What to do when plague calls? Retreat to a country mansion and party
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The Decameron
Kathleen Jordan
Netflix
The influential thinker and writer Douglas Rushkoff was once summoned to an audience with five Silicon Valley billionaires. As he recounts in Survival of the Richest, their concern was impending apocalypse – not how they might prevent it, but how to outrun it. The preppers quizzed Rushkoff on threats to humanity and where to build their bunkers. But most crucial was how they could stop their hired security, required to deal with angry mobs storming the proverbial gates, from…
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