Exit Earth: How a Climate Bunker, a Crypto State, and a Designer Gene Line Are Preparing for a World Without ‘Us’

Let’s start in New Zealand.

Not the tourist ad version, but the real estate listings—the ones circled in red by tech billionaires like Peter Thiel. He bought citizenship there in 12 days flat. Why?
Because when the world burns, you don’t want solutions.
You want altitude, isolation, and access to private airstrips.

Enter: the survival bunker boom.

Deep under Wyoming, in repurposed missile silos, luxury apocalypse condos are selling like hotcakes—complete with hydroponics, biometric security, and an on-call psychiatrist.

The elites aren’t just prepping for climate collapse.
They’re commodifying it.

The Crypto-State: Sovereignty as a Service™

Meanwhile, libertarians and techno-futurists have a new dream: exit governance entirely.

  • Seasteading: Artificial island nations outside international law

  • Bitnation: Blockchain-based “identity nations” you can join with a smart contract

  • Liberland: A libertarian micronation declared in a legal gray zone between Croatia and Serbia

  • Network States (à la Balaji Srinivasan): Online-first nations where citizenship is a Discord invite and territory is optional

It’s not just fantasy.
It’s the beginning of cloud feudalism.

You won’t vote. You’ll stake tokens.
You won’t have rights. You’ll have terms of service.

And if you don’t like the rules?

Don’t worry. There’s no appeals court—just a DAO with admin privileges.

Designer Genes, Designer Classes

In the meantime, up in the most sterile, white-lit labs imaginable, CRISPR, embryo screening, and biohacking culture are laying the foundation for the next great stratification:
genetic class hierarchy.

Forget yachts.
The new luxury is your lineage.

Want your kid to have better memory retention? More height? Less susceptibility to addiction?
Just check the boxes.
As long as you can pay.

And if you can’t?
Well… some people just weren’t optimized for success.

This is the long game of posthuman capitalism:

  • Exit the public

  • Exit the planet

  • Exit the species

Not to save humanity.
To curate a new one.

Meanwhile, Back on Earth…

  • Public housing crumbles

  • Climate refugees drown

  • Entire ecosystems collapse

  • And governments hesitate over every dollar of aid
    ...while billionaires race to patent the blueprints for humanity’s exclusive sequel

You’re not invited.
But your labor helped fund it.

The Big Lie

You were told tech would liberate you.
But it’s liberating them—from accountability, from mortality, from solidarity.

This isn’t resilience.
It’s secession.

The rich no longer fear collapse.
They fear being stuck here with the rest of us.

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