FUTURE HUMAN

Survival of the Richest

The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind

(This piece is now the basis of a new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.)

Illustrations: Matt Huynh

Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the…