Steve Huffman, the thirty-three-year-old co-founder and C. I have a bunch of guns and ammo. I figure that, with that, I can hole up in my house for some amount of time. Survivalism, the practice of preparing for a crackup of civilization, tends to evoke a certain picture: the woodsman in the tinfoil hat, the hysteric with the hoard of beans, the religious doomsayer.
But in recent years survivalism has expanded to more affluent quarters, taking root in Silicon Valley and New York City, among technology executives, hedge-fund managers, and others in their economic cohort. You just need so many things to actually ride out the apocalypse.
In private Facebook groups, wealthy survivalists swap tips on gas masks, bunkers, and locations safe from the effects of climate change. We meet up and have these financial-hacking dinners and talk about backup plans people are doing.
It runs the gamut from a lot of people stocking up on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, to figuring out how to get second passports if they need it, to having vacation homes in other countries that could be escape havens. When Marvin Liao, a former Yahoo executive who is now a partner at Startups, a venture-capital firm, considered his preparations, he decided that his caches of water and food were not enough.
I took classes in archery. The film, released in , depicts a comet striking the Atlantic, and a race to escape the tsunami.
