The 0.1% are no longer invested in the well-being of America
ESSAY Ricardo @Ric_RTP
This Wall Street insider just exposed the secret doomsday escape plans of AI billionaires.
1 in 3 billionaires has a fully funded plan to abandon civilization when things collapse.
They meet their pilots at Oakland airport, board a Gulfstream 650, fly to New Zealand, and disappear into a bunker that cost tens of millions to build.
And this isn’t some conspiracy theory. There’s literally PROOF:
Sam Altman told The New Yorker he stockpiles guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, and gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force. He owns a patch of land in Big Sur he can fly to when society breaks down. His backup plan is flying with Peter Thiel to Thiel’s compound in New Zealand.
Peter Thiel became a New Zealand citizen in 2011 after spending only 12 days in the country. He bought a 477-acre estate for $13.5 million and submitted plans for a bunker-style compound embedded into a hillside with a 1,082-foot glass-lined guest lodge for 24 people.
Mark Zuckerberg is building a 5,000 square foot underground shelter beneath his $270 million compound in Hawaii. Blast-resistant doors made of metal and concrete, its own energy and food supplies, and an escape hatch accessible by ladder.
Every construction worker signed an NDA and different crews were forbidden from speaking to each other.
Larry Page, co-founder of Google, quietly disappeared to Fiji during the pandemic. He reportedly bought at least one private island in the Mamanuca archipelago. When local media reported his presence, Fijian authorities ordered the article taken down.
Scott Galloway sat with one of these billionaires who walked him through his entire exit strategy step by step.
His response: “You don’t think your pilots are going to kill you and fuck your wife? You don’t think the people in New Zealand are going to come take the rich guy’s shit?”
But here’s the thing that really matters…
These are the SAME people building AI.
The same founders telling Congress that AI will cure cancer have already decided they’re leaving when it goes sideways.
Galloway confirmed a secondhand account from someone close to one of these AI CEOs. The CEO admitted he believes there’s a 7 to 10% chance AI results in a catastrophic event for humanity. And he doesn’t care because being the person who summoned this intelligence is “more consequential than whatever happens.”
These billionaires don’t use public healthcare. They have concierge medicine delivered to their living room. Their kids attend $75,000 per year academies while public schools spend $10,000.
They fly private. They have private security instead of police.
Galloway’s words: “The 0.1% are no longer invested in the well-being of America. They’ve totally dissociated because they’re sequestered from it.”
And the incentives to reach that level are so extreme that founders will make ANY decision necessary to get there.
Galloway called it the Darth Vader pipeline. Every tech CEO follows the same arc:
Sam Altman was “the gay son we all wanted.” Soft spoken, testifying before Congress about safety.
Now he’s subpoenaing nonprofits that criticize OpenAI and telling people to stop complaining about energy costs.
Galloway on all of them: “These guys would sleep with their cousin for a nickel.”
The next chosen hero is Dario Amodei at Anthropic. Galloway says he’ll follow the exact same path because the system makes it inevitable.
Then he dropped his most dangerous prediction:
He thinks there’s a 1 in 3 chance AI ends up like jet transportation, vaccines, or PCs. Technologies that changed civilization but where NO group of companies ever captured serious shareholder value.
The entire airline industry across all of history is at break even. Moderna is down 90%. AI models are converging.
Open weight Chinese models are free and a third of corporations are already using them.
His prediction: Go short the AI ecosystem. The winner of AI might be us, the users. Not the companies.
And if he’s right, the domino effect is terrifying…
40% of the S&P is tied to AI. Most GDP growth over the last two years came from AI capex. So if corporations start dropping OpenAI and Anthropic for free Chinese models, the entire market could crash.
This is just like the Chinese steel dumping in the 80s:
Flood America with cheap AI, kneecap the companies propping up the stock market, then trigger a recession without firing a single shot.
The billionaires building AI have escape plans ready. They’ve detached from society entirely.
They know there’s a real chance this ends badly and they’re building it anyway.
Every tech hero turns villain on a shorter timeline.
And the financial system is so dependent on AI valuations that one move from China could bring it all down.
And we’re still trusting these people to self-regulate.
What do you think?
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