The rich would rather live in an apocalypse than let workers have some more of the wealth that the workers themselves have created.
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Electric motorcycles? Do preppers have an understanding of how gasoline absorbs water from the air and is substantially worse within a matter of months? Even with stabilizer, you get a few years out of it, tops. What are you going to use for the rest of your life?
To be fair, the writers of post-apocalyptic Hollywood movies don't understand it, either.
Create your own gasoline refining plant in your bunker and crank out fuel as you need it? Should be fine because motorcycles don't use a lot of gas. But you would think if you had tons of money you might put some solar panel stuff in storage as well just in case
Could always set up a refinery of sorts.
And while gas absorbs water from the air, I'm sure there is an expensive way to if not outright prevent it, than slow it down way more than current mass adopted storage.
Off the top of my head i imagine some sort of giant glass tank involving vaccums and check valves would at least extend the usable life by a fair amount.
And while there are a lot of popular motorcycles whose gas mileage is little better than a car there are also a good amount with amazing gas mileage.
There's also the possibility of converting the motorcycles to alternate fuel sources like propane or natural gas.
Or as these people are just rich assholes indulging in their fantasies they may really take their cue from movies.
It's ok, they're gathering supplies for the people. Once things start it'll all be in one convient place to take.
I say that when the billionaires retreat into their bunkers we should all cover the entrances and vents with a couple hundred layers of concrete.
They're just building latrines for future civilizations.
There are things called bunker busters too
Those are too fast. I prefer to let them rot.
The crappy thing, is that while they plan on a possible collapse of soceity, they could just as easily plan on what to do about all the displaced workers created, by all their technical solutions seeking problems.
I would like for them to find out the hard way that the characteristics to be a leader in a Neo-liberal capitalistic society are not the same in an apocalyptic wasteland.
And by hard way, I mean that they would be made the fucksock of charismatic warlord.
Theres a book that an advisor for the billionaire bunkers wrote, sorry my phone is glitchy so I can't look it up without abandoning this post. I heard an interview with him where he said he would always circle back to "if you use your vast wealth to improve these societal issues, there isn't a need for a bunker". They won't hear it. They're driving towards the apocalypse because they are all racing to be the richest. Nothing else matters.
fucksock
This is my new favorite image
Yeah, like these attention whores will stay in their bunkers and not come outside, like the ppl constructing them wont target them first to get themselves a fortresss, thats what id do if I made them and we had an apocalypse, id leave myself multiple backdoors
thier BODYGUARD will be the ones to turn on them first, either tha tor thier harems , or thier slaves. take a lesson from indian govt in the 70s, when the ghandi(ghandis family) govt was in power, the pm was murdered(blown up with a bomb) by her sikh bodyguard because the pm decided to persecute them.
this is whats going to happen to these billionaires, they would have to be paranoid as putin to escape potential threats.
india loves israel because they helped them consolidate their power, toppled the last of the sikh empire, punjab still doesnt have water rights, ima bring it up whenever since wikipedia says it was an alleged massacre and only like 100 ppl died when eye witness accounts say 1000s, but ppl trust the government here for some reason
They desginated sikhs a warrior race/caste, made them their body guards, then werenlike hey we're gonna go kill your people protect us lol
Well that was because irsrael trained indian military to do operation bluestar where they massacred hella civilians at the golden temple to get to one dude, which is what they do now lol
at least we know who to rob.
Hilarious and sad considering those techbros are creating the conditions for a possible economic collapse, such as playing with creepto.
Oh yes, kinda reminds me of reading a chapter in World War Z (the book with its dark comedy is still more entertaining than the humorless movie), like how one character found himself on an island full of rich people... Guess what happened next?
If I remember correctly their bodyguards turn on them and kill them in their bunkers.
A parallel, similar would be ghandis govt in the 70s, was murdered by their own bodyguards because the pm was targeting sikh people for persecution.
I think there's a kind of sunk cost fallacy at work with preppers. Many of them start with the notion that it's good to be prepared, just in case. However, being prepared for this sort of thing isn't a casual exercise. It's a whole hobby.
What if the collapse doesn't come? All that time and effort would be wasted. Better do something to make it collapse.
I don't remember who said it, but I think about this comment a lot:
All these billionaires would rather spend their wealth building bunkers for when their actions cause social collapse, instead of trying to prevent social collapse in the first place.
And they all already have, insane, there is our trickle down economics at work, they would rather hoarde and spend every last cent on a bunker right before they drop dead from old age than give back to the world
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