How Tech’s Richest Plan to Save Themselves after the Apocalypse
Silicon Valley’s elite are hatching plans to escape disaster – and when it comes, they’ll leave the rest of us behind.
by Douglas Rushkoff for Medium — Published in the Guardian.
Tue 24 Jul 2018 02.00 EDT
Last modified on Wed 25 Jul 2018 11.25 EDT
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My Reaction
This is the worldwide agenda.
Why spend money or do anything to help the poor?
The idea in this article is that “survival of the fittest” is where the “fittest” are the extremely wealthy. Of course, they have zero understanding of what “survival of the fittest” means. In biology, fitness is primarily concerned with reproduction. Fit species are those that can produce enough viable offspring that can survive long enough to perpetuate the species. They are necessarily the strongest, fiercest, or smartest. Some species are fit because they produce hundreds of offspring at a time. This is the gambler’s strategy of playing the odds. Others produce fewer offspring, but spend more time and energy caring for the young until they can take care of themselves. This is the nurturer’s strategy. But, there also the key ingredient of variation or diversity. Species that are not diverse enough to have variation in their gene pools are not likely to survive, especially under intensely challenging changes in environmental conditions, such as those looming on the horizon.
The wealthy, no matter how much money they have, may be the least likely to survive. Their gene pool is too small. They really aren’t good at nurturing, because they’ve always paid someone to do it for them. They might be good at the money end of the gambler’s strategy, but in terms of offspring, they’ll fail miserably. And, they lack the knowledge and skills to survive as individuals, let alone as a specie, in conditions that will be unlike anything they have ever encountered.
The big switcheroo may be that the world’s poorest will inherit the human lineage. They are knowledgeable and skilled at surviving with very little. They know how to nurture. And, there are enough of them to have a highly varied gene pool. Maybe there was some wisdom and foresight to the phrase, “The meek shall inherit the Earth.”