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(or) protect them under maybe a calamitous future.

• javajosh 6y ago
  Sure but what if your actions to protect them from a calamitous future actively result in that future happening? The number of disasters that are a) small enough not to wipe us all out, b) large enough that it would wipe out a large fraction of us, and c) a large amount of money would have any influence being in one group or another, is very small, and they would be mostly political (possibly biological) disasters. I mean, I could think of stranger stories than a humanity that was saved from total destruction by the actions of a few "crazy" billionaires that got together to make a livable moon base "just in case" in 2021, just before The Real Plague, a virulent strain of Covid-19, created a zombie apocolypse that almost wiped us out - except for the intrepid crew of Atlas-1 Moonbase, populated by the best of humanity: Bezos, Gates, Musk, Myrhvold, Trump, and a good chunk of the Saudi royal family. Or that was the plan, anyway, before the Chinese finally activated their APT and, at the last minute, replaced the passengers with CCP leaders and their families. (Satire aside, if humanity could "come back" from this unlikely scenario, then I'd say the excesses of the 20th and 21st century might even have been worth it. But really, the odds of any of this happening seem vanishingly small.