Coiled in the gilded echo chambers of Davos and Silicon Valley, the ultra-rich preach "build back better" with the fervour of televangelists. Open borders? Climate migration? Debt-fuelled utopias? All part of the grand plan to "save" us plebs from ourselves. But when the bill comes due — crime waves crashing like tsunamis, economies wheezing on life support — these architects of tomorrow are quietly cashing out. Not for a modest cabin in the woods, mind you, but for fortress enclaves patrolled by ex-SEALs, ringed by Israeli radar, and priced in the nine figures. As Michael Snyder's November 25, 2025, dispatch lays bare (link below), places like Florida's Stone Creek Ranch and Indian Creek Village aren't just homes — they're bolt holes, Plan B redoubts where the elite can sip vintage Bordeaux while the world they helped destabilise burns. It's a delicious irony: The very policies they championed, globalist tinkering that widened inequality, lax borders inviting unchecked inflows, endless fiat printing inflating away the middle class—are now the inferno they flee.
Once upon a time, the elite hobnobbed in Manhattan penthouses or LA hillsides, rubbing elbows with the riffraff for that authentic "vibrant" vibe. No more. Post-2020's cocktail of riots, inflation, and migrant surges, security trumps schmoozing. Snyder spotlights Stone Creek Ranch: A 37-home Delray Beach oasis where Mark Wahlberg just dropped $37 million on a megamansion, and Rockstar's Russ Weiner is eyeing $43 million in pads. Entry? Rigorous FBI-level background checks. Perimeter? 24/7 armed guards — mostly ex-cops and military — ensuring your only uninvited guests are the egrets.
Then there's Indian Creek Village, the "Billionaire Bunker" on a Biscayne Bay isle: Jeff Bezos ($79M pad), Tom Brady ($17M), Ivanka Trump — 89 residents, 19 tactical cops with full-auto rifles, and radar detecting intruders half a mile out. Cameras lurk in hedges; a command centre tracks every twitch. As CUNY's Setha Low quips, "The wealthier you become, the more you want perfect security." X chatter echoes the dread: One user mocks, "Billionaire bunker boom... 12k year pole shift cataclysm incoming," while another ties it to Bezos's bunker renos.
This isn't Florida fever. It's global. Meta's Mark Zuckerberg's $300M Kauai compound? A 1,400-acre fortress with blast doors, food forests, and a 5,000-sq-ft underground bunker — complete with escape tunnels. Bill Gates? Bunkers under multiple mansions, including a $130M Wyoming spread with moats and machine-gun turrets. Peter Thiel's New Zealand bolt hole? A $13.5M ranch on 193 acres, visa secured via "exceptional talent" (code for doomsday prep). And the crown jewel: Virginia's Aerie, a $300M members-only doomsday dome opening 2026 — robotic med bays, infinity pools, AI concierge — for $50M buy-ins.
X buzz? A Netflix rec for "Billionaire Bunker" soap opera, or quips like "This is clearly a billionaire bunker. The AI knows." It's meme fodder, but the trend's real: Bunkers "becoming very common worldwide among the elite," per survival consultant Angelo Camp. Why? "Insurance in case the world really goes to hell."
Snyder nails the trigger: Crime's epidemic. NYC's Malba? Midnight "takeovers" — mobs torching cars, assaulting guards — up fivefold in shutoffs, delinquencies at 7.1% (credit cards), 3% (autos), repossessions hitting 2.2M in 2025. Wisconsin? South American crews looting luxury homes via wooded backyards. It's not random; it's blowback.
The elite's fingerprints? Decades of Davos dogma: Globalisation hollowed factories, spiking inequality (top 1% holds 32% US wealth, up from 23% in 1989). Lax borders? Post-2021 surges (3M+ encounters) strained cities, fuelling riots like NYC's or Wisconsin's ghost towns of gutted homes. Endless debt? Fed's $9T binge juiced assets for the rich, crushed the rest — delinquencies echo 2008. They jet to COP summits preaching "equity," then bolt to bunkers when the "vibrant" future arrives.
X whispers the rage: "Jeff Bezos splashes cash on luxe upgrades for 3 'Billionaire Bunker' pads... Pumping up comfort, or just flexing?" Or, "The billionaire bunker" as Netflix escapism—because reality's too raw.
Here's the gut-punch: They'll miss the harvest. When policies boomerang, hyperinflation from green mandates, civil unrest from identity fractures, supply chains snapped by "sustainable" whims, they'll be underground, streaming symphonies while we scrape for scraps. Snyder's family in the dark? Peanut butter dinners amid shutoffs, that's the "inclusive" world they engineered, sans the escape pod.
It's class warfare, self-inflicted. The elite aren't fleeing a virus; they're quarantining from their own virus: Ideologies that atomize society for profit, then privatise the fallout. As NYT's 2025 dispatch on "tech bro retreats" muses, these lairs are "absurd in their inaccessibility" — mirrors to a system rigged for flight. CNN's bunker tour? Operating theatres and bowling alleys, because nothing says "atonement" like apocalypse ping-pong.
But, there isa problem these globalists cannot solve: the protection, guys with guns and combat skills, can simply take everything over when the time comes, and these elites will not be able to do anything about it.
https://michaeltsnyder.substack.com/p/the-elite-are-moving-into-high-security