Billionaires are building bunkers and buying islands—are they prepping for apocalypse or pioneering a new feudalism?
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In December 2023, WIRED reported that Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire CEO of Meta and one of the foremost architects of today's social-media-dominated world, has been buying up large swathes of the Hawaiian island Kauai.
Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are constructing a gigantic compound—known as Ko'olau…