This is an English translation of an article I wrote for a German magazine. The article looks into the post apocalyptic strategies the wealthy and ultrarich are focusing on. Main point: The rich are as afraid of the collapse of society as anyone else, but their means to face the calamity are on another level.
If they hide in bunkers, they will just have a much closer view of their very own, very intimate, civil war.
It doesn’t matter what they come up with, it doesn’t matter how loyal their guards are. Someone in that bunker will one day wake up, and decide the old man needs to go.
I read a book by China Mieville called “Iron Council” which put it best: “History is dripping. And red. With the blood of those who trusted the uncorruptible.”