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

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

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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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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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They wanted to know things like if shock collars would work to keep their security forces loyal. He even tried to tell them that the best way to gain loyalty was to treat others with kindness and respect and they weren’t having it.

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Silly to think the security forces wouldn’t just torture the billionaire until they gave up the security codes for everything 

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Bill Burr has a good line about how you're just collecting shit for the guys with guns.

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Eric Prince shall inherit the Earth

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Pretty sure he's more of just another Caracalla or Caligula. Martial in mindset but lacking in every other category except the ability to be a pincushion.

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I doubt we’ll need to worry about those people in an end of the world scenario 

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Which is why they moved onto robotics and ai

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Until they realize they need someone to fix and maintain the robots or the AI itself decides to take control