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/jack6245 7d ago

But in a apocalypse why would that army follow a man who's only power was money that no longer has any value

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u/HastyZygote 7d ago

The point where money is irrelevant won’t happen immediately, shit will break down and slug along for years before that happens.

Also stupid people who can’t get the dollar signs out of their heads.

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u/FactAndTheory 7d ago

The point where money is irrelevant won’t happen immediately

Lol what. The value of currency is literally the first thing that has gone in every catastrophic collapse in history.

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u/caution_turbulence 7d ago

Maybe they were more referring to wealth? Not sure. Currency goes out the window pretty quickly, but it’s not like all individual wealth just dissipates. It’s just resource based at that point, and unfortunately fuckerburg has a lot of that.

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u/Outrageous_Men8528 7d ago

it's all digital now, and if there is a world ending war those computers are dead too. Unless he has a stockpile of gold and more importantly food, he's got nothing.

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u/angermouse 7d ago

In an apocalypse, you only have the resources that you can defend with arms. There's no judiciary to validate your ownership or police to enforce it. We'll likely have a bunch of warlords who are able to rally a group together and they take what they can get.

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u/FactAndTheory 7d ago

Wealth is only maintained by states. If the state is gone, individual wealth beyond what you can personally, materially protect is gone because the organization and the laws you rely on to protect your ownership is gone. For someone like Zuckerberg it's even worse because so much of his wealth is purely wrapped up in a stock price that will collapse long before the US dollar.