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[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 43 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's a reddit sub that is a bit 4chan, everytime someone posts their stupid bugout truck the most upvoted comment is 'when the zombie Apocalypse happens I'm going for you first because I know you have guns and supplies'.

It's one of the only things I miss about reddit, they were bonkers in a usually entertaining way.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It's like the billionaires that build huge apocalypse bunkers and plan to staff them with servants and private military contractors...

If the apocalypse hits the staff would mutiny in days/weeks.

I think that's why there's such a big push to AI. The rich know slaves eventually rebel. And Skynet while possible is less likely than a slave revolt.

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That would never happen to spez because 'I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

I never get tired of that article.

Spez, you are absolutely the first one against the wall.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Yhe best thing to be in a collapse scenario is the random who minds their own business and gets shit done. Nobody is gonna trust the glory hound with an overly inflated ego, but the dude who just wants thing organized so they can start manufacturing tools is probably the most trustworthy.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

They have plans for that like making their security guards wear disciplinary collars. I’m not kidding.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-futurism-transhumanism-singularity

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's why they bought basically all of Lānaʻi: the whole island is their bunker, and it's got a 9-mile-wide moat just to the nearest other Hawaiian island, let alone to North America or Asia.

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Where is there food going to come from?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Lānaʻi itself, probably. It's got a ridiculously low population density and the entire island used to be the world's largest pineapple plantation. Also, fishing in the surrounding waters.

Annoyingly, it's a pretty ideal solution to that issue, too.