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How the super-rich are building their luxury 'safe house' bunkers
- itsoktocry 2y agoCool article. But..when the proletariat comes for you with the guillotine, do you think locking yourself in your multi-million dollar bunker is going to save you? You're going to bowl while the mob is outside your door? That's the real problem for some of these people.
- vundercind 2y agoThat’s why so many are buying New Zealand citizenship and building refuges there. Stable liberal democracy that’s unlikely to just seize all their stuff, low risk from climate change, natural beauty, almost impossible to reach by waves of climate & climate-war refugees.
- kstenerud 2y ago... until they suck up all the money there as well (not very difficult with such a small economy), and then are suddenly back to square one with an angry mob at the gates.
- vundercind 2y agoI have confidence they will remain capable of “sucking up the money” in the rest of the world even as they shelter in NZ and chaos reigns elsewhere. Might keep them busy enough. Foreign spoils as pay-offs go a long way to keeping locals friendly.
- Yizahi 2y agoProletariat will indeed stand outside of the bunker door. But they will be facing outside, and the guillotine will be prepared for the Eastasia enemies with which Oceania was fighting "forever". Plenty of examples - Ruzzia, Venezuela, Best Korea, Iran and so on.
- voisin 2y agoI cannot parse your reasoning or argument here. Can you elaborate?
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoIf I understand correctly, the claim is that the elite will be able to persuade the proletariat to defend the elite against the "foreign enemy". I will grant that it often works that way. But there are examples of when it doesn't...
- M95D 2y agoIt's a reference to Orwell's 1984.
- theshrike79 2y agoA huge dilemma for these mega rich safe house bunkers is "how do we prevent our security from just killing us when shit hits the fan?". Some mitigation solutions include allowing the staff and security to bring their families along for motivation, but even that's not a sure-fire solution. Barring going full Bond Villain and installing some kind of hardware limiters on the staff there really isn't a way to solve this :)
- Eddy_Viscosity2 2y agoVladimir Putin started off as 'security staff'.
- theshrike79 2y agoThe rumour is he kept his ears open and got enough information to advance using what he knows...
- Nasrudith 2y agoRead the rest of the fucking history book, please.
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- r0ckarong 2y agoHow many farms do they have down there? And who is going to fall in line behind a paycheck if the world has gone boom and the thing standing between the labour hardened you and the food is a tech-bro ego? The idea of an enclosed bunker that can be run like a luxury hotel without outside supply and staff is just ludicrous.
- HumblyTossed 2y agoFood, water and fresh air. How long can they last before they have to open those fancy blast proof doors?
- OutOfHere 2y agoInstead of working to make the world a better place, now that they have drained the world, they want to protect themselves from the world. Would it really have been so bad to make the whole world better?
- surgical_fire 2y agoThe lower classes would benefit. The elites find this very icky. To be a billionaire you first have to be a sociopath.
- Log_out_ 2y agoYes, cause efficient markets wirh loads of consumers eat the one thing you want to safe your empire..time to collapse shrinkes significantly if you accelerate the rate of resource consumption.
- OutOfHere 2y agoNot making any sense.
- Log_out_ 2y agoIts capitalisms goods production that destroys the environment.redistributing fiscal resources top to bottomre results in accelerated spending on those,results in accelerated demise. Concentrating wealth in economically dead zones slows this down. A gilded age buys time for better crashpositions.
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- maxglute 2y agoWhite collar leadership skill not going to transfer. Luxury bunkers are going to be first target when shit hits fan. Are super rich going to have their own secuirty to enforce order? Whoevers in charge of that is going to Romanov the owners.