I take it as an interesting "follow what they do, not what they say" commentary that these UHNWI's, despite the overwhelmingly asymmetrical power they wield in

I take it as an interesting "follow what they do, not what they say" commentary that these UHNWI's, despite the overwhelmingly asymmetrical power they wield in the economy and politics, are voting no confidence in the capitalist model they themselves sit upon the apex of. So capitalism as currently practiced for them is a convenient fig leaf for a non-cooperating internal model they run and operate off of in their own minds, until it blows up from its internal contradictions and they need to sit it out until it blows over? Even the most self-sufficient retreats I've read about I estimate can only last about a generation on their own before their tech base rapidly dissolves, and the residents face a harsh decline. As our civilizational complexity and population density increases, the challenges facing our species keep creeping up the effects' time horizon. It's already a Red Queen's race for all but the biggest retreats to outlast these types of large-scale disruptions. If you really want to prep, then you build for redundancy, you build for the long-term (decades, centuries, millennia, not days, weeks, years), you build for positive sum, win-win outcomes, you build for continuous striving towards post-scarcity, inclusively across as many people as there are resources for. That level of preparedness is nearly impossible to kill, is self-regenerating across generations, with no retreat-building necessary because the "retreats" are all over the place.