Furguson Scared The Super - Rich So Bad They're Planning Exits
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According to a speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Ferguson and Occupy absolutely terrified the world’s super-rich, and now they’re buying airstrips and farms in remote locations to escape to.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which was held between January 21-24, over 2,500 leaders in the fields of business, international politics, academia and journalism met to discuss major global challenges, including inequality, terrorism and climate change.
The WEF came to a consensus that the US was looking at upward growth—co-chair Roberto Egydio Setubal reported that after a run of hard years, “now we are more optimistic, because the US economy is coming back. We will see better results in the next five years than we saw in the last five” (via), and that US economic growth was on track to outpace the world’s for the first time since 1999. Though slowing growth in China and Europe is still expected to put a backdrag on US growth, Caryle Group co-founder David Rubenstein underlined that “right now the US seems to be the greatest place in the world to invest” (via).
However, paranoia about the world economy seems to be accelerating among some. According to former hedge fund director Robert Johnson, who spoke to a packed room, the global super-rich are hard at work planning their outs if the world breaks—with protests like Occupy and the Ferguson unrest being examples what mass civil unrest could look like.
“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,” Johnson said.
While multiple speakers pointed to the Ferguson riots as a game-changer, others suggested that they would be quickly forgotten: “We saw Occupy flare up and then fade like many others like it,” said UN development head and former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark. “The problem movements like these have is stickability. The challenge is for them to build structures that are ongoing; to sustain these new voices.” Clark expressed concern about the “new voices” activated by the Ferguson unrest, hoping that they could be incorporated into the political process.
Best of luck to anybody planning on escaping the world. Unless they’re working on floating space stations, a la Elysium, I don’t think there’s truly going to be anywhere safe to go.
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