Billionaires are prepared to leave the world behind
It would be hard to exaggerate what is at stake in this anxious and uncertain historical moment. In Europe and the Anglosphere, ideological polarisation is fomenting political violence. Popular anger at governing elites is coming to a boil. AI has begun to eliminate jobs across multiple industries, not just for symbolic thinkers — data analysts, coders, content creators, translators, tax preparers, accountants — but for anyone whose work can be done by robots. And tech multibillionaires are behaving like masters of the universe on a gambling spree in a cosmic casino, wagering humanity’s future on a roll of the dice.
