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And that’s basically it!
"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."
What's that thing about empires falling after 250 years traditionally?
Isn’t this exactly the premise for some of the Vaults in Fallout? Social experiments that lead to societal issues?
There's a few that come close. This situation is about as bad as the more milquetoast vault outcomes: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_known_Vaults
I'd say it's pretty middling once you remove bioweapons from the list for sake of realistic comparison. Pretty sure we don't have FEV yet.
And then there's the security question ... what's to stop their 'guards' from realizing that they could be living securely -without- the boss?
Why do you think they're so interested in AI powered robot dogs?
Obviously they have their own weaknesses but it's going to help prevent human-level coups.
Also psych AI to watch facial movements to check for disloyalty, (presumably at some point).
I think shock collars was the last answer I heard from billionaires. I don't think they think things through all the way.
Money-obsessed persons are not capable of understanding concepts other than money.
well ofcourse they would, they tend to all think that they are the main characters and everyone else is just an NPC
These fucks are GROUND ZERO for humanity's collective dysfunction. They really think concentrating their filth in a fucking bunker isn't going to brew the literal worst toxic behavior ever witnessed?
Have at it in my opinion. Lock em in and melt the keys.
Like most of their ideas the bunker strategy is idiotic because it completely fails to take into account the psychology of the individual. They used to flying around all over the planet and experiencing the best in life, for the most part they've lived this life since before they knew what their own fingers were for because they were born into wealth, these people are not going to do well in a tiny underground facility.
The people who would do the best in the bunker are the people they are in the bunker to hide away from.
The only smart people in tgis are the ones selling rhe bunkers. They charge lots of money for a promise that is not even fully complete as described in the article. In the unlikely event of an actual apocalypse, many will not even rech the bunker in the first place and if somyhing is not ready or woking as it shouls there is nobody left to prosecute.
Any plan or strategy that fails to take account of psychology is poorly planned
What can be done to prevent those living in bunkers like this from ever coming back out alive?
I am ok if they just never come out even if they don't have to die. Like lets all pretend the world is about to end then we will tell them 100 years later.
Cement in the air vents and they'll asphyxiate
Can we stage a fake crisis so they all flee to their bunkers, then we all lock them inside?
This is sort of the premis of the book "the future" by Naomi Alderman
Oh interesting I'll have to give that a look.
Unfortunately for us we have some very real crisis in the pipeline!
We do and we could fix it, if these fuckers just disappeared.
This was their last chance to avoid paying taxes. The only hope for them now is to pay taxes. Just like the rest of us.
If this is really the best of humanity that will weather the storm, we could be doomed after all.
Why do people keep saying or assuming that these are the best of humanity? These literally are the leeches of humanity, the narcissistic antisocial hoarders who think they're the cream of the crop and obviously the only ones deserving of survival of the disaster they helped create.
Fuck these people, I hope they all die in a fire or something, humanity will be off better
If only we could get all those pedophile fascists into those bunkers sooner and cut them off from all outside contact.
It is one of the worst parts of US culture and one of the greatest accomplishments of capitalists' propaganda that we generally see the rich as noble and admirable while the poor are evil and disgusting.
Not to be all US-centric about it, but that's where I live and I think this place's reputation speaks for itself.
Really, the most disconnected from humanity unlikable people aren’t getting along? Weird.
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".
This isn't all that different than my new Multi-Use neighborhood problems. Many of the people in the big houses are entitled POS who feel they are above the rules (for the most part, they are). Many in the smallest houses/rentals dgaf about the rules because their chances of getting in actual trouble are slim.
We don't have a stand your ground here tho, just getting away with shooting the contractor is pretty fucking insane.
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.
These people are such morons. It would take about 2 minutes of an intro level Anthropology class to learn that for like 95% of human history we lived in small groups like this — so we’re definitely able to do it — but they only worked because they were (mostly) egalitarian. They absolutely don’t work when group members consistently value themselves over the group.
Have these guys ever considered that the survivors outside the bunkers might just weld the bunker doors shut whilst those inside watch them do it on closed circuit television?
Look at Fallout series for more inspiration about what might happen