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Moats are back! (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 days ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I imagine the ultra-wealthy can afford their own personal surface-to-air missiles & their own personal army to man them.

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.

It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust

I tried to reason with them. I made pro-social arguments for partnership and solidarity as the best approaches to our collective, long-term challenges. The way to get your guards to exhibit loyalty in the future was to treat them like friends right now, I explained. Don’t just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships. They rolled their eyes at what must have sounded to them like hippy philosophy.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/0 4/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Installing special combination locks to keep the food secure and the. Locking yourself in a bunker with those people sounds like an excellent way to spend the last ten minutes of your life having your fingernails slowly pulled off.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Both of those sound more expensive than drones.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

True but I think this guy means that we commoners could cross their strongholds with drones. And I meant that the wealthy could defend themselves against our paltry drones with surface-to-air missiles & their own personal armies.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

They surely could.

And we could fling stuff over the walls to make sure they don't get a minute of quiet or more than a week with un-scorched grass.