There was a time when success in America was synonymous with building America. The great titans of industry, love ’em or hate ’em, left their mark on this nation—in steel, oil, and rails, but also in the libraries, universities, and hospitals that still bear their names.
They understood that their fortunes were forged in the crucible of American opportunity, and with that came a profound, unspoken duty to reinvest in the nation that made them.
That sacred pact, the bond between success and national loyalty, is now being quietly and systematically broken. A new class of elite, enriched beyond the wildest dreams of those earlier titans, has embraced a different philosophy.
It is a corrosive, globalist creed that sees patriotism as provincial and national borders as inconvenient obstacles. They view the American system not as a foundation to be fortified, but as a launchpad from which to escape, leaving the rest of us behind to clean up their mess.
From ‘New York Post’:
Call it the billionaire tech-bro’s dilemma. You can only buy so many mansions, jets and yachts, so what’s next? Apparently, building your own city.
Venture capitalists want to build their own tech utopias, and have been cutting deals with governments, mainly in lesser economically developed countries, to start building luxury towers and golf courses in de-regulated zones where, in some cases, they get to decide what’s legal.
It is “borne out of a dissatisfaction with the current political systems,” according to Mark Lutter, founder of the non-profit Charter Cities Institute, a non-profit which seeks to “empower new cities with better governance to lift tens of millions of people out of poverty.”
This is the sound of the arsonist complaining about the smoke. For decades, the usual suspects of Silicon Valley—men like Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and Mark Andreessen, who are bankrolling these projects—have gleefully bankrolled the political arsonists who systematically dismantled our great American cities.
They funded the politicians who turned San Francisco into a dystopian hellscape of crime and squalor. They championed the open-border policies that have overwhelmed our communities. They enforced the cultural orthodoxies that replaced merit with DEI and common sense with woke nonsense.
After plundering the American economy for their unimaginable wealth, they now look upon the wreckage they helped create and declare themselves “dissatisfied.” Their solution isn’t to help fix the home they broke. It’s to cut and run.
The New Globalist Fiefdoms
Look no further than their destinations. They aren’t building new hubs of innovation in the American heartland. They are fleeing to places like Honduras, where the “Prospera” project allows them to establish their own laws and an arbitration system run over the internet.
Or to the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, where another bitcoin billionaire is building “Destiny,” a city governed like a glorified Home Owner’s Association, where only wealthy property owners get a say.
These are not cities; they are private fiefdoms. They are tax havens and regulatory shelters designed for a new global aristocracy that wants all the benefits of wealth with none of the civic responsibility. It is a return to a feudal order, where the super-rich live in fortified, luxurious enclaves, completely detached from the laws, culture, and fate of any single nation.
Of course, in these new kingdoms, there’s no room for genuine faith. Why would there be, when the founders believe they’ve achieved godhood themselves? As the founder of Destiny smugly told the Post, “The whole point is that you don’t need a God, so to speak.”
An Arrogance Destined to Fail
Even their attempts to build these utopias here at home, like the “California Forever” project, reveal the same elitist impulse. And you have to almost admire the sheer audacity of it all. They plan to wall off a section of the very state their politics have ruined to create an insulated paradise, separate from the decay they fueled. It is the ultimate act of hypocrisy: a gated community for the architects of the open society.
But there is a reason these utopian dreams so often crumble into dust. The cautionary tale of Akon City in Senegal, a futuristic Wakanda that now sits as a half-built reception hall, is a perfect parable.
These visionaries, for all their genius in coding and venture capital, understand nothing of what truly builds a civilization. They think a society can be engineered like a software update, with luxury condos and crypto as the currency.
And they are spectacularly, profoundly wrong. Real communities are not built on renderings and regulations written by billionaires. They are built on shared faith, traditional values, and a common love of country. They are forged by people who stay, who invest, who serve, and who sacrifice for the home they love.
While these tech lords try to build their hollow fantasies on foreign shores, true patriots will continue to do the hard work of preserving the real thing, right here in America.
Key Takeaways
- Tech elites are abandoning the American cities their policies helped ruin.
- Billionaires are creating private kingdoms overseas with their own laws.
- This globalist exodus is a betrayal of American principles and civic duty.
Sources: New York Post
