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you will be eating canned beans, they will ride high as they do now

imgabe 3y ago
You realize money isn’t magic, right? If the world is a post-apocalyptic wasteland billions of dollars doesn’t mean anything. You aren’t getting any wagyu beef down in your bunker.
- phatfish 3y ago
  You think they wouldn't give up wagyu beef and the idea of the US dollar for a shot at rebuilding society with a massive head start over the 99.9% percent of the population that don't have a bolt hole?
  - imgabe 3y ago
    They already have massive influence over society with the added benefit of not having to rebuild 10,000 years of human progress so no I don’t think that makes any sense at all. That is cartoon supervillain nonsense. No real person thinks that way.
    - cyanydeez 3y ago
      Elon musk is publically think in a way that no one with 10000 years of history would think. unfortunately, people are flawed.
- cycomanic 3y ago
  This article is interesting reading https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prep...
- easyThrowaway 3y ago
  It won't be a "Mad Max"-style of apocalypse. More like "Republic of Weimar" kind of apocalypse, this time with the rich opportunists flying to New Zealand instead of Casablanca or the Austrian Alps.
  - cyanydeez 3y ago
    and they won't have any better at it. the people wholl be in power then will still resemble the basics: violence, means of production and more violence. which they know and are basically planning dystopian police states.
    - easyThrowaway 3y ago
      Because given the historical precedents, they know they will probably die peacefully in their beds before they have to pay any real consequences for their actions. Sure, a few dictators at the very end of their reign had to pay some consequences, but their cohorts? Soviet Russia, South America Banana republics, the aristocratic european families that enabled fascism and nazism... Probably a few CEOs great grand-childs will probably have to write how they're very very sad that their long forgotten relatives have destroyed most of the planet, and how they're just so lucky to be among the few that are still living a luxurious life somewhere in the Solomon Islands.
  - imgabe 3y ago
    Hey if it’s a Weimar style apocalypse we’ll all be billionaires.
- wheelerof4te 3y ago
  "Underground bunkers" are actually underground cities. There are a bunch of them all over the world.
  - fourthark 3y ago
    What.

You realize money isn’t magic, right? If the world is a post-apocalyptic wasteland billions of dollars doesn’t mean anything. You aren’t getting any wagyu beef down in your bunker.

phatfish 3y ago
You think they wouldn't give up wagyu beef and the idea of the US dollar for a shot at rebuilding society with a massive head start over the 99.9% percent of the population that don't have a bolt hole?
- imgabe 3y ago
  They already have massive influence over society with the added benefit of not having to rebuild 10,000 years of human progress so no I don’t think that makes any sense at all. That is cartoon supervillain nonsense. No real person thinks that way.
  - cyanydeez 3y ago
    Elon musk is publically think in a way that no one with 10000 years of history would think. unfortunately, people are flawed.
cycomanic 3y ago
This article is interesting reading https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prep...
easyThrowaway 3y ago
It won't be a "Mad Max"-style of apocalypse. More like "Republic of Weimar" kind of apocalypse, this time with the rich opportunists flying to New Zealand instead of Casablanca or the Austrian Alps.
- cyanydeez 3y ago
  and they won't have any better at it. the people wholl be in power then will still resemble the basics: violence, means of production and more violence. which they know and are basically planning dystopian police states.
  - easyThrowaway 3y ago
    Because given the historical precedents, they know they will probably die peacefully in their beds before they have to pay any real consequences for their actions. Sure, a few dictators at the very end of their reign had to pay some consequences, but their cohorts? Soviet Russia, South America Banana republics, the aristocratic european families that enabled fascism and nazism... Probably a few CEOs great grand-childs will probably have to write how they're very very sad that their long forgotten relatives have destroyed most of the planet, and how they're just so lucky to be among the few that are still living a luxurious life somewhere in the Solomon Islands.
- imgabe 3y ago
  Hey if it’s a Weimar style apocalypse we’ll all be billionaires.
wheelerof4te 3y ago
"Underground bunkers" are actually underground cities. There are a bunch of them all over the world.
- fourthark 3y ago
  What.