It's not just the mega wealthy who do this--see migrants at Calais, inflatable rafts in the Mediterranean, coyotes crossing the desert in Arizona, and boat people in Australia. The places those people are leaving are far more ruined than those for the people in this article.
Turns out lots of people have no problem abandoning their home country when things are shitty and looking for personal gain for themselves in other countries. Globalism says both of these types of migrants are great and not dystopian.
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It's all pretty dystopian. I hope you don't expect me to defend globalism/capitalism.
Weird that you're putting those two together. I'm in favor of capitalism but not globalism.
Too many people--each with infinite greed and desires. Most of them would probably behave just as badly or probably even worse than the current batch in power if they somehow switched places.
Part of the problem is despite all its problems, all the other systems have an even worse record. So I don't think the root cause here is capitalism or even globalism. It's human nature.
I think smallpond is focused on the you-can-be-above-all-consequences-if-you're-rich-enough side of dystopia.
Which, frankly, is the entire point of accumulating power/wealth in the first place. Where there is power of any sort, the ambitious will seek to bend it towards the betterment of their lives and those of their children. As is only proper. All we can do is curtail the excesses.
A world where the rich can ruin countries then change their citizenship like a soiled nappy is pretty dystopian.