Aaron Renn writes Oct. 3, 2024:
The rich are first in line here. They are building bunkers, and also acquiring massive ranches and other amounts of rural land. They are also among the people acquiring multiple passports. CNBC did an article earlier this year about the rich acquiring “passport portfolios.”
Another more mass market phenomenon is the large amount of interest in “prepping” (disaster preparation) is in line with this.
…the huge number of people preparing for a major social collapse is notable. Nobody did this when I was younger.
We also see a related interest in primitive or survival skills. There are lots of places you can take classes to learn this stuff, TV shows oriented around them, etc.
Some people are pre-deploying these skills by moving to rural areas and homesteading, often trying to do so using pre-industrial techniques.
