[immigrantheart]

> The way to get your guards to exhibit loyalty in the future was to treat them like friends right now, I explained

How can you be ultra naive and give talks and publish an article?

No wonder the billionairres rolled their eyes.

Not defending the billionaires here in case HN hippies make angry noises.

[clydethefrog]

At the end of the article the author, Douglas Rushkoff, realises they didn't ask him specifically for legit advice but rather performed a philosophical and critical evaluation of their justifications for their (selfish) future safety plans. Douglas is a pretty successful media theorist - he coined the terms viral media, digital native, and social currency. I have a theory they probably all asked "great thinkers" [0] for their opinion.

[0] It wouldn't surprised me if they used some thought leader analysis, because Rushkoff is pretty high on that list. https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.1160

[bsenftner]

Douglas Rushkoff concludes the article implying his clients might be on the cusp of realizing if anyone is in a position to slow, halt, and/or reverse the forces leading to The Event it is those clients asking him questions.

[SyzygistSix]

Which is odd. Who thinks someone who has a couple or few hundred million from Silicon Valley-type startups and investments has any more pull than say, Madonna? Or a group from Hollywood?

[yallneedtogetit]

Sounds like our boy Douglas is having himself some delusions of grandeur.