Kim Dotcom (aka Kim Schmitz), the Finnish-German-Kiwi Internet pirate, has decided that the USA is going to go the way of Venezuela. Dotcom is
piloting a new crypto-powered
ecosystem,
K.im, and his own branded KimCoin, to reward content creators. This month, the
Megaupload and
Mega founder, Assange ally,
Deep State foe, and founder of the
Internet Party has also been writing scary tweets about the future of the US and global economy.
Dotcom has an axe to grind, because his companies' copyright violations led in
July 2018 to a New Zealand court ruling that he could face extradition to the United States for racketeering, money laundering, fraud, and criminal copyright charges. While this gives him a motive to trash talk the US, and
he is fundraising for a new project to cover his legal bills, Dotcom really believes that America's economy is about to go bust.
He has thought so for awhile. Originally, the hacker was based on the top floor of the five-star Grand Hyatt Hotel in Hong Kong. But Dotcom moved to New Zealand because he felt it was the best place to start and raise a family during and after World War III. As he
put it:
"You wouldn't want to be stuck in a penthouse at the top of a hotel tower when it's end days. ... That's why I was looking for a place. And I thought that if I had somewhere in the South Island, shielded by mountain ranges on both sides, I would install a really sophisticated solar power plant. I was thinking if I had something like that, you could survive. New Zealand strategically is the safest spot in the world. It has everything that is required to sit it out and start again."
Dotcom is not alone. The very rich are talking about the end of the world and
building bunkers in preparation. They see the future just like the
backwoods and
doomsday cult preppers, except
billionaires build nicer bunkers.
