all, we don't want to be supporting them anymore; they'll have to learn to do honest work from now on.
Chernobyl Farmland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
If they don't want to go along with our program, we will suggest that they need to consider the alternative.
Bastille Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day
cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Tell those bastards to SINK or SWIM with us to stop carbon pollution!
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25086963
Zorra
(27,670 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)How funny they are crying now. I already said what I think, I just hope when the day comes their apologists have the guts to line up with them - but I would be the bigger cowards are the scum that sold us out to the owners.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6119468
yurbud
(39,405 posts)New Zealanders have been hit pretty well by neoliberal scams and probably won't tolerate having epic sociopaths as their next door neighbors.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)they stopped treating the rest of us like shit AND they let us have an actual democratic government instead of buying most of our politicians.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)When you don't feel secure about any of those things, primarily because the rich are sucking up all the oxygen in the room, you resent them.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)The idea that you actually have to buy off the electorate, when you can now more cheaply just buy the elections along with the elected for a few cents on the dollar.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)and keep them from taking assets with them. Of course we will never get that as Congress and the SCOTUS would never do it. I also doubt that our President would sign it.
azmom
(5,208 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)He was wrong and so are these assholes. Justice will, one day, come to them. I guarantee it won't be any prettier than that which found the Ceaucescus. In fact they would be lucky to get off that easy.
brooklynite
(94,597 posts)I've been hearing these "the peasants will rise up" promises for years. I sometimes think some folks here will be disappointed if it doesn't happen.