This is such a completely useless approach to a long-term problem; those kinds of measure can help you weather a short-term crisis like a riot, but are completely worthless when dealing with long-term slow-moving crises which utterly sap the wealth of society.
It ends up giving you the post-apocalyptic barnyard look of the descendants of the formerly-wealthy robber barons of the first gilded age had when they tried to hang onto their mansions.
I’m always intrigued by this. Let’s say you spend 500 million $ and you build the biggest, baddest, state-of-the-art bunker that can safely house your family, staff and your private army. If everything goes to hell what guarantee is there that a rogue body guard won’t kill you, take over the bunker and live happily ever after?
“I’m going to huddle in my secure end of the lifeboat rather than help bail water in the storm”.
I heard a radio/podcast piece on the world going Mad Max/Elysium/Panem/take your pick, and one of the interviewees was a security contractor.
He said that one of his megarich clients once asked him what the best way was to ensure the loyalty of “their people”. His answer was simply ‘treat them well’.
Wealth is not leadership.
If a true civilisation ending disaster comes, wealth will certainly mean nothing; and may just be a big black mark against any plutocrat survivors.
What’s hilarious is they expect to live in these isolated communities through whatever crisis with enough water, food, and supplies to last them several years if not the end of their natural life. Have they thought about what happens if some piece of farming or power equipment breaks? How are they going to get spares or someone competent enough to fix the issue?
Or how about if there’s a disease plaguing their crops or livestock. How are you going to get the right treatment and skilled labor to fix the issue? What happens if there’s a total crop failure, what then? Will being isolated really be that beneficial when people are starving and blame you?
My prediction is, if this happens, then the ones left behind will have the upper hand. There may be a lot of distractions but the people left behind will have access to all the leftover equipment, land, infrastructure, universities, etc. Plus those that remain are likely to be very skilled and will create better societies than the ones the billionaires left. After a billionaire’s equipment breaks they’ll be begging for parts from those left behind.
A bad omen
Someone made a comment that billionaires are like dragons in their vault sitting on a horde of gems and gold that the dwarves mined for them.
Or they’re the grasshoppers in bugs life…
Eventually the ants and dwarves reclaim their hard work…
Unless u replace the workers with robots then that’s a different story.
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This is such a completely useless approach to a long-term problem; those kinds of measure can help you weather a short-term crisis like a riot, but are completely worthless when dealing with long-term slow-moving crises which utterly sap the wealth of society.
It ends up giving you the post-apocalyptic barnyard look of the descendants of the formerly-wealthy robber barons of the first gilded age had when they tried to hang onto their mansions.
I’m always intrigued by this. Let’s say you spend 500 million $ and you build the biggest, baddest, state-of-the-art bunker that can safely house your family, staff and your private army. If everything goes to hell what guarantee is there that a rogue body guard won’t kill you, take over the bunker and live happily ever after?
“I’m going to huddle in my secure end of the lifeboat rather than help bail water in the storm”.
I heard a radio/podcast piece on the world going Mad Max/Elysium/Panem/take your pick, and one of the interviewees was a security contractor.
He said that one of his megarich clients once asked him what the best way was to ensure the loyalty of “their people”. His answer was simply ‘treat them well’.
Wealth is not leadership.
If a true civilisation ending disaster comes, wealth will certainly mean nothing; and may just be a big black mark against any plutocrat survivors.
What’s hilarious is they expect to live in these isolated communities through whatever crisis with enough water, food, and supplies to last them several years if not the end of their natural life. Have they thought about what happens if some piece of farming or power equipment breaks? How are they going to get spares or someone competent enough to fix the issue?
Or how about if there’s a disease plaguing their crops or livestock. How are you going to get the right treatment and skilled labor to fix the issue? What happens if there’s a total crop failure, what then? Will being isolated really be that beneficial when people are starving and blame you?
My prediction is, if this happens, then the ones left behind will have the upper hand. There may be a lot of distractions but the people left behind will have access to all the leftover equipment, land, infrastructure, universities, etc. Plus those that remain are likely to be very skilled and will create better societies than the ones the billionaires left. After a billionaire’s equipment breaks they’ll be begging for parts from those left behind.
A bad omen
Someone made a comment that billionaires are like dragons in their vault sitting on a horde of gems and gold that the dwarves mined for them.
Or they’re the grasshoppers in bugs life…
Eventually the ants and dwarves reclaim their hard work…
Unless u replace the workers with robots then that’s a different story.