The Takeaway — Collapse Isn’t a Flaw, It’s the Plan
The rich are not scrambling to prevent collapse. They welcome it — because they know they’ll be the only ones left standing. While the rest of us are told to “sacrifice” and “tighten our belts,” billionaires are building bunkers, buying private islands, and hoarding resources for the dystopia they see coming.
They run entire economies around themselves. You can hope some of their sphere turn on them but what makes you think they don’t have farms and advanced technology and pet technology firms and all sorts of shit all ready to go?
It’s not about the number of dollars or spending them it is about power. They will create new autocracies with themselves at the head, it’s not about the money anymore but what the money has already bought them. For the past decades the only thing that tells them “no” is the FBI and military. They look at what happened to John McAfee and want to ensure it never happens to them.
The tariffs are hurting America because American manufacturing - like all manufacturing around the world - depends on global supply chains. Do you think those container ships are still going to be doing business as usual after the collapse?
I don’t really see why that would impact them. I think the techbro economies are designed with these kinds of constraints in mind. They don’t care about global productivity where they don’t control it, and they have the means to secure much of whatever they think they need by coercion or force (particularly after a global collapse like what this article is about). Musk and co can own a private fleet of container ships especially once nobody can use them for normal trade anymore and people are desperate to offload them - if they even really need them in the first place.
They can buy and resurrect entire portions of the economy given their outsized proportion of wealth. Entire countries operate on less. How do you think dictators, feudalism, kings, gangs and every other despot power structure operate and have operated for all of human history? This is way beyond money. This is political power where money is just the means to achieve an end goal. Does Putin live in anything but opulent wealth despite his entire country’s economy being in the shitter?