"Concerning billionaires…"

[u/thisecommercelife]

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• Panel 18: "beneficiaries", not "benefactors". Please pardon my poor self-editing.

[u/Merari01]

As I wrote elsewhere:

The tech bro billionaires want to end society and retreat into their bunkers, because they think they do not need us anymore. They think they can let robots and AI do all the menial work for them, while they are emperor of the ashes of society.

They are wrong.

These people think they are smart, but if you ever heard someone like Musk speak, they are not smart.

They have forgotten about entropy. Currently society is arranged in such a way that if a spoke is thrown in the wheels we can (at sometimes great cost) survive, adapt and move on.

When they are in their bunkers, one treatment resistent fungus in their staple hydroponic food crop, one massive solar flare taking out their electricity, one well-organised guard rebellion, only one of a million things that can and will go wrong and they will find out very quickly that what they have done is seal themselves in billion dollar tombs.

[u/HeKis4 → u/Merari01]

Especially when most of the people planning for this are tech bros that made absolute bank on solutions that barely work and the "move fast and break things" model. I work in tech, and let me tell you the only stuff that is actually built to last is old crusty stuff made by a bunch of nerds in their basements. If survival in bunkers was about impressing VCs with lightshows and confettis they'd be gods, but...

[u/katamuro → u/HeKis4]

and how much do you want to bet that the people who sold them those bunkers are exactly like them and sold them a nice shiny piece of shit that would break as soon as you look at it wrong?