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发帖数: 38600 | 1 Panicked super rich buying boltholes with private airstrips to escape if
poor rise up
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/panicked-super-rich-buy
Super rich hedge fund managers are buying 'secret boltholes' where they can
hideout in the event of civil uprising against growing inequality, it has
been claimed.
Nervous financiers from across the globe have begun purchasing landing
strips, homes and land in areas such as New Zealand so they can flee should
people rise up.
With growing inequality and riots such as those in London in 2011 and in
Ferguson and other parts of the USA last year, many financial leaders fear
they could become targets for public fury.
Robert Johnson, president of the Institute of New Economic Thinking, told
people at the World Economic Forum in Davos that many hedge fund managers
were already planning their escapes.
He said: “I know hedge fund managers all over the world who are buying
airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand because they think they need
a getaway."
GettyAustralian outbackHideaway: Rich people are plotting to escape to
remote parts of the world Mr Johnson, said the economic situation could soon
become intolerable as even in the richest countries inequality was
increasing.
He said: "People need to know there are possibilities for their children –
that they will have the same opportunity as anyone else.
"There is a wicked feedback loop. Politicians who get more money tend to use
it to get more even money."
He added: "I think the rich are worried and they should be worried. I mean
inequality, why does it matter?
"Most people have heard the Oxfam statistics that now we’ve got 80, the 80
richest people in the world, having more wealth that the bottom three-point-
five billion, and very soon we’ll get a situation where that one percent,
one percent of the richest people have more wealth than everybody else, the
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