It's one thing for the tin foil wearing on head types of folks to prepare for doomsday, but it's altogether another when the world's wealthiest begin to prepare for the breakdown of civilization. But that's exactly what some of the richest individuals are doing.

The New Yorker reported this week Reddit's CEO Steve Huffman is one such prepper. "He is less focussed on a specific threat—a quake on the San Andreas, a pandemic, a dirty bomb—than he is on the aftermath, 'the temporary collapse of our government and structures,' as he puts it. 'I own a couple of motorcycles. I have a bunch of guns and ammo. Food. I figure that, with that, I can hole up in my house for some amount of time,'" he said. "I think, to some degree, we all collectively take it on faith that our country works, that our currency is valuable, the peaceful transfer of power—that all of these things that we hold dear work because we believe they work. While I do believe they're quite resilient, and we've been through a lot, certainly we're going to go through a lot more," he said.

Huffman's not alone in the country club of wealthy survivalist preppers. Former Facebook product manager Antonio García Martínez purchased a homestead piece of property on an island in the Pacific Northwest and furnished it with generators, solar panels, and cases of ammunition.

Martínez  told the NY's Evan Osnos, "When society loses a healthy founding myth, it descends into chaos." He added, "All these dudes think that one guy alone could somehow withstand the roving mob…No, you're going to need to form a local militia. You just need so many things to actually ride out the apocalypse."