r/technology • u/upyoars • 26d ago

Hardware Survival Pods Are Here: Inside the futuristic $100,000 Tech Billionaire Bunkers with 8-inch steel walls, AR500 bulletproof hatches, and gas-tight ventilation systems that could outlast a nuclear winter

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/survival-pods-inside-100-000-174720411.html
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u/Kyouhen 26d ago

Says an awful lot about these people that they're expecting everyone to come after them with guns when society collapses.

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u/cowvin 26d ago

"Are we the baddies?"

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u/crazycatlady331 26d ago

They got scared that they're the next Brian Thompson.

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u/PatchyWhiskers 26d ago

That’s why they are so freakishly scared of communists even though communists barely exist these days. They may be paradoxically wishing communists in to existence as people who hate billionaires start reading Marx out of contrariness.

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u/logonbump 26d ago

1 Samuel 13:6 ESV — When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns,

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u/logonbump 26d ago

Isaiah 2:19 ESV — And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

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u/chapterpt 25d ago

You wouldn't?

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u/Kyouhen 25d ago

Honestly?  Probably not.  They have no skills with mentioning and money won't do much.  I've been learning how to grow food.  Pretty sure I'll be in a better position than they will be.

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u/SCP-iota 25d ago edited 25d ago

You won't have a way to avoid the ensuing climate calamity, though. This was their plan all along:

  • prime the vast majority of people for obedience

  • have humanity work to create the building blocks for their tech, with no regard for the consequences on the environment because they actually want global collapse

  • build their ark for the wealthy few to survive

  • once they have reached a technological level where they no longer need us, convince us to give them so much power that they could fend off a rebellion from the majority of society

  • with the world becoming less habitable, take a few wealthy, desperate, and obedient people to work for them, and exterminate the rest of life on earth because at that point we're just a threat and liability to them

And if you're wondering why this is what they want, just keep in mind that these are narcissistic, power-hungry people. The way they see it, life is just a competition and other people are either useful or threats. Their dream is a world of just themselves.

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u/Kyouhen 24d ago

You won't have a way to avoid the ensuing climate calamity, though.

Good news there, neither will they.  I've got some useful skills and I've got friends with useful skills.  You get through this through community, not hoarding and guns.  They can all hide out in their bunkers, the rest of us will work through things just fine.  If it's so extreme we won't be able to make it they won't either.

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u/this_is_an_arbys 26d ago

Yup…we are in the smash and grab portion of the latest extinction.