Billionaire bunkers: How the 1% are preparing for the apocalypse (2019) • Hacker News Board

Re: Billionaire bunkers: How the 1% are preparing for the apocalypse (2019)

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Post by imtringued » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 1:03 PM UTC

leetcrew wrote: post #16

mrtksn wrote: post #2

When I watch an apocalyptic movie, it always strikes me that the help gets free refuge. If the bunker entrance is sold with a ticket, the security personnel and the engineering gets to live as part of their jobs when the rich need to pay 1 billion euros per ticket. However, those real-life rich peoples bunkers are much more individualistic. They don't seem to intend to keep a social structure down there. I find the m…

I'm not sure bringing the help with you is that realistic. it would be hard to convince people they need to work to earn their keep when all the resources you have to offer them are already in the bunker. why wouldn't they just kill you and consume your (likely disproportionate) share of the provisions? your leadership skills aren't worth much in a small bunker. the only way I see this working is if you set up the se…

The type of billionaire that wants a shelter only for himself isn't the type of person that would form a bond of friendship with his security guards or treat them with respect.

Re: Billionaire bunkers: How the 1% are preparing for the apocalypse (2019)

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Post by neuronic » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 1:10 PM UTC

Good luck to the billionaires when all your slaves are dead. Power and clean water don't just randomly exist.

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Post by qzw » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 1:11 PM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #9

These are glorified man caves. They exist to be written and talked about. Yes, they ostensibly have a purpose. But as comments here call out, most would never function as actual shelters.

Agree completely. All of us accumulate useless junk to various degrees in our lives. The extremely wealthy just tend to have junk that looks extremely nice, but no more useful than the Bluetooth shower speaker I got for Christmas that’s never been opened.

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Post by ASalazarMX » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 5:13 PM UTC

spodek wrote: post #6

How many of the people who pay for these things were entrepreneurs who felt they could change the world with their new products and services when it would profit them, yet when it comes to changing the world to stop growing so much and steward our resources for future generations, they say, "we can't change human nature" and build bunkers and rocket ships to escape the devastation they accelerated?

Some of them. That was an easy question. Many of them, though, are not for changing the world, just for maintaining the status quo that empowers them.