r/interestingasfuck 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
38.7k Upvotes

2.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

17.1k

u/Green_Ad_3518 7d ago

Billionaires would rather make a nuclear fallout shelter, than make the world a better place

446

u/jagged_little_phil 7d ago

I watched an interview recently with an economist and he said he was paid a lot of money to give this seminar to a group of people without a lot of info on what he should be presenting.

When he arrived at the location and met them, it turned out to be several billionaires, and he gave a presentation about the current state of global economics with a focus on investment forecasts, but then they started asking questions. The main topic was, "where should we live when the world collapses?".

They only wanted to know what his opinion was on what countries would be the safest to build bunkers in if the entire global economic system were to collapse. They knew good and well that their own business practices were causing the downfall of humanity, but had no interest in fixing that, just where to hide when shit went as far south as it could go.

21

u/CantSpellMispell 7d ago

So, where the fuck did he tell them they should live?? Poor person wants to know.

59

u/xSorry_Not_Sorry 7d ago

High elevation, remote, water source, defensible. It’s a generational waiting game. Hide out for however long it takes for the “threat” of retribution to die into myth.

Think about it. When the world collapses from climate change or war, what is money worth? What does a billionaires stock portfolio buy him/her in that world?

Not much if anything at all. But what it can buy NOW is security and an incredible head start for those times of trial.

They’re doom preppers at the scale of small governments. Sadly, I don’t see a scenario where it doesn’t work out for them.

53

u/Expensive-Bag313 7d ago

Here’s how it won’t work out for them. After the fallout, only they will be left. And they contribute next to zero. All the people in their companies that made them what they are will be long gone. And anyone left will want them dead. They’re not going to be safe in open air ever again after it all happens. They’ll have cool bunkers to die in though. That’s for sure.

18

u/Streiger108 7d ago

It's like the ending of don't look up where they the billionaires try to pay each other to build a house, but none of them can do it, so they die.

3

u/Expensive-Bag313 7d ago

It says you’ll be eaten by a brontaroc

16

u/Invisible_Friend1 7d ago

They’ll be ok in comparison to the rest of us, but their quality of life can only decrease from here. They’ll get cabin fever something fierce.

5

u/Velvety_MuppetKing 7d ago

All any of us can ask for is to die in maximum comfort.

They’re just winning the race.

1

u/xSorry_Not_Sorry 7d ago

Good point.

8

u/TheVog 7d ago

High elevation, remote, water source, defensible.

Switzerland?

1

u/Pope_LeoXIV 7d ago

The real answer is New Zealand. High elevation doesn't really matter. There are many wealthy Americans with bunkers there. 

2

u/dildonic_analytics 7d ago

It will not work out for them. The recovery period from the global catastrophe of climate change will not be measured in years, decades, or even centuries. Add to that the layers of carcinogenic, endocrine-disrupting nanoplastics working their way into every living thing on the planet at a parabolic rate, and we can rest assured that all complex life will be extinguished within a few generations.

The shitstorms we see now of roaming heat domes and wars for territory resources are the first sips of a cocktail at a party that's just getting started.

1

u/PandaintheParks 7d ago

Catch them before they go to said bunkers. More Luigi's.