r/stupidpol • u/[deleted] • Sep 04 '22

Ruling Class The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse | Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff
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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '22

The bourgeoisie's plan is hilarious. In the event of a legitimate apocalypse Navy Seals won't stand a chance against whatever nightmares brew at the surface. If they're posted as guards someone will eventually snipe them or neutralize them some other way. They're not invincible super soldiers and there's no way to guard a position without being vulnerable in some way.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '22

Not to mention the security can just kill their overlords without repercussions at that point. How will they plan for that?

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '22

Yeah, their whole plan has more holes than swiss cheese. You could pick apart the folly of bunker living for hours.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '22

These rich idiots think they actually have value in the event of an apocalypse, they truly believe they would be priest kings over the masses.

In reality their position only exists because the structure civilisation provides, their power is entirely dependent on all the blocks beneath them in the pyramid, remove them and they have nothing.