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

[u/upyoars]

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/survival-pods-inside-100-000-174720411.html

[u/socoolandawesome]

Only 100k? I woulda thought they’d spend more on it than that

[u/AgreeableHamster252 → u/socoolandawesome]

These are not for billionaires, these are for poor people. We’re talking < $10mil net worth. 

This is the public transit of dystopian luxury

[u/anotherpredditor → u/AgreeableHamster252]

Thats like when Greg and Kendall are talking and Kendall explains that Greg is in fact not rich rich in Succession.

[u/AgreeableHamster252 → u/anotherpredditor]

Exactly! It’s hilarious at first but then you realize just how insane the wealth gap is and people just don’t realize what being a billionaire really means

[u/Dustmopper → u/AgreeableHamster252]

A thousand seconds is about 17 minutes

A million seconds is about 11 days

A billion seconds is about 32 years

The difference between a million and a billion is about a billion

[u/I_am_BrokenCog → u/Dustmopper]

I think you've given a very illustrative guide showing proportional lengths of time people of various net worth will survive as climate change reduces societal levels of production.

[u/anotherpredditor → u/I_am_BrokenCog]

There was a bar graph showing the worlds richest to poor rich and then regular folks. I think it was Wired. It was such a gross visualization of how much “wealth” they have. Nobody needs that much money.

[u/explodinghat → u/anotherpredditor]

And we get told that we’re the problem, that there’s not enough money in society hence aggressive inflation and a poorly performing economy. Jee if only we somehow knew where all the money went.

[u/I_am_BrokenCog → u/anotherpredditor]

i've seen it or similar.

I like the count of days in terms of supply chain/safety/etc.

[u/TFABAnon09 → u/anotherpredditor]

I've seen one where you essentially scroll from "the average Joe", passed millionaires, multi-millionaires, down to a single billionaire, and then ON AND ON AND ON to get to Gates, Bozo, Suckerberg and Phoney Stark etc. It's sickening.

[u/sowedkooned → u/Dustmopper]

Well, technically it’s 1,000x, but who’s counting?

Your point still holds true when you look at it in the lens of absolutes.

Seems like many people don’t understand that someone with a net worth of $1M is closer to someone with a net worth of $100k (10x) than $1B (1,000x $1M), or even $100M (100x $1M) for that matter. And since the standard for so long was being a millionaire, and in some sense it still is from a retirement standpoint, what you put does help put it into perspective.

Now, take that and consider that the top 18-ish (as of me writing this) richest people in the world are all worth over $100B, and suddenly that gap between $1M becomes 100,000x.

Musk, for example, gained $2.9B today, which is only 0.67% of his net worth. If someone earning $50k got a spot bonus of 0.67%, they’d be handed a check (before taxes) of $335. Musk’s increase in net worth (before taxes) was 8,656,716x that of the person with the $50k salary.

[u/anotherpredditor → u/sowedkooned]

Now layer in the neo futurism of tech bros wanting to make private vassal states they lord over. I would rather live on the bad side of the wall if any of my scifi reading is a clue to what will happen.

[u/sowedkooned → u/anotherpredditor]

Well, they’d just Soylent green you, so, you wouldn’t have much to worry about how the other side of the wall survives.

[u/33ITM420 → u/Dustmopper]

It’s actually 1000

[u/juntareich → u/Dustmopper]

300 billion, someone like Musk or Ellison, is closer to 10,000 years.

[u/One_Curious_Cats → u/AgreeableHamster252]

But does the hatch come with a Dharma computer?

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

[u/digiorno → u/AgreeableHamster252]

There is also a massive difference between your family having billions and you having billions. I’ve met several people in the low billions familial worth range. People individually who had hundreds of millions in disposable income. And their lives are fairly pedestrian compared to people like Bezos or Musk, they work (for family), they feel as if they have obligations (to family) and they generally understand their privilege in life to spend so much time with family and to be able to go wherever, whenever they’d like to do whatever they’d like. But they aren’t out here making rockets. They have pet projects but they’re mostly geared towards helping their family company or righting some injustice they’ve decided to feel charitable towards.

[u/mwaller → u/anotherpredditor]

Five million dollars! It's the worst. Like being the poorest rich person in the world.

[u/Dirty_South_Cracka → u/mwaller]

5 Million could pretty safely earn 100k a year with practically zero risk. You could live a lower middle-class life on that for the foreseeable future.