There doesn’t need to be collusion if it is in everyone’s self interest.
If it is in the interest of wealth preservation to buy and then control land which will be less affected by climate change, investments will go there.
It’s not a huge leap from there to ‘walled utopia’ especially if the landmass is small.
Maybe it also ‘makes sense’ in someone’s calculus to cut social and educational spending. Maybe this calculus is present in multiple countries.
There doesn’t need to be collusion if it is in everyone’s self interest.
If it is in the interest of wealth preservation to buy and then control land which will be less affected by climate change, investments will go there.
It’s not a huge leap from there to ‘walled utopia’ especially if the landmass is small.
Maybe it also ‘makes sense’ in someone’s calculus to cut social and educational spending. Maybe this calculus is present in multiple countries.