This is an English translation of an article I wrote for a German magazine. The article looks into the post apocalyptic strategies the wealthy and ultrarich are focusing on. Main point: The rich are as afraid of the collapse of society as anyone else, but their means to face the calamity are on another level.
IMO the one thing they can’t escape is themselves. I saw an illustration of one of these survival bunkers, which went ten floors down, with the bottom floor being a huge armory. My first thought was, so it’s going to be nine storeys packed to the brim with entitled sociopaths, sitting on a massive pile of guns?
I’m pretty sure I’ll last longer outside with the cannibals lol
Thought you typed cannabis at first and was like “well, yeah”
You know it’ll be fucking hilarious if it happened. These rich assholes are building bunkers and surrounding themselves with ex-marines and survivalists and they somehow believe they’re not the weakest link.
Money ain’t mean shit post-apocalypse.
Yeah, true. You can spend money on resources/people but once you’re there if you don’t have an Economic system there’s no reason to keep working for someone who’s money doesn’t exist anymore.
i think there are multiple ways to ensure that people will still work for you in such a senario, i doubt they are that stupid that they will rely on cash in the apocalypse. If we can think that wouldn’t work out so can they. There are other commodities that you can secure and make sure you are the only one that knows how to get access to them combined with having a few trusted guards that are given a lot of power when working under you which they wish to keep, you can get a lot of people to stay in line with limiting their resources and having a small core of loyal armed men. Before inventing money we still had people rich in other ways that had a bunch of people working under them, it’s not going to be very different after the collapse. Although i do agree with the statement that a bunker unless it’s to protect yourself from a nuke or whatever or long term radiation is not a good idea especially when shared with strangers.
There are other commodities that you can secure and make sure you are the only one that knows how to get access to them
This sounds like an excellent way to spend the last minutes of your life having your fingernails pulled off.
By that logic people would be pulling their fingernails now in order to get money out of them, what’s the difference?
The difference is, they aren’t locked in a hole underground with them.
i have been locked in the same building with my ceo making a tiny fraction of what he is making my whole life like most people, i would never pull their finger nails to get money as long as i get enough money to survive, not because i pity them or anything but because im not a psychopath and as long as it’s not completely necessary for my survival i wouldn’t do something like that. Like most people.
you are talking about a hypothetical scenario of an apocalypse but you fail to realize that you are already living it, your bunker is your country, the rich people are the same as your scenario and you are being taken advantage of just like in your hypothetical. If you was to do something you would be doing it now
If they hide in bunkers, they will just have a much closer view of their very own, very intimate, civil war.
It doesn’t matter what they come up with, it doesn’t matter how loyal their guards are. Someone in that bunker will one day wake up, and decide the old man needs to go.
I read a book by China Mieville called “Iron Council” which put it best: “History is dripping. And red. With the blood of those who trusted the uncorruptible.”
None of these will be feasible, because they didn’t invest in the technology for it, because they were too busy trying to find ways to nickel and dime the poor
I’m always confused why people think the rich are the ones who will go to Mars. It would be a huge dampener on their lifestyle, and risky ensuring supply lines. There are no ski resorts, yachts, or big game hunting ranges on Mars!
No, they won’t be the ones going. They want to send the rest of us in order to outsource the more damaging production 1 step further. Just like we have Ugandans deal with our fast fashion waste and social media moderation now, but even further out of sight and out of mind. It will be an economic and/or literal prison colony. The island bunkers are just a stopgap until they can find a way to not share the planet with as many plebs ruining their view.
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Let’s just get Elon Musk to Mars and decide from there.
What about getting rid of the 99%? Sounds like a more plausible final solution for me.
There’s a really good interview with Rushkoff on the You Are Not So Smart podcast, gives more context to the story and has some great info.
Only one of these things is currently possible
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It sounds like they know that when the fall happens their money will not save them.
