[kyleschiller]

I don't know, I get how the whole survivalism might seem eccentric and even paranoid, but if I had a billion dollars I would absolutely be willing to spend a few million on preparing for worst case scenarios.

I know wealth doesn't really work in strict linear proportions, but as someone with a much lower net worth, I think it's reasonable to keep iodine tablets and canned food around, and can pretty easily imaging scaling that up a bit if I had drastically greater access to capital.

None of this is to say that I'm discounting the article, I actually liked it a lot.

[Maarten88]

I think that preparing for the worst case is understandable, but this way of preparing seems totally misguided and very childish.

I like the way Bill Gates is preparing much more, he is actively working and spending his billions to avoid collapse.

Peter Thiel and his likes seem to actively work toward collapse, gaming the system and profiting from the misery of the less fortunate along the way. Hoping to reestablish an "improved" version of their society elsewhere, even after its collapse, is beyond belief.

I hope that having friends will help more than having property, in the event of society collapse. At the very least, I'd hope NZ would quickly take all his money as a special "solidarity tax", if that day would come.