Hedge fund managers are reportedly buying airstrips and farms in remote areas because they think they need a getaway.  Credit: Ken Lambert/AP

Hedge fund managers are reportedly buying airstrips and farms in remote areas because they think they need a getaway.
Credit: Ken Lambert/AP

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — With growing inequality and the civil unrest from Ferguson and the Occupy protests fresh in people’s mind, the world’s super rich are already preparing for the consequences. At a packed session in Davos, former hedge fund director Robert Johnson revealed that worried hedge fund managers were already planning their escapes. “I know hedge fund managers all over the world who are buying airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand because they think they need a getaway,” he said.

Johnson, who heads the Institute of New Economic Thinking and was previously managing director at Soros, said societies can tolerate income inequality if the income floor is high enough. But with an existing system […]

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