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The Rich Are Hoarding Wealth — Because They Know What’s Coming (archive.ph)

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The Takeaway — Collapse Isn’t a Flaw, It’s the Plan

The rich are not scrambling to prevent collapse. They welcome it — because they know they’ll be the only ones left standing. While the rest of us are told to “sacrifice” and “tighten our belts,” billionaires are building bunkers, buying private islands, and hoarding resources for the dystopia they see coming.

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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Douglas Rushkoff has written about the apocalypse bunkers the rich are building, and about how their planning does not account for how to control their private security once money means nothing.

The wealthy are not smart enough to plan the collapse, the handful who are smart enough to plan for it can’t figure out how to make it more than a few months.

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

I've always wondered about that. If society is collapsing, money has no value. The people you hired to help you are going to turn on you and take everything.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

The wealthy are not smart enough to plan the collapse

The wealthy are the cause of it. Cancer ain't gonna get to curing cancer....

[–] nicerdicer@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here is an article about his book from 2022. I think I have read this in the past, but I coduln't remember his name. What stuck to me was this:

In the end (so to speak) billions of dollars can only take these guys so far, anyway. “Why do you think they’re gonna protect you after your money is worthless?” Rushkoff remembers asking his billionaire desert hosts of their private security forces. From there, the men began grasping at straws. “At that point, it was shock collars and guard dogs and combinations to the safes,” he says of their last resorts.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah.

Better than worrying about these cheesedicks, build mutual aid networks with friends and neighbors and coworkers. We’ll all need help at some point in the near future.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To dump tons of dirt on bunker doors?

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AND plant crops in the dirt after.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Beautiful. We won’t eat the rich, but they’ll fertilize our crops.