Can the Wealthy Have a Separate Peace?
Posted by Nate Hagens on August 22, 2009 – 5:22pm in The Oil Drum: Campfire I normally dont mix with millionaires, but through 6 degrees of separation circumstances I found myself in an extensive and personal conversation with a wealthy and highly connected person. He knew that I was preparing for economic decline, including skills in household self-reliance. As the conversation evolved and took various twists and turns, he eventually proposed that a business helping the ultra rich establish lifeboats would be both lucrative and timely, and that I might be especially qualified. Imagine the family of an investment banker being plucked from their rooftop helipad in upper Manhattan to a prepared enclave in the country, while watching burning tires and broken glass 40 stories below. They could end up in upstate New York, or in a more exotic place like their personal island in the South Pacific. He then named about a dozen families on the Forbes list of billionaires who have already prepare
