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I think most people feel a lot of anxiety over the future. Any members of the super rich who are donating a lot of their money to social causes, A. Don't remain

I think most people feel a lot of anxiety over the future. Any members of the super rich who are donating a lot of their money to social causes, A. Don't remain super rich, B. Are probably less likely to have ever have been super rich, and C. Aren't reported on in these kinds of articles. What you're left with are the people focused on "me and mine" over "them and theirs", and couple that with the vague unease most of us have over the future...you get this. For perspective, I've known working class preppers too. Lots of survival skill practice, storage dedicated to large amounts of shelf stable foods and water, etc. They're just not as 'interesting' to warrant as much reporting, as even though they're spending the same percentage of their income on it as the super rich, it's not as extravagant.

api 5y ago
The super rich are also subject to the same cynicism as you and me. Some don't donate to social issues or try to fix things because they feel like sure they could throw money at the problem but nothing would change because the problems are just intractable. The super rich are just people with a lot of money. You'd find that some traits are distributed differently from the general population, but they are not cognitively superhuman or exempt from anything humans normally think. The super rich also get conned, join cults, jump on cultural or ideological bandwagons that eventually look embarrassing, have mental illness, get addicted to substances or behaviors, etc.