None of them will survive.
They will either; A) try to go it alone and die because they have no idea how to keep themselves alive without people to serve them, or B) they will die when the employees that they hired to take care of them in their bunkers realize that they don’t need to put up with the rich asshole’s shit anymore and kill them.
Yep, as soon as their money is worthless, their goons will turn on them. That’s why they think AI kill bots are their best best (spoiler: it’s even worse).
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Why would I want to survive an apocalypse? I’d rather prep for a peaceful and painless death.
https://aeon.co/essays/the-great-myth-of-empire-collapse
for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides
This is a great article. Thank you for the link.
Unless you have a bunch of fentanyl, then the former is more likely than the latter.
There are cheap and painless methods for suicide without medication. They will become widely known when the downfall accelerates.
Agreed to a certain extent. But cheap and painless is hard to do without some kind of medication. Fentanyl is cheap and definitely painless. That’s literally what it’s designed to do. Name one way to do it that’s cheaper and more humane. The downfall is here. I have a kid that eliminates my chances of an easy out. I can’t do it. But without him, I would. I’m going to have to live this downfall at least as long as I can. Or until he does, then it’s just open season.
rich preppers are gross and i hope they fail
If you have the money, and it’s not much to these people, why not prep?
I feel like with all the unoriginal shows we’re seeing we could definitely do with a ‘prepared assassin kills jackasses that caused the apocalypse.’
I’m waiting for Juice by Tim Winton to get optioned…
The only way to prevent people from turning on you is to treat them with respect and friendship. Billionaires refuse to understand that.
The apocalypse being an angry mob trying to make them pay taxes. So basically the Antichrist for somebody like Thiel.
Here’s an idea, get them in there somehow and then seal the entrance with a couple cubic meters of molten metal
“Honestly, I am less concerned about gangs with guns than the woman at the end of the driveway holding a baby and asking for food.”
That hit hard because it was so very close to what I was thinking when I started that part of the article. Every mouth you take in is a serious dent on your supply of calories.
Anyway, that article went deeper than I expected. But regardless of morals or motivation, you would be a fool of a billionaire not to build a bunker. The $8.3m luxury series is pocket lint to the truly wealthy. Why not?
Thought a bit on the Shit Hits The Fan (SHTF) scenario. Know what’s crazy? I have 2.5 acres of swamp in the Florida boonies and there is no way I could grow enough to feed myself, wife and two little kids. And we’re tiny people! And even in wetlands, getting clean water would be quite a trick. We’d have to move to neighboring land and setup near the creek, which floods constantly. (You can tell by walking around and observing.) It would take every ounce of energy we could put in, all day, every day, just to eat. And while we’re out hunting and gathering and farming, who’s gonna guard the homestead?
I’m far better prepared for this sort of thing than your average Joe and I wouldn’t stand a chance keeping us alive for a year.
