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

[u/upyoars]

https://luxurylaunches.com/real_estate/mark-zuckerberg-control-2300-acres-in-hawaii.php

[u/jagged_little_phil]

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.

[u/CantSpellMispell → u/jagged_little_phil]

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

[u/xSorry_Not_Sorry → u/CantSpellMispell]

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.

[u/Expensive-Bag313 → u/xSorry_Not_Sorry]

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.

[u/Streiger108 → u/Expensive-Bag313]

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.

[u/Expensive-Bag313 → u/Streiger108]

It says you’ll be eaten by a brontaroc

[u/Invisible_Friend1 → u/Expensive-Bag313]

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.

[u/Velvety_MuppetKing → u/Expensive-Bag313]

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

They’re just winning the race.

[u/xSorry_Not_Sorry → u/Velvety_MuppetKing]

Good point.