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Billionaires can already live in underground luxury bunkers that can withstand a nuclear Armageddon for decades. With accelerating tech, their ability to opt o
by armitron 3y ago
Billionaires can already live in underground luxury bunkers that can withstand a nuclear Armageddon for decades.
With accelerating tech, their ability to opt out of global catastrophic risks also accelerates. Not so for the rest of us.
- cardamomo 3y agoI think that's what they believe, but I buy Douglas Rushkoff's argument that this is a collective illusion on the part of the billionaire class. See https://rushkoff.com/books/survival-of-the-richest-escape-fantasies-of-the-tech-billionaires/ https://rushkoff.com/books/survival-of-the-richest-escape-fa...
- dghlsakjg 3y agoThere’s a lot of Russian billionaires discovering that their freedoms aren’t as unlimited as they thought…
- jgraettinger1 3y agoDon’t you think billionaires would also rather sip cocktails on a beautiful beach vs their concrete bunker? There’s only so much you can do to spruce up a bunker. They’re not rooting for global warming, as a class.