• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    If you had billions, wouldn’t you have a prepper facility? Even if there were no global warming or political upheaval, it’s common sense when you have money like that.

    “Hey, want to build a doomsday shelter for .0001% of your net worth?”

    “Meh, why not.”

    They don’t necessarily have to see bad times coming is my point.

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      12 hours ago

      No? If I ACTUALLY wanted to ride out through some sort of apocalypse, a bunker ain’t gonna cut it. I would bankroll and actively participate in a fully self-sustaining off-the-grid community. Rich people always forget the second part, probably because they are psychopaths. Remember that article where they were asking about putting shock collars on their bunker security guys? If they literally just got beers with them once a week, they’d probably shoot all the migrants you ask them to. It’s an irony that they consider their time ‘too valuable’ for that, as it turns out that the one thing you can’t buy is a sense of community.

      Of course, I would endeavor to not own several billion dollars of stolen property in the first place, but different strokes.

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      10 hours ago

      I would too, but I would also be worried about the idea of being sealed in. Concrete is cheap. So is welding and thermite.

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      12 hours ago

      You are correct, but also when you look at the aggregate of their behavior and goals (both stated and implied) you have to reach the conclusion that they WANT to use the bunker. Or want a scenario in which it becomes useful.

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        3 hours ago

        The scary part is that you might be wrong, they may not even realize they’re causing it and are just stuck in a loop of “number go up”

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          2 hours ago

          Yeah, I feel like most of them are stuck in ‘number go up’, but I also think that the desire to make your investment ‘worth it’ gets stronger the more money you pour into a bunker system.