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.
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.
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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