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SURVIVAL OF THE RICHEST - ESCAPE FANTASIES OF T...

Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk.
The subject? How to survive the "Event": the societal collapse they know is coming. Rushkoff
argues that these men were under the influence of The Mindset  a Silicon Valley-style certainty
that they and their cohort can escape a disaster of their own making-as long as they have
enough money and the right technology.   Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science
and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars  island bunkers  AI futurism
and the metaverse. Through fascinating characters-master programmers who want to remake the
world as if redesigning a video game and bankers who return from Burning Man convinced
incentivized capitalism will prevent environmental disasters-Rushkoff explains why those with
the most power to change the world have no interest in doing so. He argues that the only way to
survive the coming catastrophe is to ensure it doesn't happen by rediscovering community 
mutual aid  and human interdependency.   Anticipating the mass layoffs and institutional
collapse that have recently rocked Silicon Valley  Rushkoff's Survival of the Richest is "a
necessary and timely read" ( Los Angeles Review of Books ) with a prophetic message about the
future of tech and our human community.

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