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Oh, this is nice. While the mortals are talking about surviving a self-inflicted societal collapse, the trillionaires are busy building penis rockets, fighting
by papito 5y ago
Oh, this is nice. While the mortals are talking about surviving a self-inflicted societal collapse, the trillionaires are busy building penis rockets, fighting taxes tooth and nail, and building doomsday bunkers. Ironically - in New Zealand, a place where society will most like be one of the last ones to fold.
Good bye, and thanks for all the fish!
- gspr 5y agoHow is it ironic to be building doomsday bunkers in the society most likely to be one of the last to fold? It seems like exactly the place to build one, if one were looking to.
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- papito 5y agoIt's ironic because these people have no problem shitting where they eat, moving on to a place that has not been defiled yet but their riches and absolute lack of moral compass. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-val... Supplemental reading: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/donald-trump-steve-bannon-peter-thiel-214490/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/donald-trump...
- gspr 5y agoSure. It's disgusting. But it's not ironic.
- fallingfrog 5y agoI feel pretty sure that if the rest of the world collapses, New Zealand will send their army and appropriate whatever resources these chuckleheads have hoarded. Anyways if the rest of the world goes sideways what value do stocks and bonds and American dollars have? The value of those kind of contractually enforced intangibles is socially constructed and would be the first thing to go. Land would be the thing with the most value, and again if New Zealanders are starving the government will probably just take the land by eminent domain in order to plant crops. The power of money only matters to the extent that the state backs it up.