Mark Sussman & Nikita Petrov – The Billionaire Class's Doomsday Plans
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
0:00 Intro
1:28 Biden’s abysmal debate performance
5:01 Billionaire survivalists
12:53 So you made it to your luxury bunker. Now what?
16:22 The postapocalyptic war of all against all
21:29 Is the very existence of billionaires the real doomsday scenario?
26:20 The doomsday tax
32:24 Will the bunker dwellers have a reason to live?
40:39 The problem of government after nuclear holocaust
46:08 The literal bunker mentality
52:08 Was Mark responsible for Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall? Who can say for sure?
Recorded June 28, 2024
Links and Readings
Evan Osnos’s 2017 New Yorker piece, “Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich”
Douglas Rushkoff’s book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
Douglas Rushkoff’s Guardian piece, “The Super-Rich ‘Preppers’ Planning to Save Themselves from the Apocalypse”
Ingrid Schmidt’s Hollywood Reporter piece, “Billionaires’ Survivalist Bunkers Go Absolutely Bonkers with Fiery Moats and Water Cannons”
Andre Mayer’s CBC News piece, “From Luxury Bunkers to Tactical Vehicles, the Ultra-Rich Are Preparing for the Big One”
Cixin Liu’s trilogy of sci-fi novels, The Three Body Problem
Everybody Loves Raymond complete series DVD box set
Louis van Gasteren’s documentary, Now Do You Get Why I Am Crying?
Paul Celan’s Selected Poems and Prose, translated by John Felstiner
Tadeusz Borowski’s book, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman
Glenn, Nikita, and Mark’s previous conversation, “The Ethics of Giving in the Very Long Term”
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| 0:46.0 | That was the most depressing thing I have ever seen. |
| 0:49.0 | Like network level, what are we doing, putting this person, never by running for president, on television at all. |
| 0:56.6 | I never watched cable news anymore, but I watched, I turned on the CNN panel after the debate was over. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah, I saw it. |
| 1:04.9 | Unreal. |
| 1:06.3 | Like that whole role of people who are there to be partisan hacks |
| 1:10.8 | are all saying the same thing which is like, |
| 1:14.0 | whoa, this guy can't be president. |
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