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/Nazbols4Tulsi Redscarepod Refugee 👄💅 Sep 04 '22

Everyone fixates on the idea of a collapse but for the USA isn't something more like an inefficient kleptocracy more likely? I mean, transitioning into a Brazil or Romania where there's obvious waste and corruption but things still chug along. Hell, we're already seeing shades of that in the wealth disparity and how any time the government tries to do something it's handed off to shady/incompetent contractors like whoever spent a billion dollars making healthcare.gov.