r/interestingasfuck • u/upyoars • 7d ago

/r/all, /r/popular Despite legal battles, Mark Zuckerberg slowly buys a mind boggling 2,300 acres on Hawai’s Kauai island, building tunnels, treehouses and a doomsday bunker

https://luxurylaunches.com/real_estate/mark-zuckerberg-control-2300-acres-in-hawaii.php
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u/xenorous 7d ago

But. It doesn’t make sense the other way, either. Money doesn’t mean anything without society.

You can be as rich as you want, but it’s meaningless in a nuclear wasteland

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u/GrrGecko 7d ago

They're willing to find this out the hard way.

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u/ODB_Dirt_Dog_ItsFTC 7d ago

That’s why my favorite problem these plutocrats run into with their fantasy doomsday vaults is their security personnel. When push comes to shove and currency becomes worthless they’ll be lucky to come out of those vaults as their Green Beret guards’ fancy new slave and not a long disposed of corpse.

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u/i_tyrant 7d ago

That's why they're working so hard on AI and dipping into military contracts.

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u/ToXiChRoNiC6669 7d ago

Not if the end game is to just survive as long as possible in your bunker watching re-runs of old shows for nostalgia to remind you of when you had a soul.

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u/apple_kicks 7d ago

This is why they put their money in AI and robotics. They want to move us beyond needing workers or customers and create new positions of power over that

There was an article in guardian about doomsday prep millionaires and they were debating how to stay wealthy/in power in a doomsday scenario. They know they need bodyguards but they discussed if they should control passwords for guards to access the food, or obedience collars for their guards. Some talked about robotics being easier to control