> Whether underground, on an island, or at one of Cole’s haven farms, they would constitute an unlikely community of CEOs, each driven, to quote Mark Zuckerberg

> Whether underground, on an island, or at one of Cole’s haven farms, they would constitute an unlikely community of CEOs, each driven, to quote Mark Zuckerberg’s motto, to “move fast and break things” as they compete to run the show. That could be interesting: strip a bunch of billionaires of their society-protected wealth and power structures, and then watch them compete amongst each other for dominance using only their innate strengths. While they're trying to figure out Machiavellian alliances and backstabbings from scratch in an apocalypse, the winner for leadership might be the physical security mercenaries that they hired and treated like the help. That reminds me of something I saw during dotcoms. I was visiting a big-name university campus, and within earshot was a table with a few students who seemed to be talking about forming a startup. I don't think I paid attention to them, but at one point, a woman at the table who sounded like a no-nonsense engineer seemed to address one in particular, something like, "So, what do you bring?" And some young guy (who I guessed was a business major undergrad), sounded alarmed and hurt, "I provide leadership..." I think he implicitly imagined himself in a social class that in practice was often about collusions of the few to exploit the many, like a royal birthright. But so far he'd only gotten the "leadership" PR, not how you get that job and project the confidence that you merit it. Surely there are CEOs who might lead in an apocalypse, because they are respected and trusted by everyone, and can organize and inspire. But that's not how society usually selects CEOs pre-apocalypse.