[✔️] March 5, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Survival of the Richest - Douglas Rushkoff

Sun Mar 5 11:39:34 EST 2023

/*March 5, 2023*/

/[ The origins of his book - he has some great and important rants in 
this video - worth hearing  ]/
*Douglas Rushkoff | Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the 
Tech Billionaires*
Author Events
Sep 26, 2022
Recorded September 20, 2022
In conversation with Kevin Werbach

Acclaimed for their intersectional explorations of cyberculture, 
religion, currency, and politics, Douglas Rushkoff’s 20 bestselling 
books include Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Program or Be 
Programmed, Present Shock, and Media Virus. He also is the host of the 
Team Human podcast, writes a column for Medium, and created the PBS 
Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants 
of Cool. A professor of media theory and digital economics at City 
University of New York, Queens College, he was selected as one of the 
world’s 10 most influential intellectuals by MIT, was the first winner 
of the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual 
Activity, is a recipient of the Marshall McLuhan Award, and has received 
many other accolades. In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff reveals the 
flawed mindset that has led out-of-touch tech titans to prepare for a 
societal catastrophe they could simply avert through practical measures.

Chair of the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the 
University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Ken Werbach is the author 
of For the Win: How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business and 
The Blockc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gec4TXdSwM

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/[ New book reviewed in a video opinion by Beckwith ]/
*The Billionaire Mindset to Survive Global Societal Collapse like Abrupt 
Climate System Change*
Paul Beckwith
1,272 views  Mar 4, 2023
Over the last week or so I read the new book by Douglas Rushkoff called 
“Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires”.

The book gives many fascinating insights into the Mindset of many 
billionaires, their worldview that we are heading to societal collapse, 
and how they are hoping to survive in bunkers or on remote islands in 
the event of global catastrophe.

The core of the book is how Rushkoff was invited to an exclusive resort 
in the middle of the desert, for one-third his annual professor salary, 
to what he thought was a talk to a hundred of the wealthiest people. 
Instead, he met with five billionaires and peppered with questions such 
as “New Zealand or Alaska?”; what’s the best place to be to survive 
climate catastrophe causing societal collapse.

I found the book fascinating, so I chat about the ideas and thoughts of 
the super elite, who are much more concerned about saving their own 
hides than they are about the well-being of the people on the planet; 
they just want to escape. They make little effort to “save humanity” and 
are absolutely certain societal order and civilization will soon 
collapse. The more money and power they accumulate, the less empathy 
they have for others, borne out by studies measuring brain activity 
patterns.

I have often said that we need to take the entire military budget of the 
USA (about 800 Billion $ for 2023) and use it to fight climate change 
for a few years. That’s a tough sell, but one billionaire near the top 
of the heap has about one third of that amount, so the top three or four 
billionaires could match that amount. Utopian, I know, but times are 
getting very desperate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU0c1oKyauQ

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/[ Get it... this is e//ditors' pick  Best Books of 2022//  - Amazon site ]/
*Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires 
Hardcover – September 6, 2022*
by Douglas Rushkoff  (Author)
Editors' pick  Best Books of 2022
Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Kirkus and Literary Hub

The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave 
us all behind.

Five mysterious billionaires summoned theorist Douglas Rushkoff to a 
desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive the “Event”: 
the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to 
understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a 
Silicon Valley–style certainty that they and their cohort can break the 
laws of physics, economics, and morality to escape a disaster of their 
own making―as long as they have enough money and the right technology.

In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset 
in science and technology through its current expression in missions to 
Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse. In a dozen urgent, 
electrifying chapters, he confronts tech utopianism, the datafication of 
all human interaction, and the exploitation of that data by 
corporations. Through fascinating characters―master programmers who want 
to remake the world from scratch as if redesigning a video game and 
bankers who return from Burning Man convinced that incentivized 
capitalism is the solution to environmental disasters―Rushkoff explains 
why those with the most power to change our current trajectory have no 
interest in doing so. And he shows how recent forms of anti-mainstream 
rebellion―QAnon, for example, or meme stocks―reinforce the same 
destructive order.

This mind-blowing work of social analysis shows us how to transcend the 
landscape The Mindset created―a world alive with algorithms and 
intelligences actively rewarding our most selfish tendencies―and 
rediscover community, mutual aid, and human interdependency. In a 
thundering conclusion, Survival of the Richest argues that the only way 
to survive the coming catastrophe is to ensure it doesn’t happen in the 
first place.

https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Richest-Escape-Fantasies-Billionaires/dp/0393881067/ref=sr_1_1

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March 5, 2014:
MSNBC's Ed Schultz declares that he was wrong to support the Keystone XL 
pipeline.

http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/watch/i-was-wrong-ed-says-dont-build-pipeline-183554627935

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