What is mindset?

The belief that with money and technology it is possible to solve the problems created by money and technology; that nature and humanity are inferior beings, pieces that must be controlled.

Who wields that philosophy?

Technology billionaires like Elon Musk, who aims to colonize Mars, or Peter Thiel, who aspires to reverse the aging process and build a country in the ocean, or Bezos, who wants to emigrate to space.

And Zuckerberg takes refuge in the metaverse.

Artificial intelligence developers Sam Altman and Ray Kurzweil have set out to upload their minds to supercomputers.

Is the economic elite preparing to transcend the human condition?

Tech billionaires know that their businesses are leading the world to collapse and they want to use technology to escape the rest of us; but we all end up adopting that mentality, we want to earn money to go to a better place.

And the billionaires, on a planetary scale.

Their dream is to leave or isolate themselves from this messy world full of poor people and violence, threatened by climate change and large-scale migration. And each of them owns so many industries that it’s impossible not to be surrounded by their dark vision of the world.

We admire them.

Yes, because they show that it is possible. Jeff Bezos went to space by himself, an egomaniacal waste but a demonstration that mentality works.

The power of excessive money.

When Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg challenge each other to a fight, they assume the role of gods, as if Silicon Valley were Olympus where Zeus and Apollo fight while we watch from below, they are like characters from a Marvel comic.

A crazy fantasy?

They have no qualifications in most of the areas in which they have industries. Bill Gates allocates part of what he earns to his foundation, but he earns it by destroying the world and investing that aid poorly.

Because it says?

To combat malaria, he distributed mosquito nets throughout Africa that were used as fishing nets because those people are hungry.

They are all very afraid.

They have access to privileged information. The Koch brothers, major financiers of climate denialism, are looking for ways to make money from climate migrants, rising seas, and building luxury bunkers.

You were hired by a group of tech billionaires for a consultation.

They saw the end of the world as inevitable and wanted it to help them survive what they called the event: environmental collapse, biological or nuclear war, or the unstoppable virus that ruins everything.

Terrified lost.

It is as if paradise were for them to isolate themselves in a digital bunker.

Curious that people with so much access to culture are so rude.

They have only developed a part of their mind. Many of them had just entered university when an idea occurred to them and they found an investor, they are not trained people, nor supermen. Zuckerberg is obsessed with Caesar Augustus, cuts his hair like him, and begins his meetings with the battle cry: “Domination!”

Are there many luxury bunkers?

Yes, and fortresses, private islands. Just as I tried to explain to the billionaires, this type of thing doesn’t work, in the event of a catastrophe pathogens enter, if there has been radiation the water supply is contaminated, the indoor garden grows fungi, one cannot isolate oneself from the world.

What surprised you most about these bunkered billionaires?

One said that he was going to have a hot water pool and I asked him where he was going to buy the spare parts, so the man pointed out: “A lot of spare parts.”

They are not very smart.

Exactly, it’s not about them being evil and leaving us behind, they’re crazy! They think they’re going to survive without us, it’s the mentality of a 12-year-old child. Elon Musk is not a hero, he is pathetic.

Isn’t there a glimmer of conscience, of preserving what we have?

The thing is that their idea is to continue growing exponentially, advance at any price, they can’t stop, it’s like an immense technological pyramid scam. A technological future dependent on rare earths is not viable.

80% of young people want to be rich and famous. Where do you see hope?

In learning to laugh, that’s why I wrote the book. If we can start laughing at these people maybe we will choose something else.