“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.
Gonna be a tough sell getting someone to wear one of those.
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.
Any plan or strategy that fails to take account of psychology is poorly planned
Vivos does claim that they’re paying psychologists among other experts. I wonder how well.
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.
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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.
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Genius. I’m getting my asteroid ready. Get your telescope lined up.
Can we seal the bunkers with cement?
El refugio atomico
We just have to have teams in place to break them up so they don’t come back out again.
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.
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Billionaires can just buy entire cruise ships. I assume you mean multi-millionaires?
No. I mean billionaires. They like having a community to show off their wealth around.
It’s a known phenomenon. When surrounded by sycophants, when on the top of a severe power imbalance you forget how to adult and how to empathize.
Story time!
Not surprised, they haven’t heard the word “no” or had to wait for their turn for a very long time
What is a residential cruise ship?
What is a residential cruise ship?
Think of condos, but on a ship.
People make it their permanent home, and the ship wanders the world’s oceans based (theoratically) on votes from the passenger/owners as to where to go next.
The residents tend to be a mix of remote workers, digital nomads and retirees.
I just did a quick search. $100k to own the cabin + $2k per person per month for one example. Seems like a good way for some to blow their money during their golden years. Sell the house and head out to sea to die.
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.
I hope they all get sealed in their bunkers from the outside and go insane trapped in the tomb they’ve created.
Middleclass hillbillies from North Dakota think they’re the cream of the crop?
Well look at the quality of people who think they’re the superior race
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.
Really, the most disconnected from humanity unlikable people aren’t getting along? Weird.
