That being said, even among the most dedicated, diligent and well-financed perhaps 1 in 50 were taking steps to attain true long term survivability in the event of a society-toppling Big Boom. I would define this as seeking to obtain remote, secure, and self-sufficient land, and then stock it with enough material and more importantly enough trusted, like-minded people to effectively form their own communities; a durable and enduring hedge against apocalypse.
Comparing that ratio against the stats gleaned from the survey, we can make an informed guesstimate about how many preppers are doomsday preppers. It might be a little on the high side, but as many as 3. There are at least 3. At any rate, 3. It is comforting to know that so many of our fellows are dedicated to surviving and preparing against the worst of the worst.
Tom Marlowe practically grew up with a gun in his hand, and has held all kinds of jobs in the gun industry: range safety, sales, instruction and consulting, Tom has the experience to help civilian shooters figure out what will work best for them. Your email address will not be published. But are they Doomsday Preppers? Conclusion There are at least 3. Doomsday real estate purchases have also become a trend.
His island home features generators, solar panels, and weaponry. There could be many reasons why those with money in the Valley opt to invest in doomsday preparations. One, as Huffman told The New Yorker, could be that Silicon Valley needs an exit strategy for when the angry masses retaliate against them for building the kind of automated technology that is replacing human workers.
Political unrest is another potential factor. But their mere wealth and circumstances could also be the simplest explanation, as well as the experience that comes with operating in the risk-heavy venture capital industry. They consider it a remote event, but one with a very severe downside, so, given how much money they have, spending a fraction of their net worth to hedge against this The most popular location for buying up apocalypse land has become New Zealand. Thiel owns two New Zealand properties and became a citizen in Ex-president of famed accelerator Y Combinator Sam Altman said he also has his eyes trained on New Zealand in case of a disaster.
He told The New Yorker that he and Thiel had an escape route to New Zealand planned in case of some kind of cataclysmic collapse, like a nuclear war or a viral outbreak. The fixation on New Zealand could stem from one of Thiel's favorite books. At its core, the book essentially details how a civilizational collapse would give way to the rise of the surviving "cognitive elite" who would then rebuild a new world after idling standing by — and hiding — as the existing way of life crumbled to pieces.
Thiel passed the book on through the Valley grapevine, spreading the concept to his colleagues in the tech community, according to The Guardian. The book's authors also pinpointed New Zealand as the prime spot to hole up until the dust settled following a fallout. That fact, coupled with Thiel's longtime fanaticism of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy — which was filmed in the country — is how Thiel and the rest of the tech elite made New Zealand their target apocalyptic hideout.
He turned one of the home's walk-in closets into a panic room. Thiel obtained private citizenship of New Zealand in as well, despite only having spent 12 days in the country. Buying up New Zealand real estate became so popular among execs in the Valley that purchasing a house in New Zealand became Silicon Valley code for getting "apocalypse insurance," as Business Insider's Melia Russell reported in Some tech execs have even reportedly already flocked to their bunkers in the country to wait out the COVID pandemic.
And some in New Zealand resent that so much of the nation's property has gone to wealthy foreign buyers who don't live there permanently. So in , the New Zealand Parliament passed a law barring most foreign visitors from purchasing homes or land within the country, which had begun exacerbating a nationwide housing crisis.
But otherwise it's not a right, it's a privilege," New Zealand's minister for economic development and trade David Parker said in He also notes that while the company's sales were previously more concentrated in pockets around the country, like coastal states in the southeastern U.
ReadyWise is far from the only brand in this market, though. In January, celebrity marketing executive Simon Huck co-founded Judy, an emergency preparedness kit company, after he says he saw data that the majority of Americans do not have disaster plans in place. Huck's company received an immediate publicity boost when his friend, Kim Kardashian West, posted a March Instagram Story to her nearly million followers in which she posed wearing an N95 mask and shouting out her Judy survival kit.
Huck tells CNBC Make It that Judy has already sold more than 30, kits since launching, and the company has customers "across every state in America. Of course, many preppers like to curate their own survival kits or bug out bags, and sites like ThePrepared.
Truly committed and well-financed preppers have been known to spend millions of dollars on bunker or other types of off-the-grid, even underground , shelters. In , Scott even said his company was building a luxury bunker for Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, though the couple never confirmed the bunker and a representative for Kardashian did not offer a comment. Another company, Del Mar, California-based Vivos , makes "underground survival shelters" that it calls "the backup plan for humanity" in the event of a catastrophe like nuclear war or economic collapse.
The company has full bunker complexes in Indiana, Germany and South Dakota, the latter of which consists of concrete and steel bunkers that Vivos says are spaced out across 18 square miles and currently have over two dozen families living there full-time.
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