Panicked super rich buying boltholes with private airstrips to escape if poor rise up

[freshwest]

19. Barter economy. Years ago the WSJ suggested this for them; and to buy ammo, too.

Set up their own little enclaves. This is no surprise, it's the same reason that castles were built, with retainers to go out and pillage the countryside if they needed anything.

There have been a few Libertarian enclaves that were attempted to be set up within the confines of the USA itself. Beck tried to set one up, the Kochs have something simliar with tanks, no less and Jeffs' compound was based on the same model, just as Koresh's was.

We already have gated communities and regions. This has been going on for some time and people seem to think it's quaint or else none of their business. We've gone a long ways from respecting public spaces.

NZ was called the crown jewel of the British Empire, not exactly a democracy in the beginning. It's ultimately better than Saudi Arabia and others we think of as extreme, but the rich bunker type mentality has been in existence much longer than the USA has. It also shaped society during the years of the plague in Europe as the rich moved closer to nature and left the masses.

Just sayin'