Tuesday, April 18, 2017
New Zealand; A Silicon Valley Safe Haven?
In a recent Business Insider article, author Melia Robinson explores the trend of doomsday prepping among the tech-elite, and it's rising popularity with the new administration in the white house. Many are flocking to buy property in New Zealand due to its isolation and generally peaceful political climate. Many billionaires and tech execs have bought huge properties in the area, including Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal. An advantage to this is that, unlike much doomsday prep that requires building bunkers and bomb shelters, there is little to no chance that New Zealand would be bombed. With rising tensions in North Korea, there is a somewhat valid reason to be fearful of nuclear war. But I question if it is moral for those billionaires and millionaires who have helped throw the world into turmoil to take such an easy out? Shouldn't they use their resources to try and prevent nuclear war, instead of escape from it?
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In terms of morality they should help out and try to prevent war, but in reality why should they? They can either spend their money trying to stop something that may be inevitable, or they can use the same money to make sure their family and them are safe, and in an area where they can probably continue to make more money after a nuclear war. New Zealand would be safe, and with more powerful countries in ruins, the economy would probably improve. Their services would be needed a lot more to rebuild other parts of the world, so they would continue to get richer.
ReplyDeleteNew Zealand is undoubtedly an incredibly gorgeous country -- however, why are Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs choosing to by property there, when there are many other countries that also would be equally isolated from war?
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