Re: Could there be a Gnarly Man in current times?

On Wed, 8 May 2024, Chris Buckley wrote:

On 2024-05-08, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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On Tue, 7 May 2024, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
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and with modern technology and
communication being what it is, are there ways he could he stay a member
of modern society and also avoid attention?

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Maintaining fake identities is becoming ever more difficult, I
think.

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This to me is the most interesting part of the puzzle. Would an immortal
be able to hide his secret with modern technology, ID:s and all?
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If the person stuck to remote, rural villages, I see no problem. But
living in a city being a part of society?
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I guess, if you are immortal and you don't have to eat, it would be a lot
easier perhaps. Then you could just live as a crazy guy on the street in a
warm location.

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What? How many millions of undocumented immigrants are living in the US
now?

Yes, that's kind of what I had in mind. Good point.

Another road to victory might be the extreme opposite in case the person
manages to become a billionaire. That might make hiding and changing
identities a lot easier.

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It makes some things easier, but others harder.  Maintaining usable
access to all that money while being part of society is tough.  By
now, it probably has to be illegally (on top of the identity issues)
and money transfers (changing from one form of the wealth to another)
are difficult with the methodology having to constantly change over
the decades.
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Chris

I'm not so sure. Plenty of russian oligarchs are playing around the world, despite being russian oligarchs. The founder of Ikea also comes to mind, having very little official control, but having layers and layers of companies and non-profits in a very convoluted structure.
What many big time criminals in sweden do is to find goalies to front for them.
I don't think it is difficult at all if you are a billionaire, and especially if you got started before the current surveillance era. Getting started today anonymously is of course much more difficult in the west, but creative utilization of various direct or indirect authoritarian regimes I think it should be possible.