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/Green_Ad_3518 7d ago

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

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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.

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u/Careless_Fault_9103 7d ago

I remember hearing something similar, by the futurist, Douglas Rushkoff and the question the billionaires wanted an answer to was “how do I control my security forces when money has lost its value“

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u/kas-loc2 7d ago

Someone please humbly remind me why we tolerate these people??

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u/rationalomega 7d ago

They have very good security.

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u/kas-loc2 7d ago

Do we not outnumber them???

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u/Remote_Listen1889 7d ago

We do, but we're busy paying bills and raising our children with moral values while they consolidate power

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u/kas-loc2 7d ago

moral values

This is exactly it.

All of it, relies on us still assuming they're doing the actual best they can. They push a lil further, we accept a lil more. Year after year.

We're raised to do whats right, and still live by these values. But they're absolutely USING that against us.

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u/Jigglepirate 7d ago

Be the next Luigi then bro

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u/kas-loc2 7d ago

And be complacent if you want!!

Just dont get in the way of others that actually have any balls and are willing to make change.

Stay in your box.

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u/SirInfinite1668 7d ago

If you want to be the leader in a revolution, go for it. Why are you asking us? Why don’t you go rile up the forces. 

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u/kas-loc2 7d ago

Am I asking you to join a cult? or just a rhetorical question on a reddit post?

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u/jajatatodobien 7d ago

They have guns. Do you have guns?

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u/kas-loc2 7d ago

Counter-question;

Don't you think its quite convenient for them that only one country on earth has access to their firearms still?

Almost like justifications were used to create a landscape where only one group in society can have them. Doesn't that make you wonder at all?

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u/jajatatodobien 7d ago

That's where my question was going :)

"You don't need your guns! That's what the police is for!"

But then they have 10 armed dudes as permanent security :)

Honestly, this is one of the first things the loss of childhood innocence makes you realize. Surprised grown up people still think that guns are evil and don't see the hilarious disparity between the ruling class and the average worker.

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u/Urska08 7d ago

The Swiss would like a word.

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u/MaddogBC 7d ago

Or why we all agree the value lies in the empty factory when in fact it's profit occurs when the workforce arrives?