• Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    You would have thought that the people making these shelters would have learned from Covid that they simply can’t crawl in a hole and stay safe. The wealthy are used to soft easy living and a underclass of people who do what they tell them to because of their money.

    If we really had a society ending disease or event they wouldn’t last two weeks before they came out of their bunkers looking for entertainment because they were bored. You couldn’t tell most of them to stay inside or even wear a fucking mask during Covid.

    On top of that they may have the skills to make money but the skills a P.E. Investor has from raiding healthy companies and pilfering assets is not the same skill set needed to lead people when money has no meaning and/or form collective groups to survive.

    Without a government and its protection, the wealthy are just going to end up dead with the head of security for the bunker fucking their trophy wife.

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        A consultant reported that billionaires, when confronted with the idea that the private security team have incentive to continue to obey the billionaire once society had collapsed, asked tge consultant how they could msintain control of the security team, such as if shock/explosive collars or locking up all the food would work.

        The consultant suggested they simply treat the security team really well beforehand, like just being a good friend.

        The billionaires then became concerned, and I shit you not, asked “but where does that end?”

        I’ll try to find the link to add it here.

        Edit: Here it is.

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          Oh I wouldn’t care for the wife so much, in fact I’d likely throw her out as well, but a free fully stocked doomsday bunker sounds pretty nifty.

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        Yeah… No billionaire knows how to exist without exploiting labour. They aren’t going to be going into their bunkers without security, chefs, cleaners, or entertainers. There’s so much cognitive dissonance required to simultaneously believe that the government/world is going to be destroyed, but you will safe and still have a legal right to property.

        The only thing that maintains their wealth is the legal and economic system they use to exploit other people’s work. Without it their property is just going to be seized by the first person who is quicker on the draw.