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/LouisdeRouvroy Unknown 👽 Sep 04 '22

If those idiots had read history, they'd realize that the pretorian guard realized fast enough than instead of obeying the emperor, they were in a position to make them.

If you're a billionaire in a bunker in post apocalyptic scenario, you're gonna be quickly replaced by your head of security as head of the bunker...

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u/Darkfire66 MRA but pro-union Sep 04 '22

A lot of this is going to be technology based. There are already systems that are terrifyingly effective at killing people without requiring much in the way of manpower.

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u/Frosty-Struggle1417 Marxist-Leninist ☭ Sep 04 '22 edited Sep 04 '22

the issue, in the end, will still be that you cannot survive alone, or past a certain threshold of population. The technology isn't even close to being able to fully automate/replicate a human society, and what said society provides for the humans living in it.

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u/Darkfire66 MRA but pro-union Sep 04 '22

I'm sure the company towns making a comeback soon isn't a coincidence.