¿Un delirio de Yolanda Díaz? De dónde saca que los ricos planean huir en cohetes de la Tierra
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- Díaz spoke of the richest people on the planet preparing “space rockets to escape from Earth” or “fortress mansions”
- Technologist Douglas Rushkoff has described this Silicon Valley ideology in his book ‘The Survival of the Richest’.
- Long-termism or effective altruism are philosophies that have permeated among the richest and that limit their solidarity with those of us who inhabit the planet.
The words of Vice President Yolanda Díaz about “the plan B of the technological elites” have been received by many as a ‘Martian’ idea, a surprising, almost absurd reflection, which is not very clear where it comes from. At least those who have mocked her the most since Saturday must not know where those ideas come from.
“Those immensely rich people are aware, and I quote verbatim, that we are going to hell,” Díaz commented during a Sumar event last weekend. He described that these people have “a very restricted plan, based on fleeing the world, to protect themselves . ”
Escape from the world, how? The vice president responded to this in her story by talking about “space rockets to escape from Earth, the Metaverse and its fortress mansions , for example, in New Zealand.”Where does Díaz’s comment come from?It seems like a tragicomic movie plot; But these ideas have once again circulated in the media (and surely hence Díaz’s comment) on the occasion of the publication in Spanish of technologist Douglas Rushkoff’s book The Survival of the Richest .The Guardian in 2018. There he tells how several millionaires, investors and technology entrepreneurs invited him to a few days to exchange opinions. To Rushkoff’s surprise, the tycoons began to ask him what was the best place to take refuge from a climate cataclysm or if it was true that Google’s chief engineer, Ray Kurzweil, had already obtained the technology to keep his brain and consciousness alive in form of supercomputer.Rushkoff’s hosts seemed to have given the matter quite a bit of thought: “They knew that armed agents would be needed to protect their shelters from the angry masses. But how would they pay the guards after the money became worthless? How to prevent the guards from choosing their own leader?”The ideology of Silicon ValleyThe validity of Rushkoff as a witness can always be questioned, so it is advisable to turn to direct examples. Like that of Peter Thiel, an investor and philosopher who does not believe that democracy and freedom are compatible, not even in taxes and who opposes “the ideology of the inevitable death of each individual.” He has commented several times that he plans to live to be 120 years old. For this he finances several projects, one of them based on blood transfusions from young people. Some time ago he bought land in New Zealand so he could take refuge in the event of a climate catastrophe.
Escape from the world, how? The vice president responded to this in her story by talking about “space rockets to escape from Earth, the Metaverse and its fortress mansions , for example, in New Zealand.”
Where does Díaz’s comment come from?
It seems like a tragicomic movie plot; But these ideas have once again circulated in the media (and surely hence Díaz’s comment) on the occasion of the publication in Spanish of technologist Douglas Rushkoff’s book The Survival of the Richest .
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Rushkoff, in turn, does not invent this argument. He already told it in The Guardian in 2018. There he tells how several millionaires, investors and technology entrepreneurs invited him to a few days to exchange opinions. To Rushkoff’s surprise, the tycoons began to ask him what was the best place to take refuge from a climate cataclysm or if it was true that Google’s chief engineer, Ray Kurzweil, had already obtained the technology to keep his brain and consciousness alive in form of supercomputer.
Rushkoff’s hosts seemed to have given the matter quite a bit of thought: “They knew that armed agents would be needed to protect their shelters from the angry masses. But how would they pay the guards after the money became worthless? How to prevent the guards from choosing their own leader?”
The ideology of Silicon Valley
The validity of Rushkoff as a witness can always be questioned, so it is advisable to turn to direct examples. Like that of Peter Thiel, an investor and philosopher who does not believe that democracy and freedom are compatible, not even in taxes and who opposes “the ideology of the inevitable death of each individual.” He has commented several times that he plans to live to be 120 years old. For this he finances several projects, one of them based on blood transfusions from young people. Some time ago he bought land in New Zealand so he could take refuge in the event of a climate catastrophe.
