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.
To be fair, what could a single billionaire do? They are far more powerful than most, but they would have to cooperate with other billionaires to make that change.
There are 3000 billionaires. Who is going to stick their head out if the necessary changes will be opposed by many billionaires as well as huge parts of the regular population?
It would be better for society to improve itself instead of waiting for a solution by the billionaires. Difficult while being trained to be a consumer, but possible.
They might start fighting turning on themselves
The solution is to cull billionaires. They can lose their wealth or their heads, either will make a better society
The thing is, none of these bunkers are built by billionaires. Would be real unfortunate if they had some design flaws in them lol
Doesn’t need to be any design flaws, a few minutes with a welder and/or a truck load of concrete at the door once they’re in there would render the whole billionaire problem “solved”, Hotel California style.
Given we’re talking about the total collapse of society, the goal in such an event would be less “keep the billionaire in” and more “get all the food and ammunition he’s hoarding out. And any women.”
lol any woman in there being kept under the implication would be happy to kill them and get out, the bunkers would eat themselves from the inside
The women will likely just open the door for you to get away from the creepy weirdos inside
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.
No wilderness survival skills, how do they know which berries to eat and which will poison you, or which animal carcass have a ton of parasites you should never eat, never eat a carnivore or an animal that eats mostly carrion.
I’m pretty good at the motorcycle stockpiling myself. Just ask my wife lol
Rushkoff wrote a book about consulting for these billionaire peppers.
https://rushkoff.com/books/survival-of-the-richest-escape-fantasies-of-the-tech-billionaires/
That’s really interesting thanks
My library had copies available in ebooks and audiobooks, too
I would like for them to find out the hard way that the characteristics to be a leader in a Neo-liberal capitalistic society are not the same in an apocalyptic wasteland.
And by hard way, I mean that they would be made the fucksock of charismatic warlord.
Theres a book that an advisor for the billionaire bunkers wrote, sorry my phone is glitchy so I can’t look it up without abandoning this post. I heard an interview with him where he said he would always circle back to “if you use your vast wealth to improve these societal issues, there isn’t a need for a bunker”. They won’t hear it. They’re driving towards the apocalypse because they are all racing to be the richest. Nothing else matters.
All I’m finding when I drill down is a pulp romance between a billionaire and his scientist ex:
Everything went as planned…until it didn’t. In a world overrun by a zombie pandemic, a billionaire and his scientist ex race to find a cure before his bunker–and the anZidote–fall in the wrong hands. …>
A broader search returns a ton of right wing/prepper stuff. Any chance you can find the title?
fucksock
