What do they know? World's billionaires are building bunkers and assembling fortresses outside their mansions
Daily MailHere's how the rich are preparing for the worst and how to prep on a budget Some elites are paying for 'golden visas' to secluded nations like New Zealand 'Doomsday prepping' used to be seen as a hobby relegated to the paranoid fringe — but ordinary Americans spent a staggering $11 billion on survival items, just last year, from April 2022 to April 2023. And OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman once let slip that he and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel have an 'arrangement' in case the world is ending: If things hit the fan, Altman said in 2016, the pair would lay low at one of Thiel's properties in New Zealand. In 2022, a local community council on New Zealand's South Island blocked Thiel's plans to carve his majestic fortified lair into the landscape beside historically protected Lake Wanaka. Pictured: A swimming pool in the survival condo Doomsday bunkers have been shipped from the US across New Zealand, there's bunkers in Hamilton, Hanmer Springs and Wanaka More and more uber-wealthy people have been buying islands — or at least big chunks of them — in recent years.
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