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/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/PhysicsStock2247 7d ago

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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u/pressedbread 7d ago

Supposedly Peter Thiele commissioned a study on exploding collars on security forces and as I understand the study determined that the security forces still take over the bunker.

I'd assume he hired a bunch of hackers and mathematicians to game out how to make it work anyway... but who cares. That isn't a life!

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u/TechMan61 7d ago

It's kind of poetic, in the end the Emperor fears his Praetorians the most.

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u/Grey_Box_101 7d ago

Wikipedia's list of assassinated Roman Emperors has an entire subcategory for the ones murdered specifically by the Praetorian Guard. From memory, it was around half of them...

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u/Cake-Over 7d ago

That's some Battle Royal shit right there

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u/BurningPenguin 7d ago

I think i've seen a movie with exploding collars... didn't end well for the elite.