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[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 0 points 5 days ago (4 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

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[–] guillem@aussie.zone 139 points 1 week ago (2 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.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think they know the system is unfair. They are just greedy fucks who’d prefer to squeeze it completely dry to benefit themselves.

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[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 105 points 1 week ago (20 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.

[–] 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

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Many Bothans have died to bring us this intel.

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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.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Further, they don't have what it takes to survive off the land, nor the intimidation to warlord after.

Other than a pensioners its difficult to imagine someone more dependant on the systems.

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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 91 points 1 week ago (8 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.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

people like musk, thiel,altman have built complexes in other countries( mostly thiel,NZ) in case billionaires finally becomes the target they richly deserved, how are they going to staff thier complexes? with harems of women in cas thiel men, and slaves, willing to go with them.

[–] 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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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is such a great book.

And yeah, fuck them. I would absolutely never let them in.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Now ask yourself why these guys are suddenly so obsessed with AI, chatbots, and getting rid of roles previously staffed by humans.

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Cory Doctorow's Masque of the Red Death novella (named after Poe's story of the same name) explores this theme a lot, especially how short sighted the rich can be and how well the poor band together to rebuild.

Here's the free audio book:

https://archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_332/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_332_-_The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death.mp3

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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 (4 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.

[–] Ghosthacked@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago (5 children)

He's just going to the next tier of cuck that provides bikes for the raiders that get in his bunker. They should keep him alive as a manservant when his little apocalypse plan falls apart.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

Danny mcbride's gonna slot right in there

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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 (10 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.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A bicycle isn't a bad thing to have in an apocalypse. Not difficult to maintain, considerably faster and more efficient than walking, basically no infrastructure required.

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[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

with his OpenAI androids supplied by ZUCKERBORG and altman

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

Motorcycle centipede

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you have a bunch of motorcycles going in a line and you ride another motorcycle on top of that line like a conveyor belt then you will be going twice as fast as the highest speed the single motorcycle could go.

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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 24 points 1 week ago

Nawww is the little piggy boy scared we're gonna come for him?

Good.

[–] rem26_art@fedia.io 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Insane strategy, Silicon Valley execs. Sell the thing that you believe is gonna cause the apocalypse so you can afford to have apocalypse insurance. That definitely needed to happen...

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[–] Generic_Idiot@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just collecting shit for badder men really. Dumb.

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[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All these billionaires stockpiling in their secure bunkers have clearly never heard of the word 'siege'.

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

seige only works if the besieged don't have enough supplies and food production.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Well, if you can find the bunker and have nothing but time on your hands, you can get through concrete.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Self fulfilling prophecy

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

At least i know where to find the motorcycles, guns and food when the apocalypse comes

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

It's almost like we should strike now before they have a chance to run and hide.

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