To assess which nations would be most resilient to such a collapse, countries were ranked according to their ability to grow food for their population, protect their borders from unwanted mass migration, and maintain an electrical grid and some manufacturing ability.
Mhmm. So places with a labor force big enough to grow all their food to a surplus, and be somewhat industrial. All the rich people move there, the former first world collapses, and then what? The wealthy buy up all the factories and farms. They start raising prices. Profit eventually falls like it did in history everywhere else. They have to loosen up border restrictions because they need cheaper labor. They have to do an imperialism. Then in 50-100 years these best places go through the same shit.
Peter Thiel doesn't have a bunker in NZ just because he thinks it's a cool place to retire. If the US gets too bad, he'll go there and do Peter Thiel things. They're not going to stop extracting wealth just because the world ends.
I'm pretty sure their immediate goals are to bunker down and survive in some place they've turned into a fortress. So basically, their plan is to copy North Korea's strategy for dealing with encirclement and an active siege, just somewhere with no land borders and without all the material and ideological policies that keep the populace committed to the cause even in the face of hardship.
That last bit's the big one: these oligarchs want to maintain their personal opulence and power, which means extracting massive amounts of wealth from a comparatively smaller population that's also right on their doorsteps, with much fewer raw resources on hand to process and without the flow of resources and goods from subjugated colonies outside the imperial core. The only way to maintain power like that is through constant terrorism from a warrior class, and they'd basically have to import their own army with no ties to the local population if they're going to be setting up an old fashioned colonial state somewhere that's currently part of the imperial core. They want to turn places like New Zealand into the fantastical image the western media paints about North Korea, and it'll end up looking like Apartheid South Africa but with imported PMC mercs doing the massacres and evictions.
Mhmm. So places with a labor force big enough to grow all their food to a surplus, and be somewhat industrial. All the rich people move there, the former first world collapses, and then what? The wealthy buy up all the factories and farms. They start raising prices. Profit eventually falls like it did in history everywhere else. They have to loosen up border restrictions because they need cheaper labor. They have to do an imperialism. Then in 50-100 years these best places go through the same shit.
Peter Thiel doesn't have a bunker in NZ just because he thinks it's a cool place to retire. If the US gets too bad, he'll go there and do Peter Thiel things. They're not going to stop extracting wealth just because the world ends.
I'm pretty sure their immediate goals are to bunker down and survive in some place they've turned into a fortress. So basically, their plan is to copy North Korea's strategy for dealing with encirclement and an active siege, just somewhere with no land borders and without all the material and ideological policies that keep the populace committed to the cause even in the face of hardship.
That last bit's the big one: these oligarchs want to maintain their personal opulence and power, which means extracting massive amounts of wealth from a comparatively smaller population that's also right on their doorsteps, with much fewer raw resources on hand to process and without the flow of resources and goods from subjugated colonies outside the imperial core. The only way to maintain power like that is through constant terrorism from a warrior class, and they'd basically have to import their own army with no ties to the local population if they're going to be setting up an old fashioned colonial state somewhere that's currently part of the imperial core. They want to turn places like New Zealand into the fantastical image the western media paints about North Korea, and it'll end up looking like Apartheid South Africa but with imported PMC mercs doing the massacres and evictions.