Infinitely prefer to domesticate them here.
#LIFEBOAT THE WALLS PLUS#
Plus of course a whole bunch easier to propose interesting local investments while they are here fly fishing, than having to traipse over to Honolulu for a whole day of golf. Before we get all Downton Abbey about it, we’re a service economy. Instead they will bring their rich families to consume our spectacular wines, hire our guides, and engage our interior designers, artists and landscapers. I certainly prefer individuals to companies – they are easier to hold to account in the media.Īnd I certainly like the myth-reinforcement of our security/isolation: any land they buy as essentially retirement homes sure won’t have industrial-scale dairy farms on them. There are plenty of other examples who have bought into our wineries, and doing a tremendous job for our global reputation through their own marketing. Others like James Cameron have ensured that the Wellington film industry doesn’t stand or fall on Peter Jackson. Peter Thiel is following in the footsteps of some like Mutt Lange who has brought his private capital to form a larger conservation effort than any local individual has ever done in New Zealand. I have mixed feelings on taming global capital into retirement here. Seriously though, how do we feel about becoming a lifeboat for the super-rich to run out on the problems that they created?īest comment on that New Yorker article about the super-rich moving to NZ in a doomsday scenario, by /vFWimbMq2d Wassamatter Peter – isn’t Trump going to make America great again? The paper was told that Thiel didn’t need it because he was a citizen.
The newspaper had inquired about why Thiel hadn’t gotten official approval to buy the property under foreign ownership laws. The revelation only came after the newspaper started to investigate a 477-acre property that Thiel had purchased in the country in 2015. Today, The New Zealand Herald is reporting that Peter Thiel has citizenship in New Zealand, a fact previously unknown to most in Silicon Valley. Some, like Peter Thiel, are even getting citizenship. The super rich are worried about the poor grabbing “pitchforks” to overthrow the wealthy, and it turns out these elites aren’t just buying homes. The New Yorker has published a fascinating article about Silicon Valley tech titans who are buying up property in New Zealand as they prepare for the apocalypse. Peter Thiel Gains New Zealand Citizenship as Tech Elites Prep for Doomsday Turns out that Trump lackey Peter Thiel is one of these preppers: He said, “This is no longer about a handful of freaks worried about the world ending.” He laughed, and added, “Unless I’m one of those freaks.” … New Zealand’s reputation for attracting doomsayers is so well known in the hedge-fund manager’s circle that he prefers to differentiate himself from earlier arrivals. “They’re asking, ‘Where in New Zealand is not going to be long-term affected by rising sea levels?’ ” “You can fly a private jet into Queenstown or a private jet into Wanaka, and then you can grab a helicopter and it can take you and land you at your property.” American clients have also sought strategic advice. “Definitely, helipads are a big one,” he said. “It’s not like you need to build a bunker under your front lawn, because you’re several thousand miles away from the White House,” he said. But Peter Campbell, the managing director of Triple Star Management, a New Zealand construction firm, told me that, by and large, once his American clients arrive, they decide that underground shelters are gratuitous. In the first ten months of 2016, foreigners bought nearly fourteen hundred square miles of land in New Zealand, more than quadruple what they bought in the same period the previous year, according to the government.īefore my trip, I had wondered if I was going to be spending more time in luxury bunkers. In fact, the influx had begun well before Trump’s victory.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Johnson told the audience, “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.” It’s long and covers many topics, but NZ features:īy January, 2015, Johnson was sounding the alarm: the tensions produced by acute income inequality were becoming so pronounced that some of the world’s wealthiest people were taking steps to protect themselves. Some of the wealthiest people in America-in Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond-are getting ready for the crackup of civilization. Very interesting piece in The New Yorker:
0 kommentar(er)
