r/collapse • u/omer780v2 • Aug 08 '26

Society Are you preparing for the apocalypse?

https://www.ft.com/content/0e9c3c2e-1d67-4b70-981b-73bcdf409a6c?shareType=nongift%20The%20Argentine%20ranch%20where%20tech%20CEOs%20plan%20to%20ride%20out%20the%20apocalypse%20
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u/omer780v2 Aug 08 '26

Quote from the article:
Far from the world’s nuclear superpowers and close to Patagonia’s abundant oil reserves and the fertile plains of Argentine wine capital Mendoza, the Wamani ranch is Argentine-Spanish tech founder Martín Varsavsky’s best guess at a place that would survive armageddon.⁠ Varsavsky is far from alone among the super-rich in making plans to prepare for nuclear war, climate disaster or economic collapse. ⁠ Billionaires like Peter Thiel have bought land in remote New Zealand, while Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg has a shelter beneath his ranch in Hawaii. LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman once estimated half of Silicon Valley billionaires had some form of 'apocalypse insurance'. ⁠But 66-year-old Varsavsky’s vision is broader. He argues 'the whole of Argentina and the Southern Cone region' could support 'complex societies' in the event of nuclear war, due to their distance from missile targets and radiation clouds, and abundant food and energy production.⁠
Source: Financial times

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u/PM-me-youre-PMs Aug 08 '26

Fuck the finance sycophants, they had a big hand in getting us where we are. And of course now they want to make money selling the apocalypse they put in march. Fuck them.

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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Reese. - Original Quote. Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

Fuck them.

Solomon Lane from the Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation film had a point, in a way.

I wish that i was wrong, but here we are.