Posted on 01/26/2015 11:43:28 AM PST by 9thLife
Super rich hedge fund managers are buying 'secret boltholes' where they can hideout in the event of civil uprising against growing inequality, it has been claimed.
Nervous financiers from across the globe have begun purchasing landing strips, homes and land in areas such as New Zealand so they can flee should people rise up.
With growing inequality and riots such as those in London in 2011 and in Ferguson and other parts of the USA last year, many financial leaders fear they could become targets for public fury.
Robert Johnson, president of the Institute of New Economic Thinking, told people at the World Economic Forum in Davos that many hedge fund managers were already planning their escapes.
He said: “I know hedge fund managers all over the world who are buying airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand because they think they need a getaway."
GettyAustralian outbackHideaway: Rich people are plotting to escape to remote parts of the world Mr Johnson, said the economic situation could soon become intolerable as even in the richest countries inequality was increasing.
He said: "People need to know there are possibilities for their children – that they will have the same opportunity as anyone else.
"There is a wicked feedback loop. Politicians who get more money tend to use it to get more even money."
He added: "I think the rich are worried and they should be worried. I mean inequality, why does it matter?
"Most people have heard the Oxfam statistics that now we’ve got 80, the 80 richest people in the world, having more wealth that the bottom three-point-five billion, and very soon we’ll get a situation where that one percent, one percent of the richest people have more wealth than everybody else, the 99."
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So they can all fly off to Davos
The poor can rise up and dispossess the rich ... and then they would starve, because there would be no one left to fund the food stamps.
Let me guess ... they’ve both got their eye on the same teenage girl.
I do agree that the political class should worry. With any luck the masses could drive them from the DC Metro area like snakes out of Ireland or lemmings to the Chesapeake for floating observations.
The zombies will find then. And eat them.
Why, they're all going to fly one-way down to New Zealand and live at the foot of a soggy-moss glacier amongst the mountain sheep along with the middle class Gulfstream pilots who flew them there. Oh, uh huh.
What then? I dunno... When the MREs run out I suppose that they'll pull the palm fronds from atop the Gulfstream and fly back home once they're convinced things have settled down -- that is, unless the pilots haven't killed the ultra wealthy guy to steal his spectacles to light campfires in order to perform the sacrificial dance to their new fly-covered god.
Pardon me if I discount this claim as malarkey.
Consider that anyplace the ferals can get to in a vehicle or on foot is not really safe.
;-)
Yeah. Guillotining anyone with any smarts or drive did a lot for France, too!
I don't think it's the "poor" that worry them.
How can Obama go to $34,000 a head dinners every night if this happens?
Exactly!!!
No one has ever looked into what caused the 08 crash.
Other than in 1 day, 500B was moved out of market
The leeches leave the economy in ruins and then run with the wealth of the nation.
Time to make private jet ownership illegal.
Galt walked away from his fortune.
These guys want it all.
>>Look at what Icelanders did to the bankers who screwed them over? They had them arrested, jailed, and taken to court!<<
I thought they were tied to stakes in the sea as the tide rose, and sacrificed to Odin.
They won’t be hard to find. Just look for the guys trying to barter large worthless bills for a can of soup.
Back in the mid-1990s, the Rockies around places such as Vail and Aspen were dotted with multi-million dollar houses mostly unlived in, but guarded and maintained. I figure the owners of them knew something I don’t know...even back then.
“Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.”
Motive more likely income and estate taxes.
We could lock them in the Metro tunnels.
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