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[–] hark@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

The rich would rather live in an apocalypse than let workers have some more of the wealth that the workers themselves have created.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Electric motorcycles? Do preppers have an understanding of how gasoline absorbs water from the air and is substantially worse within a matter of months? Even with stabilizer, you get a few years out of it, tops. What are you going to use for the rest of your life?

To be fair, the writers of post-apocalyptic Hollywood movies don't understand it, either.

[–] hello@retrolemmy.com 6 points 6 days ago

Create your own gasoline refining plant in your bunker and crank out fuel as you need it? Should be fine because motorcycles don't use a lot of gas. But you would think if you had tons of money you might put some solar panel stuff in storage as well just in case

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Could always set up a refinery of sorts.

And while gas absorbs water from the air, I'm sure there is an expensive way to if not outright prevent it, than slow it down way more than current mass adopted storage.

Off the top of my head i imagine some sort of giant glass tank involving vaccums and check valves would at least extend the usable life by a fair amount.

And while there are a lot of popular motorcycles whose gas mileage is little better than a car there are also a good amount with amazing gas mileage.

There's also the possibility of converting the motorcycles to alternate fuel sources like propane or natural gas.

Or as these people are just rich assholes indulging in their fantasies they may really take their cue from movies.

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

It's ok, they're gathering supplies for the people. Once things start it'll all be in one convient place to take.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

I'm pretty good at the motorcycle stockpiling myself. Just ask my wife lol

[–] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 3 points 6 days ago

The crappy thing, is that while they plan on a possible collapse of soceity, they could just as easily plan on what to do about all the displaced workers created, by all their technical solutions seeking problems.

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, like these attention whores will stay in their bunkers and not come outside, like the ppl constructing them wont target them first to get themselves a fortresss, thats what id do if I made them and we had an apocalypse, id leave myself multiple backdoors

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

thier BODYGUARD will be the ones to turn on them first, either tha tor thier harems , or thier slaves. take a lesson from indian govt in the 70s, when the ghandi(ghandis family) govt was in power, the pm was murdered(blown up with a bomb) by her sikh bodyguard because the pm decided to persecute them.

this is whats going to happen to these billionaires, they would have to be paranoid as putin to escape potential threats.

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

india loves israel because they helped them consolidate their power, toppled the last of the sikh empire, punjab still doesnt have water rights, ima bring it up whenever since wikipedia says it was an alleged massacre and only like 100 ppl died when eye witness accounts say 1000s, but ppl trust the government here for some reason

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

They desginated sikhs a warrior race/caste, made them their body guards, then werenlike hey we're gonna go kill your people protect us lol

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Well that was because irsrael trained indian military to do operation bluestar where they massacred hella civilians at the golden temple to get to one dude, which is what they do now lol

[–] guillem@aussie.zone 139 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If your way of making money makes you really fear people will be mad at you, you should be asking yourself what's wrong with your way of making money. That is, if you care. But if you don't care don't whine.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 1 week ago

I know which compound I’m targeting first.

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[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 105 points 1 week ago (21 children)

I don't remember who said it, but I think about this comment a lot:

All these billionaires would rather spend their wealth building bunkers for when their actions cause social collapse, instead of trying to prevent social collapse in the first place.

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

And they all already have, insane, there is our trickle down economics at work, they would rather hoarde and spend every last cent on a bunker right before they drop dead from old age than give back to the world

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The thing is, none of these bunkers are built by billionaires. Would be real unfortunate if they had some design flaws in them lol

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

These assholes always fantasize that their wealth and accumulation of luxury items will grant them the leg up to become rulers during the social collapse. They don't realize that in case of a social collapse the world won't immediately look like Mad Max, and they certainly aren't Immortan Joe. It will look more like Children of Man. Very slow and very gradual and with a lot mass governmental violence, not small arms violence.

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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 91 points 1 week ago (16 children)

I read a book called Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven many years ago about a comet hitting the Earth. There was a scene in the book, after the impact, where a rich guy manages to finally reach a place up in the mountains where he has supplies stashed, only to find that his employees have claimed it for themselves and won't let him in because he's basically useless in the new world of survival.

If you were working for Huffman or Musk or any of the rest of them, and a there was a huge society ending disaster, would you let them in when they showed up or would you just shoot them down with their own guns? I know what I would do. I can't imagine anyone letting them in.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It doesn't even have to be so combative.

Imagine being thrown together with 99 other survivors of the apocalypse and 1 of them was musk.

There's going to be medical people and trades people and farmers and naturalists and even people with governance experience from community groups et cetera.

Imagine how utterly useless a billionaire would be in that context. Their entitlement would make them worse than useless. Like I'd rather be stuck with nanna who is just a drain on resources rather than someone who's only skill is self interest.

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[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dude could have been cast as a white walker and HBO would have saved a ton in VFX and makeup costs.

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[–] Secret_Music@crazypeople.online 42 points 1 week ago (9 children)

The really funny thing about Spez is that he's far from a power player in the tech scene, nowhere near the likes of Musk and Zuckerberg. But he so desperately wants to be that he actually just looks sad and pathetic in the process.

Wtf is he going to do with his stockpile of motorbikes during the apocalypse? Start a Mad Max biker crew? What a fkn loser lol.

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Where are you getting the gas, Steve? Gas is only good for a few months in storage without treatment and a couple of years with it. Have you never read a fucking book?

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The first thing people will do when society collapses is head to where the billionaires live to raid their stockpiles.

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I always find it funny that people imagibe that in an apocalypse a modern fossil fuel vehicle would be any good. Unless you know how to modify the engine to use realistically self-producable fuel you will be able to run it for only a few months before all the fuel in the world degrades and starts destroying/not running the engine. Better off getting electric vehicles as electricity is actually easy to produce.

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I say that when the billionaires retreat into their bunkers we should all cover the entrances and vents with a couple hundred layers of concrete.

[–] Corn@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago

They're just building latrines for future civilizations.

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[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Multiple motorcycles? What's he gonna do, ride them all at once?

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