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And that’s basically it!
These aren’t “the wealthy” - most of these are priced at $50k-75k. That’s prepper nutjob price ranges and it’s no surprise that they’re shooting people with front end loaders since obviously it’s the government disguised as the company workers, coming to dig them out and take their guns.
The people who are actually wealthy have the means to not live in a hole in South Dakota surrounded by other people in their own holes. Their hole in the ground will be somewhere much less advertised.
During one particularly hairy incident, a man who moved into one of the units with his wife, his daughter, and her four children, pulled a gun on a Vivos contractor who had pulled up with a front-end loader to his bunker.
The resident eventually shot the contractor, injuring him. However, South Dakota’s stand-your-ground law led to a grand jury declining to indict him.
It's telling that one of these billionaires was the type to kill a worker trying to do their job near his property. And "stand your ground" laws were created by and for gun nuts who want to murder someone. Change my mind...
The worker should've watched The 100 or Fall Out, plenty of warnings there. /s
Who would have thought confining some of the most self-centred, egotistical, greedy and morally flexible people together in a living situation might not work out.
Shocker..
It's kind of like their own punishment. They'll laugh as they descend into their bunkers, thinking "no one can get in!" Not knowing that the exits will be boarded up.
At last, one of them will emerge, after having ate the other occupants - children included - and they will be met by a crowd of brown people (global warming caused "white genocide").
The crowd will then drag the surviving billionaire to a down square, where they'll be submerged into a vat of liquid metal, forming a statue with a horrid look on it's face, to be mounted on a block with a placard titled "The Last Billionaire".
Nah. These bunkers all have air holes and we have a lot of concrete :)
Can I vote for you? You seem like leadership.
They think no one can get in, we think none of them will ever get out.
Can we just fake a catastrophe now to get them to all go in?
STOP! I cant get any harder and it aint going down anytime soon
Have you tried flicking it?
In a manner of speaking
"I'm not locked in with you, you're locked in with me", but they all believe they're the "me"
But wait! What if we buy a cruise ship and sell the cabins on it as law-free estate for these freaks? Certainly that one has to work out, right?!
[off topic?]
"Children Of Strife" by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
It's the last book in a series, but can be read as a stand alone.
A group of trillionaires travel to a distant planet in hopes of terraforming it.
Things don't go as planned...
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If this is really the best of humanity that will weather the storm, we could be doomed after all.
Way to lick the boot, Victor Tangermann. Just because they survive this hypothetical "life-extinction event" doesn't make them better or special, it makes them lucky that they inherited or exploited so many resources. In fact, the limitless greed of billionaires and giant corporations is almost certainly what will doom us all. Hoarding more wealth than you could ever spend while others suffer and starve isn't "the best of us", it's psychotic...
I read it as tongue firmly planted in cheek, especially after he noted they were using the courts to address issues with their “post apocalyptic fantasy” community.
Maybe. Unfortunately, too many genuinely use the same language to refer to wealth-hoarders. Also, when the very first sentence in an article written by the Senior Editor of a publication contains a typo, I tend not to give them the benefit of the doubt.
More and more wealthy individualsare buying up luxurious underground shelters to survive the apocalypse, whether it’s in the form of a nuclear conflict that turns the Earth’s surface into a radioactive wasteland, or a devastating pandemic that decimates the global population.
Not a television guy, but if you convinced these jackoffs the world was ending, forcing them to flee to their bunker commune, o'd watch a reality tv show of them in the bunker going lord of the flies on each other.
That's actually part of a whole chapter in World War Z. A mercenary from the rich people's resort who later ditched them reveals that once the common people started showing up to their door rather than zombies, an immediate fight broke out between all of the residents and their staff, with most of them killing each other. The mercenaries refused to intervene because they were hired to kill infected, not normal people, and had no loyalty to the rich residents.
The whole thing was broadcast live because the owner of the resort wanted to flaunt their status during the great panic.
The mercenaries refused to intervene because they were hired to kill infected, not normal people, and had no loyalty to the rich residents.
The most unrealistic part. They're mercenaries, they're loyal to money
I've thought about that. Scare them all into hiding in their bunkers, and then never tell them that there never was a threat.
They can live in their precious bunkers, while we all go on with real life. 25 years from now, one of them will poke their heads out, and say "HEY! How long as everything been okay?" And we can say, "Since the day you people went into your bunkers, now get back in there!"
This should be nonnegotiable
I saw that Twilight Zone episode! It was a good one!
Crazy to think the best place to be in a major crisis is to stay put with your family and the local people you have common ground with rather than randos who just try to solve their problems with isolated wealth, huh?
(There's nuance to that, of course. If everyone in your town has to evacuate, go with them.)