I honestly wouldn’t read too much into these bunkers. Wealth inequality is the bigger issue. Zuck has a net worth of about $220 billion. $100 million to Zuck is like a middle class family with a net worth of $300k spending $136. An underground bunker for Zuck is like dinner and a few drinks for most people.
So why do they have bunkers? Because they can. If you could build a doomsday bunker under your house for a hundred bucks, wouldn’t you? People invest far more than that in storm shelters. Read something sinister into it if you want. But this seems like a “because we can” expense more than anything.
This is a reasonable analysis. I guess because we are in a (silent) Cold War 2.0 and the world population became disillusioned with globalisation, billionaires building their own bunker is their insurance policy should the world is thrown into another chaos. After all, many countries who could afford did build bunkers for their citizens during the first Cold War, in case we decide launch nukes and extinct ourselves. Billionaires building their own bunkers is not different.
But on the one hand, there could be something intentionally sinister. Several billionaires, especially Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, are accelerationists. They see the world is going to end and so might as well speed it up and get on with. Although, they want to rule the ashes after. That’s their idea.
It’s his version of a mancave.
Zuck building a bunker for his ex-military head of security who will murder him instantly.
Murder him? Nahh put the explosive collar on his neck with help of the IT guy and make him a bitch boy.
People refusing to work for them would put a quick end to them.
They need us way more than we need them. They’re the parasites, we’re the hosts.
If you know someone who works directly under a billionaire’s umbrella, shame them. Make it uncool to work at Meta, or SpaceX, selling Teslas, or Amazon at any level. Make it uncool to work on their yachts, or in their homes, or as their driver, etc.
We DO have the power, we need to exercise it together.
Making it uncoool is cool, but more importantly, unionize.
Make it uncool to work on their yachts, or in their homes, or as their driver, etc.
Hang on a sec, some of these jobs come with the opportunity to, uh, do something very cool.
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I 90% agree with, but given the state of the economy, lots of people gotta pay the bills and finding another job is difficult if not impossible right now. And that’s exactly by design. Not to mention working inside one of these companies comes with the potential for sabotage. Maybe lets not shame people who don’t get the luxury of choice right now.
And of course, encourage union participation as well as any form of sabotage that one can perform that won’t end in the death or harm of innocents.
Those companies haven’t been “cool” to work at for a while now, but they’re prestigious because they pay so much and people care about money and status.
What is their plan when we just pour two meters of concrete on the bunker entrances?
Are those things emp proof?
Seems like a well thrown bucket of paint would probably disable those things.
Have you seen the price of paint lately? Mud might be the better option. From the bottom of a latrine.
Resourceful!
Don’t even need an emp they probably go down with .22
I would expect them to be. It seems like a very obvious flaw if not. Though with hubris more obvious things have been ignored before
They are very much not. They are not actually intended for military combat - more like retrofitted for it.
That’s the pr line the robotics company says. While mysteriously also having government contracts
Drones will be banned soon, so if you have any ideas in that area, you should stock up.
Do you know how to build an EMP?
Buck shot, pit traps, or just cages will be lower tech solutions
If I’ve learned anything from robot combat shows is that robots can’t deal with any entanglement device like strings and nets.
You can build a net gun out of PVC, a sprinkler valve, an air gun nozzle, and a net.
Or just get close to it and throw the net on it. It’s not like they’re going to bite you. They’re mobile surveillance cameras.
Yup, classic cartoon-style rope snare would make short work of them.
$300,000 robot dog vs hole with blanket over it.
I’ve always heard that the ceramic on spark plugs, when smashed to manageable pieces, makes excellent material for destroying electronics when propelled by a 12g round.
Never tried it though…kind of curious.
We called those ninja rocks when I was a kid. They break car windows really really well.
Good to know lol
Rodeo skills gunna be back in fashion lol
Building a pulse seems difficult. Building something that can generate a pulse is manageable.
The more important question is: are they very, VERY good boys who like belly scritches and fetching sticks?
No.
Shame. Maybe with a better firmware…
Spray foam insulation would be more efficient, and it fits in a backpack instead of requiring a giant cement truck.
It could even be mounted to an RC helicopter if the robodog swarms are too thick…
I need to be protected from millions of angry people.
How about robot dogs?
Won’t they need maintenance?
We will have maintenance people.
Won’t they need power?
We will have a power plant with operators running it.
Won’t we need replacement parts?
We will have manufacturing facility with operators running it.
Won’t we need to house all the people running our infustructure?
We will build them living facilities and pay them wages.
Won’t they want families and a fulfilling life?
We will provide resources for them to prosper.
Isn’t that called society, you know, the people that want to kill me?
Thats why we have the robot dogs.
They aren’t “all of a sudden”. They’ve been bunkering up for decades.
It’s also not necessarily indicative of anything. $100M is nothing for Zuckerberg, about 0.05% of his estimated net worth.
For context, excluding billionaires, your average 42 year old American (Zuckerberg’s age) is worth about $135k*. 0.05% of $135k is about $68.
Given the choice, would you spend $68 to completely cover you just in case the world falls apart? Most people would. I certainly would.
*That still includes some pretty wealthy people that skew it higher, so don’t feel bad if you’re not even close in net worth. I’m sure not!
I don’t know what’s worse. That ~40 year olds are worth so little or that the “$68” is so little of Zuck’s worth.
Definitely the second, the second is 10000x worse.
If someone is only worth “that little” but society provides free healthcare, childcare, education, price controlled utilities, housing, and food, and income security through some form of universal income, and everything was clean and green because billionaires didn’t exist and the extra gold hoarding blood money went into society and making sure the earth would stay safe for humans, everyone would be much better off.
A high net worth isn’t needed when all of your basic needs are covered and billionaires aren’t ramming prices of everything up 2-10x
Because there is an impending global catastrophe they have determined is unavoidable and unpreventable that they have kept under wraps due to the inevitable collapse of society once people learn of it. This is why there are no long term plans for anything anymore. Because there won’t be a long term.
Because there is an impending global catastrophe they have
determined is unavoidable and unpreventablecaused through their greed and selfishnessThere never were long term plans. Market economics is an evolutionary system. Business are the organisms with that system (so are nations, and any other organization made of people, really). So long as a business metabolizes human labor into profit, it continues. What looks like planning was really just ~two centuries of exponential growth. There is no driver’s seat, not really. The capitalist that forsakes profit doesn’t stay a capitalist long. The system itself imposes a greater selective pressure than any individual human will. It will outlast last its components… until it doesn’t. Nothing can maintain both exponential growth and equilibrium within it’s environment.
It’s much easier to clog up air intakes than storm an above ground building
Mix bleach and ammonia and pipe the fumes in…
Literally the first thing I thought of.
He is building a bunker mistakenly thinking it will not be his tomb.
Cosplaying a “survivor”
They know climate change is an extremely major problem
And, while they have the resources to do something to prevent it, they chose instead to make the situation worse.
Because they only care about their own well-being, as long as they have their money, stuff and slaves everything else can burn.
Come on. If you had all the money in the world you’d probably build one too, tbh. I know i would. I would build a freaking underground network like extra homes. It would be awesome
but yeah, zuck probably is doing it for evil reasons.
I have asked several times to myself how deep one must burrow a CNC mill until it can run all night without bothering anyone…
I want an underground comfy game room, next to the simulator room.
No, I would help others before getting anywhere near that rich. We are not the same.
Im fantasizing, and you’re taking a simple thing seriously. We are definitely not the same.
Build an underground bunker on an active volcano. I see no possible problem with this plan.
They are not living in reality anymore. There is something within these Techbros that denies consensus reality and substitutes some kind of simulation of their own.
That’s the reason this guy can build a bunker on an island close to the water on a volcano.
There is also some interesting symbolism in there.
They feel the need to hide from the people, because they know they would face the fate of Johan de Witt if the people ever found out what they did to them.
There’s something that happens to your brain when you get lots of money it seems.
Sam Bankman-Fried the disgraced crypto entrepreneur was an effective altruist with a few of his coworkers and their goal was helping people. I was reading up on them and it was initially about feeding people and earning money to give to others. When they started getting more and more money they were like: “what if there’s a zombie outbreak?” Obviously, we’re really smart and society needs people like us to survive so we should be spending money on private islands and having our own country to make sure we can keep humanity going or some shit. It was weird.
Despite what anything thinks about Bill Burr now … I think he had a really good point about these “end of the world” catastrophes – I simply don’t want to be alive for any of them. I don’t wanna be scrounging around the remnants of humanity with a dying ecosystem and dwindling human race.
I agree with Burr’s sentiment. I’ve seriously started thinking about selling my stuff and maybe go a few places to see ppl I care about once more and just exiting when I’m totally broke. Fuck it.
Nu uh uh you can’t get out of it that easy. You have to suffer like the rest of us.
There are no active volcanos on Kauai; they are only active above the hot spot which Kauai has been moving away from for about 5 million years.
Hot spots are by nature in constant flux. Kauai isn’t nearly far enough from the main plume to say for absolute certainty that a flare in the mantle couldn’t cause the dormant volcano there to reactivate. At the very least there are seismic events to consider. There was a 6.0 quake about a week ago just outside of Kona. That is plenty to potentially cause a landslide of cave-in on Kauai. These could also cause tsunamis which could cause all sorts of issues for a bunker.
The Hawaiian Islands are an archipelago, the furthest being Kure Atoll which is about 30 million years old. The hot spot that has created this archipelago is activating volcanos on the Big Island, as well as the Kamaʻehuakanaloa Seamount.
The reason the volcanos on Kauai are extinct is the direction the Pacific tectonic plate is moving.
I made no arguments against any other type of events affecting his future crypt, only that Kauai is not an island with an active volcano.
The volcano on Kauai is classed as extinct, which means it has not erupted in the last 10,000 years. You are right there. My point is that there are plenty of documented cases of extinct volcanoes reactivating. Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia and Fourpeaked in Alaska are both examples.
the hot spot which Kauai has been moving away from for about 5 million years
High time to check in again, then
It’s the perfect place for petting their white cat and berating their henchmen while waiting for James Bond to storm the place.
The flag is hilarious…
Yeah, the U.S. as a country is way too comfortable with this behavior.
exactly, right
This delights me… to be a fly on the wall of that bunker!
Should he ever use it, he’ll find out that locking himself in with his staff was a massive error in judgment. They will tear him apart.
Should he ever use it, he’ll find out that locking himself in with his staff was a massive error in judgment. They will tear him apart.
I’m sure these billionaires have found a solution that makes perfect sense to them.
The collars will be vibe coded by the lowest bidder’s roommate’s nephew and will immediately explode once the doors are closed leaving them effectively stranded inside, helpless to watch on the security cameras as the concrete trucks roll up to seal off the doors…
The joke’s on them, we’ll just weld the doors shut from the outside.
Seeing as it’s in Hawaii I’m hoping it fills with magma.
Concrete on the air vents.
I’m too smart to know some of these Feudalists are dumb enough to cut corners in their own safety plan.
When they all go to their bunkers, we should block the doors and build an equitable society
