It’s a sign that at least some of the ultra-rich are anxious about global events and are making contingency plans for the Big One — whatever form that may take.
The feeling is very much in the air. Architectural Digest named “luxury bunkers” one of the real estate trends of 2023, and a finely appointed redoubt figured prominently in the recent Netflix thriller Leave the World Behind.
Bradley Garrett said the most elaborate bunker he found while researching his book (Bunker: Building for the End Times) is the Survival Condo, located in a former missile silo in Kansas. Built around 2010 by a property developer who used to work for the U.S. Department of Defence, this “nuclear-hardened” structure features walls up to 2¾ metres thick and can house between 36 and 75 people.
In addition to providing each unit with a five-year supply of “freeze-dried and dehydrated survival food,” the complex contains an indoor pool, a classroom, a library and two floors of hydroponic gardens to “provide fresh produce.” It also has filtered air and water supplies. Units go for between $1.5 million and $3 million.
the ultra-rich are preparing for the Big One
Some of us “little people” are doing it too, by not buying Reddit stock.
Crazy. If they’d stopped hoarding as much wealth as they could, they wouldn’t need to worry about fucking bunkers.
If they’d stopped hoarding as much wealth as they could
It’s as though they believe they’re immortal.
They’re not going to be able to simply buy their way past 80-or-90-something.
It’s as though they believe they’re immortal
They are only wrong by one letter.
Immoral is much more accurate…
What they have in money, they lack in self-awareness.
I’m convinced Musk’s Neuralink thing is an attempt to transfer his consciousness into one of his brood, or into a machine. Bankman-Fried hopes to create an AI version of himself.
They absolutely want to be immortal.
Bankman-Fried hopes to create an AI version of himself
Bankman-Fried himself is a real-life version of this.
Seems like I’m seeing a lot more references to guillotines and the French Revolution lately.
I swear years ago I started talking of French revolution and guillotines among my friends, and I was alone. Now I see alot of those. Funny uh
For every one you see, there are dozens you do not. Some mod on here is a billionaire apologist, and keeps removing references to guillotines as “promoting violence”.
To my way of thinking, accruing and keeping a billion dollars is a deliberate choice. That massive disparity of wealth brings great harm to all of society. We as a society are empowered to declare deliberate, harmful acts to be criminal, and assign a sufficient penalty as to deter.
Consequently, I suggest that “Being a billionaire” should be made a capital offense.
I don’t actually want to kill billionaires.
I want people who become billionaires to be extraordinarily embarrassed by their obscene wealth, and quickly “refund” the excess they “inadvertantly” collected from previous buyers, or failed to pay to workers.
Barring that, I want the IRS and SEC to confiscate the excess, convey it to liquidators, and keep the proceeds.
You don’t have to cut off a billionaire’s head to rid the world of billionaires. That billionaire no longer exists when you roll back his wealth to $999,999,999.
Well said… Although personally, I think building guillotines is a valid communication strategy.
It really drives the message home when you see videos like “how to build a guillotine for under $100”. That title really says everything
Agreed.
Taking the whip out of the hands of the overseer and strangling him with it is not an act of violence.
Likewise, the guillotine is not a tool of terror. It is a tool of democracy. It is how the third estate told the first and second to go fuck themselves.
Universal Healthcare is the most visible thing the third estate needs today. The guillotine is for anyone standing in the way of that need.
The anger that the us in the lower classes has been steadying increasing, year after year. Some of us realize the the ability for certain groups to hoard wealth is a problem. Some people have decided that marginalized communities are the ones to blame for how social mobility has become a pipe dream.
The next recession has a strong potential to get real ugly.
This is what the developing world says about the 1st world too. If we only shared better with all.
This is the point.
This is how they win the genetic war.
You hit the nail squarely on head. Please accept this award, which is the best I can offer. 🍕🍪🪙
More than anything, they have succumbed to a mindset where “winning” means earning enough money to insulate themselves from the damage they are creating by earning money in that way. It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust.
Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
Units go for between $1.5 million and $3 million.
That’s not even ultra-rich shit, it’s just simple-rich. It’s missing a few zeroes.
You could get like 50 people to pool resources to buy themselves a community… then pool resources to run it. It wouldn’t cost much for each person, really. 60k each.
As a bonus they could live in it now to maintain and further develop it, if they want to.
Assuming the bunker thay can house 36 people in costs $1.5M, you can split it with 9 other people and have a place to live for 150k. Or worst case, with 35 other people at 42k each. That’s actually not bad.
Are we sure the “unit” is not just one of the 36 it can “house”
Here’s the link for the structure. https://survivalcondo.com/why-a-survival-condo/
The Full-Floor layouts are designed for 6 to 10 people, and the Half-Floor layouts are designed for 3 to 5 people.
Ok, so 150k (full layout) or 75k (half layout) for your own private space that can fit a family sounds pretty reasonable. Gonna be a bit tight for a family, but that’s better than nothing after a nuclear event.
Edit: I think I misunderstood. If I’m reading it right, $1.5M is for just one floor, not the entire bunker. If that’s the case, then yeah nevermind. lol
I think each of the “35 slots” costs $1.5M
And why Zuck is studying BJJ. He doesn’t want his head of security killing him and taking over after the fall.
Which is very helpful when their security carries guns and won’t be near grappling range.
If the collapse comes, all the rich people will be booted outside their nice bunkers and starve.
Have you ever met a martial arts dude who wasn’t also into guns? :)
I’m sure he’s putting in plenty of time on the range too, but that doesn’t make for as good a publicity campaign.
I’ve also heard other strategies discussed, like deadman switches and explosive collars. I’m sure they have plans within plans.
Anyone that agrees to wear an explosive collar has a plan to kill the person with the button.
Not gonna help him when the rest of us weld him into his bunker, seal the vents, and put up “this place is not a place of honor” signs.
At max we get 100ish years. Wtf does it matter if you survive in a bunker at 70 years old… If the world becomes a place where you need a bunker… Just let it go.
That’s 40 years of robots improving, 40 years of resource gathering, 40 years of ai maturing. Anything can happen in that time.
that assumes that the infrastructure that improves robots/ai and gathers resources remains functional.
Everything is an assumption at this point including environmental collapse so don’t try to hold me to a standard you don’t even hold yourself.
They’ve got the Rockies underwater?
And where are you going to get the fuel to run that 4mpg beast?
They’ve got the Rockies underwater?
My guess is that’s in case the San Andreas fault lets loose.
Nah. You know how rednecks like to kit out their AR15s with all those tacticool as fuck doodads? This is like that, but on a billionaire’s budget.
I see this more like the cuban missile crisis where everyone was running scared and buying personal bunkers. The threat exists, yet business is still business.
So rather than using a portion of the influence their riches grant them to try and make the situation better and prevent the end result of those global events thwy are anxious about, they just selfishly create private enclaves where they hope they can be safe while they watch the world burn…
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Fucking sociopathic parasites.
Unless they kill the people that build them, there will be plenty of people who know about these places. If we get the point of actually needing bunkers those people (who know the ins and outs of the bunkers) will want in. Nobody will protect the rich who had them built, because their money and influence will become worthless and nobody actually likes them. At best, they will live a miserable, lonely existence until they die. At worst, they will be torn apart by the masses.
If the world ends, I want to die with everyone else.
The same people who make giant business mistakes every year think they can cover all their bases for a world shattering catastrophe.
They’re still rich tho.
That’s where their arrogance comes from.
They got rich getting in early, or on the ground floor, of whatever market they’ve exploited, and think survival in an apocalypse is the same.
We need to start a map of these places and start fucking with them NOW not later. Make them regret building them before they ever need something like that.
Me too. Got a 5 gallon container of water, and a drawer with binoculars and a camping knife. How is everyone else fairing?
You’ve got binoculars a container for water?? Shit. I need to up my game.
They must be right. They’re rich for a reason. /s
They think it will be like Mad Max and they’re going to be Immortan Joe, when they’re going to have to be working hard harvesting turnips like all the other survivors.
Crazy how many upvoted comments are just dumb memes.
I guess the redditors have made their migration :\
They don’t know anything we don’t, look at musk and Zuck they’re barely able to function in society and make endless foolish decisions - it’s just that they can afford to fill everyone’s paranoid fantasies. Regular kooks have a bug out bag, billionaire kooks have a fortified bomb shelter
