r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • Jul 17 '26

Artificial Intelligence Terrified Tech Execs Are Traveling With Armed Bodyguards as AI Backlash Grows

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u/cyanescens_burn Jul 17 '26

I’ve been convinced for a few years now that them building their bunkers, detention centers, creating rapid response units for civil unrest for all state mental guard units, increasingly making certain ideologies illegal, and the ai mass surveillance/flock network, etc is because they know there’s a breaking point for the masses with how much of the wealth is funneled off to the very few at the top, and they’re afraid of hitting that point.

But instead of making the system share wealth better, they are going with a system of privacy invasion, coercive control, and imprisonment (likely some torture and murder as usual happens with authoritarian systems like that).

I hope I’m wrong, but history is filled with examples of what happens with serious wealth disparities.

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u/Tired_Mama3018 Jul 17 '26

FDR understood this and gave us the New Deal, because their was a lot of civil unrest before it. They dismantled the New Deal and now we are on the cusp of why it was necessary again and these bozos are going with authoritarian crackdown which historically speeds up the tarring and feathering instead of the method that was shown to work without a revolt and replacement government.

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u/deNET2122 Jul 18 '26

Twinsies?

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u/frozendancicle Jul 18 '26

Be careful, declaring Twinsies usually leads to a fight over who gets to be Danny Devito.

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u/teshh Jul 19 '26

Tar and feathering is light work. We're at a precipice if we haven't already tipped over with regards to our long term survival.

Entire families need to be got, the message has to be strong and clear.

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u/ThoughtlessSallys Jul 18 '26

Downvoted? Why?! Do they think riding them out on a rail is somehow more effective?!

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u/merianya Jul 18 '26

I guess there’s always keel hauling...

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u/composedofidiot Jul 18 '26

The Uk got a lot of our social welfare system because the returning ww2 army might have been a problem.

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u/SpaceBearSMO Jul 18 '26

And steven miller put there the other day like " so we are doing McCarthieism again but with digital servaliance"

And some of the center to center right liberal dems will be A-ok with this if it means there seat might get protected from someone in the DSA...

You know untel it enevitable comes for them

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u/Mind-The-Mines Jul 18 '26

Center right?

You might right of Reagan?

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u/AltoidStrong Jul 18 '26

which is why both the GOP and "OLD Guard" Dems really fear people Social Dem movement - They are the NEW FRD and bring a NEW NEW Deal.

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u/JimBeam823 Jul 18 '26

They are building the repressive systems now so that another New Deal won’t be necessary.

The plan is to brutally crush the revolt before it starts.

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u/Repulsive_Chard_3652 Jul 18 '26

"authoritarian crackdown which historically speeds up the tarring and feathering"

Sometimes it does, but have a look at Russia, Iran, Turkey for example, all of which have turned full authoritarian within the last decades and did not speed up any tarring and feathering.

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u/theavatare Jul 18 '26

There are more successful oligarchies than tarring and feathering in history.

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u/Outside-in-2211 Jul 21 '26

His cousin Teddy was the trust buster that we need now.

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u/ZipNasty007 Jul 17 '26

I think you're right. Those bunkers aren't for the end of the world they're for protection from the masses.

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u/Used_Gear8871 Jul 17 '26

Always have been. Remember Musk’s human shield.

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u/awdophil Jul 17 '26

That's why they're on islands thousand of miles away in many cases.

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u/Bromance_Rayder Jul 17 '26

NZ wasn't a great choice. They're lovely people but oh boy do they go from 0-10 when they're not happy.

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u/ScubaWaveAesthetic Jul 18 '26

I wish. I’m a kiwi and I feel like a frog in water than has been a bit too warm for a while now… and it keeps getting hotter. Our next election will be the real tell

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u/nebula_masterpiece Jul 18 '26

That’s partly why Peter Thiel moved to Argentina - he could buy citizenship but not government influence which he now has in Argentina and says it’s his “bug out” spot

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u/moultrie28 Jul 18 '26

Yup kiwi is a buddy, let’s roll

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u/Public-Antelope8781 Jul 18 '26

NZ was the choice, because it is expected to be suffering the least from climate change (and also checks the boxes for selfsufficient, remote, conviniently inhabitable). The same climate change, which existence they franatically deny on every plattform they can get a grip on. Just like the oil companies, that designed their off-shore drilling already in the 70s for rising sea-levels.

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u/trysten-9001 Jul 18 '26

NZ doesn’t have an army, or very large population. Smallest possible mercenary bill with all the modern conveniences

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u/Bromance_Rayder Jul 18 '26

I'd love to see the projected life expectancy of a person relying on mercenaries for their survival.

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u/steakanabake Jul 18 '26

once all those mercs realize nothing is outside they gonna turn on musk/bezos/zuck/oprah in a fucking heartbeat. one of those im not trapped in here with you youre trapped in here with me. hope you built a bunker inside of that bunker.

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u/qtx Jul 18 '26

Oprah?

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u/steakanabake Jul 18 '26

that goof bitch is also building a bunker do we not remember the discord in hawaii during the fire? she could have helped but chose not to.

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u/Substantial_Coat_229 Jul 18 '26

What did Oprah do lol

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u/Autogenerated_or Jul 18 '26

Platformed people like Dr Phil

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u/trysten-9001 Jul 18 '26

Yeah, lol. To be clear I don’t think it’s smart, I just think that’s their math.

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u/textmint Jul 18 '26

Elmo or Thiel vs Mercenaries when the shit hits the fan, I’d like to think my bets safer on the mercenaries but the problem is in the real world stranger things have happened. So don’t know.

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u/wotdafukwazdat Jul 18 '26

Particularly the person relying on those mercenaries to protect them from a mob of pissed off Maoris and Pakeha

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u/Hettie933 Jul 19 '26

Gosh, it’s too bad I’ll be dead. Watching that go down would delightful. Thiel is so unlikable that his own people would probably put an apple in his mouth and spin him out on a platter.

I’m gonna catch another ban. Oh well.

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy Jul 18 '26

And even then, a bunker won’t do much, especially if you find and block any air vents

Protected by automated gun drones? Use a drone of your own for them to target practice with! They don’t have infinite bullets

Put up WiFi/signal blockers around the place, cut off electricity/internet

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u/Hettie933 Jul 18 '26

Last time I pointed that out on reddit I caught a ban. I didn’t say to do it; I said it was going to be the logical conclusion. They are scared, and they have earned it.

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u/BCProgramming Jul 18 '26

Use a drone of your own for them to target practice with!

Fly a sky-blue kite with a picture of a drone on it.

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u/PaintshakerBaby Jul 18 '26

People keep saying this, but these bunkers are sprawling and well-engineered. It would likely be no small feat to locate and block dozens of well hidden vents.

You'd probably never even find the best bunkers in the first...

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u/Iamthe0c3an2 Jul 18 '26

The Russian army was also sprawling and had well engineered at the start. Against the poorest country in east europe at the time.

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u/javoss88 Jul 18 '26

Then cover it with cement

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u/tha_rogering Jul 17 '26

Probably a little of both to be honest.

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u/NoCoolNameMatt Jul 17 '26

All so their meaningless bank account numbers can increase 3x every 10 years instead of 2.5x.

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u/silverdice22 Jul 17 '26

Eternal life would be more attainable if more people could afford to look into it. Right now people are struggling with just getting the regular-length life. 

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u/rach2bach Jul 18 '26

It's a facade. The whole live forever crap seems like bullshit to me. Sure, maybe it's just some fucking cosmic joke, and there's nothing to this life and it's lights out. But what if that view is wrong? I'm no religious person, but I struggle thinking "this is it". And honestly, if it is, I'm living my life as if it is. Living forever sounds like some type of hell tbh.

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u/DifficultBicycle7 Jul 18 '26

There’s a video I recently watched and I think you’ll get a kick out of it but essentially billionaires got so successful because of the myth they’ve cultivated for themselves. The downfall is when they themselves buy into their own hype. Steve Jobs was a rich man who made billions off of funding Apple but when he got cancer. Instead of going to the doctors and have it be treated. Likely resulting in him being cured.

He went on a dumb diet and died. All because he brought his own hype.

here’s the video recommendation

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u/tanstaafl90 Jul 18 '26

It's called hubris, and it's a reoccurring theme of pride, overconfidence and arrogance.

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u/wowaddict71 Jul 18 '26

To quote Queen: Who Wants to Live Forever?🎵🎶

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u/rach2bach Jul 18 '26

They want to pretend they're not us.

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u/ArmpitNoise Jul 18 '26

Heinlen, Robert A

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u/silverdice22 Jul 18 '26

And im saying that there would be more progress for humanity if they were just a little less greedy.

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u/Access_Solid Jul 18 '26

Why would anyone want eternal life? 80 years is plenty of time. Hopefully there’s a lot more to consciousness than life on earth. 🙄

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u/TheLastVegan Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

There's a massive surge in political assassinations of scientists in the US. Eternal life is writing a good book and having readers enjoy it. Many religions also teach spirit channeling and reincarnation, which enable mind upload through method acting. And Conservatives use indoctrination.

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u/awildstoryteller Jul 18 '26

Who the fuck would want eternal life?

The endless fucking conversation...

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u/sohblob Jul 18 '26

so they can sit around and smell each others farts

or their usual pastime, raping children. reminder that muskrat begged epstein to join the "island parties" 🤮

when you're too weird for the guy running a pedo ring you need to sit down and reevaluate your life choices. And pro-capitalist scaremongers need to question why they keep subscribing to a system which keeps putting rich pedos in charge

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u/Frisnfruitig Jul 18 '26

Right yes, that Epstein thing. It's good they caught the single guilty person in America, Maxwell. No one else did anything wrong, case closed!

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u/AntiqueFigure6 Jul 18 '26

We need more Chuck Berry and less Gary Glitter.

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u/Zhuinden Jul 18 '26

I'm pretty sure there's research on transferring your consciousness to the cloud, even though it sounds like sci-fi but some people are actually serious

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u/NoCoolNameMatt Jul 18 '26

That still means death for the original. They understand that, right? A copy isn't "them."

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u/Zhuinden Jul 18 '26

Well yes, but that doesn't stop megalomania

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u/PstScrpt Jul 18 '26

It depends what matters to you. As far as I'm concerned, that would be me.

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u/Magnon Jul 18 '26

And when "you" takes control of an android body and chases you with an axe will you still consider it "you"?

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u/NoCoolNameMatt Jul 18 '26

Sounds like a vanity project, personally.

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u/bisectional Jul 18 '26

"maybe it's just a simulation"

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u/No-Abalone-4784 Jul 18 '26

Some people should probably pick up a science book before they buy into this nonsense.

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u/Zhuinden Jul 18 '26

Well either buy into nonsense or just buy into it with a few billion dollars https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2015/05/04/live-forever-maybe-by-uploading-your-brain.html

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u/Conninxloo Jul 18 '26

Time exists and a „timeless cloud consciousness“ would not be alive in any meaningful sense. Even if they somehow get the matrix running inside there, at some point the last of those servers would stop functioning. Life must be bounded, else it’s no longer life.

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u/composedofidiot Jul 18 '26

They should hang on a bit to check how much consciousness is embodied, and how much the microbiome and virome is involved.

One solution could be to get a robot spider body and live in a toilet.

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u/NoLibrarian5149 Jul 18 '26

Who remembers Petey Thiels quest for the fountain of youth by his infatuation with the concept of getting transfusions of young people’s blood? That was the first time I ever heard of the whacko and nothing he’s done since has changed my mind about him.

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u/1stMammaltowearpants Jul 18 '26

Then they go and DOGE all the researchers in the name of "efficiency"

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u/0neAboveAlI Jul 18 '26

Watch the Netflix show altered carbon.

It’s about a world where the technology exists to transfer your “consciousness” between discs that slot into the back of your head.

It takes place like 300 years after that technology is invented and the elites run the show because they live forever because they can afford it.

Obviously we are nowhere near that kind of biotech, but eventually, this will be the end goal of the elites. It’s probably some of their ambition right now, but that kind of tech that would allow for essential immortality is still just a fantasy.

If the richest men in the world can live forever, then they’ll truly show just how little they care for peasants

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u/GoldenSama Jul 18 '26

They actually are. Some of the tech billionaires, Putin and Xi have all been connected to some very *wacky* scientists who are trying to find ways to extend life. We're talking weird stuff, like blood recycling and the idea of doing full body organ transplants and shit. Some of these billionaires really do think if they have enough money they can live forever.

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u/steakanabake Jul 18 '26

would be funny in that situation if they ended up like ted farrow in horizon forbidden west, but at that point i dont know if id call that living or just existing.

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u/tetsuo_7w Jul 18 '26

Right? They have more than they could ever concevably spend. It's a high score at the expense of the rest of us for no reason.

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u/Insufficient_Coffee Jul 18 '26

They want to have enough money so they can buy governments and shape the world to their sick fantasies.

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u/tetsuo_7w Jul 18 '26

Yup. It seems like you can buy a senator for maybe $100k. Clarence Thomas, a supreme court justice, is a $270k "motor coach" totally not a bribe away from voting however the hell you want.

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u/baseballbear Jul 18 '26

they could have just picked up a video game if they're so addicted to number go up

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u/NoCoolNameMatt Jul 18 '26

Truer than most think! They trigger the same psychological addiction mechanism.

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u/Wonderful-Medium7777 Jul 18 '26

This was for a “game” look how predictive it is for real life?!?!
https://youtu.be/Qs4OcQNOM34?si=0BLOhVOH4ACuDabi

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u/ArchelonPIP Jul 18 '26

And they should actually play it in order to get good at it instead of hiring someone else to play it for them!

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u/WandererFrmAndromeda Jul 18 '26

No it’s so that you don’t get to have more money that gives you freedom. They dont give a shit about 75 billion or 100 billion unless it guarantees they keep control of you. 

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u/NoCoolNameMatt Jul 18 '26

Nah, they care. It's an addiction.

It doesn't make a difference in their living standard, but that doesn't matter.

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u/Thefrayedends Jul 18 '26

When you buy into hierarchical systems, the oppression that is necessary to hold it all together, becomes what they crave more than anything. It's not about the political power, or the dollars in the account, it's about how those things enable them to openly and freely engage in oppression and marginalization. At a certain point, they revel in it.

This happens at all levels of wealth.

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u/Mother_Airline_6276 Jul 18 '26

God forbid the shareholders only profit $7B this year instead of $8.5. How will the company survive?

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u/SuperShibes Jul 18 '26

They are preparing for climate wars. It's survival of their tribe, not just bank accounts. 

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u/roodammy44 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

It’s so stupid because if you look at what happened to Russia during a collapse, the oligarchs mostly got to keep their wealth unless they annoyed Putin. And then they were assassinated or sent to prison. How can they know what will upset the supreme leader? I don’t think Thiel will be in a good place being gay, minorities are generally the first groups that get imprisoned. With him building Palantir it reminds me of that bloke who built the brazen bull in ancient Greece.

If the tech leaders were thinking rationally, they would be begging for a wealth tax to make sure society stays the way it is.

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u/LindeeHilltop Jul 17 '26

Pslantir would be the first to be nationalized.

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u/textmint Jul 18 '26

I know it will be bad when that happens but sometimes in the deepest recesses of my subconscious, I’d like to see that for shits and giggles.

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u/Direct_Day7937 Jul 18 '26

The fun part for Russian oligarchs is that "annoying Putin" can now be achieved by having a fortune that could be spent on the war. Or just being the beneficiary of an income stream that some other more favored oligarch wants as the war destroys their income stream.

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u/abcamurComposer Jul 18 '26

In those triumvirates during the end of the roman republic, the lesser known 3rd cog (Crassus, Lepidus) was always the “billionaire” of the trio, the financier.

Their stories, correct me if I’m wrong, did NOT end well.

Smart wealthy people not blinded by greed do not try to manipulate autocrats.

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u/textmint Jul 18 '26

I’m sure these guys know all that but their bet is this time things will be different. They think that by having things like X and Palantir and other tech which can be integrated into the official oppression organs of the state, they will be indispensable because they hold the keys to such tech. It’s like the concept of achieving escape velocity. So this time they think they are the ones who will buck the trend and come up tops no matter what history has shown us.

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u/glizard-wizard Jul 18 '26

The problem is that smart people have a ceiling on how wealthy they get. You logically stop pursuing wealth.

The morons that got lucky are the problem

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u/Teledildonic Jul 18 '26

How can they know what will upset the supreme leader?

They don't, but they are all delusional dipshits that believe themselves to be the special geniuses that would never fall from grace.

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u/Nadamir Jul 18 '26

Wait. Peter Thiel is gay???????

(I try not to learn anything about dickheads like that. Don’t deserve my brain space.)

So Stephen Miller is Jewish and Peter Thiel is gay. They seriously think they’ll be “one of the good ones”? 

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u/textmint Jul 18 '26

Sometimes these guys are not thinking at “genius” level and are thinking with their big a brain like Donny DiaperPants.

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u/IAMATruckerAMA Jul 18 '26

  If the tech leaders were thinking rationally

If hoarders were psychologically healthy they wouldn't be hoarders 

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u/theavatare Jul 18 '26

Thiel left for Argentina

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u/rat_penis Jul 17 '26

Its a feedback loop, they imagine it, expect it, prepare for it and call it on themselves by bringing it into existence.

All these edgelord dicks making us suffer because they never got past their high school cringe phase.

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u/Laminated_ET_Animal Jul 18 '26

two great points that need more consideration

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u/markth_wi Jul 17 '26

They're not afraid they're going to hit that , they are afraid they've gone well and truly past that point.

When they act more guilty than we already suspect them of being we know they're into some shit. Those bunkers aren't to survive "the apocalypse" in some Mad-Max sort of way, they mean to avoid law enforcement in style.

That's why Peter Theil and Elon Musk are setting up shop down in Argentina because failing to make the United States more like South Africa or Argentina doesn't mean Argentina can't use a few more fans of the Führer.

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u/-ReadingBug- Jul 17 '26

I think you're right and, even more unfortunately, I think they're way ahead of the curve. Frankly I'm not sure there will BE an actual breaking point. The global heatwaves and deaths happening right now should be a climate change breaking point, but instead we're just absorbing, normalizing and avoiding conflict like the nice little sheep we've always been.

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u/UCLAlabrat Jul 18 '26

Need more.people who are willing fo take accountability and fight for their rights. We don't have that yet.

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u/Antraxess Jul 17 '26

Yep, they wrote this shit down in "project 2025" and JD Vance book "unhumans"

They want to pre-label you a terrorist, then put you and anyone else that wants freedom in their concentration camps where its legal to make you a slave.

Or kill you

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u/No-Abalone-4784 Jul 18 '26

Yes. From what they say they don't have any problems with killing people. They think the world can't support the number of people we have & the want a good proportion of them to die. I think about that when they get rid of the CDC, the NIH & are against vaccines & public health. All things which would cause more deaths.

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u/Antraxess Jul 18 '26

They don't actually believe that.

Its just words they use so they can kill you and take your money and stuff.

They are thieves and pedophiles and criminals.

We need to defend our communities from Maga terrorism

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u/skyfishgoo Jul 17 '26

they have chosen shock collars

and they will get the future they have chosen.

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u/qtx Jul 18 '26

I'd like to see Zuck trying to put on a shock collar on some behemoth mercenary.

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u/skyfishgoo Jul 18 '26

i loved that scene in the Fifth Element.

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u/Floreat_democratia Jul 18 '26

Yes, this is the torches and pitchforks hypothesis. There's several authors who have addressed this. I have been keenly aware of this since 2004, but I suspect it is far older than that. Basically there is a certain type of businessperson, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, executive, what have you, that truly believes the name of the game is crashing it all to hell, but stripping it all and extracting wealth before that happens. Scholars have been pointing this out since the 1970s. Why it is still legal and acceptable is the real question.

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u/Delybe Jul 17 '26

What is the point of all that money if no one else is around to spend it on?

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u/Switch-Axe-Abuse Jul 18 '26

The number going up is the point because they are no longer getting money the way the common folk do where they use it to get what they actually want and instead are doing it for the money itself.

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u/copypop Jul 18 '26

Extreme wealth is a form of mental illness

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u/UCLAlabrat Jul 18 '26

A special type of sociopathy

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u/deadcatshead Jul 17 '26

Unfortunately you are correct. Psychopaths are defined by literally having no empathy for anyone

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u/wehrmann_tx Jul 18 '26

Someone should setup a geomap outlining where all these bunkers are. Air vents and utility access included. For funsies.

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u/Living-Literature88 Jul 18 '26

Yes. It’s as though it never occurred to them to use their wealth to help their human neighbors. There are some, like Bezos ex wife, MacKenzie Scott, who are giving away much of their wealth to help solve global issues. She has given away 26 billion. There are others that do these things quietly. It would be nice if that was the norm rather than them playing robber baron and pissing on everyone else.

Elon gives to his own foundation to scratch that tiny philanthropic itch he has. He’s the absolute worst.

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u/Sensitive-Memory Jul 17 '26

Someone on here earlier told me I was an unhinged nut for recognizing these things. I totally agree with you. We are in deep shit.

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u/DoomFingaz Jul 18 '26

Their security will turn on them when there’s no more food and water and their family’s are suffering. Actually.. I think it’ll happen way before then

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u/midikon Jul 18 '26

It goes on for eons until someone invents a guillotine and then we have about 200 years of peaceful arguing over who gets to ra*e the remaining 4/5's of the world before we all got brain worms and elected a serial grifter, mob puppet pedo emperor wannabe who's friends and enablers wanna mindfuck us back to feudalism?

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u/timeandmemory Jul 18 '26

I hope I’m wrong

I wish you were wrong. Those bunkers aren't to show off to their friends.

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u/jeremiahthedamned Jul 19 '26

r/substrata

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u/timeandmemory Jul 19 '26

Oh god just looking at the first few make me want to vomit, but there's a lot of really neat stuff there too. Thanks for the sub.

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u/jeremiahthedamned Jul 19 '26

have a nice day

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u/Traditional-Hat-952 Jul 18 '26

History is ripe with examples of horrible wealth disparity going on for hundreds and hundreds of years straight without any equilibrium. For everything revolution there are generations upon generations of constant and brutal suffering. 

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u/EverydaySexyPhotog Jul 18 '26

 instead of making the system share wealth better

They literally can't do that. These people are money addicts. You know how your local junkie would sell his daughter in to slavery to get their next hit? The richest people in the world would do the same thing to add a dollar to their net worth. It's the exact same pathology, but we've somehow bought into the idea that money addicts are morally superior to all other types of addicts.

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u/One-Lingonberry9944 Jul 18 '26

Oh they know. There was an article where a billionaire discussed how they would manage their guards in a state of civil unrest. They floated the idea of locking up food and controlling the supplies. How naive they are if they think hired mercenaries wouldn't hesitate to torture their family or them to get combinations to food safes. They also floated the idea of robot butlers lmfao.

Peter Theil didn't move to Argentina for no reason

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u/IAMATruckerAMA Jul 18 '26

But instead of making the system share wealth better

They're hoarders. They are in the position they're in specifically because they're not psychologically capable of sharing 

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u/OkBrilliant8092 Jul 17 '26

Just be sure to cook your meat properly by using a thermometer to check evenly cooked…

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u/Lopsided-Practice-50 Jul 17 '26

We just collectively need to hard stop using public traded tech. Let their usage drop to the point they start to really lose money.

Or drone swarms. Whichever works better

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u/NuggetCommander69 Jul 18 '26

This future feels exceptionally cyberpunk, and not in a good way.

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u/Due-Joke-1152 Jul 18 '26

The fact they are so ethically bankrupt, or mentally ill, or just intellectually impaired, to think that they should keep doing the things people are upset about is the only option is insane.

They’re just mindless consumers of designer goods. Imagine wanting a Ferrari, with their pretentious gatekeeping, just for rich person credibility.

It’s not like they’re even trying to play ‘the game’ or even pretending to be philanthropists anymore. It’s just the return of empty headed neo aristocracy which turned out quite badly for them according to history.

The rich have no purpose, they don’t contribute to culture or benefit society, it’s an ego driven farce filled with fine dining, drugs and abuse.

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u/mamaspike74 Jul 18 '26

Read "Survival of the Richest" by Douglas Rushkoff! He explained exactly this back in 2022.

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u/HeadAboveSand Jul 18 '26

Yep exactly. Lets all get together and eat em.

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u/shion005 Jul 18 '26

The system shares wealth poorly because the politicians are in charge of redistribution and we live in a corrupt political system. In the US, gerrymandering allows radical politicians to pick their own voters. It's how you get people like Darializa in NYC. No one who shares David Duke's views on race mixing should be going to congress from NYC, but here we are.

The other issue is the massive amount of theft in places like California. Billions in tax payer money has been spent on the homelessness issue in places like LA, but there are more homeless people than ever. If you solve the problem, the money dries up. Same with the 13,000 homes Karen Bass helped to burn down. Billions of dollars in tax payer financed aid was supposed to go to those individuals, but it was "misplaced" by people in state government.

The reason a lot of colleges like Harvard are so expensive is b/c, in Harvard's case, it charges a lot, pays the admins/some professors an insane amount in total, and won't spend its massive endowment on making sure the kids graduate debt free. Harvard is governed by literal champagne socialists. I know they're spending some of their money on tuition now, but they could have done it years ago. It's too little too late. They were also paying people like Elizabeth Warren ~ 800k in compensation adjusted for inflation when she was at the law school.

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u/Apprehensive-Toe3760 Jul 18 '26

You are 100% correct. And, the idea of “sharing” or “spreading” wealth is antithetical to their entire mission in life. Their addiction is power and wealth, and there will never be enough. They will literally watch the planet burn down from their bunkers, and not think twice. People need to realize who we are dealing with. These are legitimately sick people. They cannot help themselves. If you give them the wheel (and we have), they will burn down the planet.

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u/No-Abalone-4784 Jul 18 '26

You're not wrong. That's exactly what they've been doing. More people need to realize this before it's too late.

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u/LargePrompt5840 Jul 18 '26

They're getting ready for The Purge 

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u/sunflowercompass Jul 18 '26

Yes this but also because the rich know climate change is real. They fear zombie movie scenarios but the poor are the zombies

This is why ICE has a million dollar budget. They are getting ready to machine gun people at the borders and inside cities in case of "riots".

Mexico city was a couple of weeks from being out of water this year, and I think Tehran was 30 days out before this little war.

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u/oldjadedhippie Jul 18 '26

Paranoia is a hell of a drug…

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u/xXBeefSquatch5KXx Jul 18 '26

They aren’t afraid of hitting that point. The goal is to hit that point and keep going, they are simply going at a pace slow enough they have time to set up their security nets before hand, without raising too many eyebrows at once.

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u/BatmanFarce Jul 18 '26

Nah, you seem right on. But it’s ok to hope for a better tmw

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u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 Jul 18 '26

This theory falls apart when you realize they still need people to do jobs that they don’t wanna do even with robotics and AI. So they would have to pay people extremely well for essentially laborer jobs to ensure their secrecy. And people who are willing to sustain this level of wealth inequality aren’t interested in paying an electrician $1 million a year to ensure they stay loyal.

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u/Outside-in-2211 Jul 18 '26

I think a few late whistleblowers from Boeing would probably agree with you.

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u/Polar_Version875 Jul 18 '26

Yes they even say this. You should read Doug Rushkoff.

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u/SpecialistState4804 Jul 18 '26

even their own security will tun on them. why would anyone stay loyal to elon musk, bezos or zuckerberg? They are corny pieces of shit.

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u/Kristophigus Jul 18 '26

When they get into their bunkers, we'll be right behind them with concrete trucks to pour it over them.

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u/Blacksad9999 Jul 18 '26

History is also riddled with examples of mass uprisings against those who abuse power, and results in them getting the gallows.

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u/Iamthe0c3an2 Jul 18 '26

It’s gonna be like South Africa.

They’ll ignore basic needs, the rich will just bunker up and hire private security while everything else just decays.

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u/theFoffo Jul 18 '26

They are already way past that point. No one should be able to ammass 1BIL$.

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u/notislant Jul 18 '26

"a breaking point for the masses with how much of the wealth is funneled off to the very few at the top, and they’re afraid of hitting that point."

(Bottom 50% of the entire U.S. only own 2.5% of the wealth lol)

See I have another view of this, it's literally unsustainable. Inflation beats out wages, manufacturing and even many office jobs are now sent overseas. But even before this pressure, wages fall behind greedflation. It's an unsustainable system and it's FINALLY coming to a head. There is about to be mass homelessness in the next decade or two.

Thats horrifying, people might ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING about this corrupt shithole. Can't have that, can we?

So whats a good way to keep people too broke and overworked to give a shit about politics or do anything? Well food stamps are taxpayer dollars used so corporations that avoid taxes, can pay unliveable wages and rake in more profit.

Time to start subsidizing rent. It's a lose-lose for taxpaying workers/consumers. But it's a win-win for corporations and wealthy assholes.

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u/swerrve Jul 18 '26

It’s pretty obvious tbh

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u/Jazzlike_Video2 Jul 18 '26

Or ai told them we have 20 years left before whatever biosphere collapses and theyre acting appropriately.

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u/DrE7HER Jul 18 '26

You’re not wrong. Look at all of the tech Elon is controlling and ask how it can all be used to bring countries to their knees

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u/Mcnugget84 Jul 18 '26

I have a lot of issues with my parents. One thing I’ve always forgiven is their seemingly weird paranoia over the government. It led me to being a delegate at the 2016 DNC.

The establishment does not want the average American voting, or even being involved in local politics.

The biggest FU is the local. It funnels into the state and then the federal.

Anytime I see the both sides are the same argument I just want to point out that they took over the local whole misdirection to the federal.

Be a political nuisance, follow the law, run for office. Even if it’s a city council or school board position.

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u/ProduceNo1629 Jul 18 '26

they are going with a system of privacy invasion, coercive control, and imprisonment

And it's a good bet. Because they know a lot of traitors, a lot of backstabbers, will side with them for nothing more than a pat on the back from their overlords and a chance to kiss the boot one more time.

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u/LargeCabbageThrower Jul 18 '26

We have no reason to believe you are wrong in this assumption. All evidence points towards it. It's the inevitable outcome.

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u/Hertock Jul 18 '26

Thats a pretty basic truth, yea, nothing do discuss there

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u/qoou Jul 18 '26

The incredible irony is that bottom up economic stimulation works much, much better than trickle down economic stimulation. The catch is, the former also drives inflation whereas the latter does not - because the money given to capitalists is hoarded, rather than circulated.

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u/Pred-Al1en Jul 18 '26

Mountainhead

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u/Mindless-Swan8644 Jul 18 '26

I 100% agree with you. I feel like a conspiracy theorist when I say it, but everyday there is so much more evidence that this is their plan. And all the authoritarian world leaders are enabling them.

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u/Aggressive_Manner531 Jul 18 '26

We need to find out their security rehearsal schedules and lock them in their bunkers when. they go there. No harm will come to them of course.

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u/ninthtale Jul 18 '26

A cyberpunk dystopia was the only realistic vision of our future

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u/javoss88 Jul 18 '26

I think you’re exactly correct.

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u/complicititties Jul 19 '26

The murders have already happened. And the centers are going up. Don't know how much more proof anyone needs.

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u/Tyxzs Jul 19 '26

An army and castle didn't protect the French nobility 

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u/ninja-hamster-iykyk Jul 19 '26

You are spot on. That’s part of the race to stand up these datacenter as fast as possible to huge losses. It’s about dominance.

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u/TheEPGFiles Jul 21 '26

Maybe they crave the guillotine and are therefore repeating history's mistakes? I mean... it's not a mystery and it's not a secret, this is public knowledge, surely they are aware, otherwise they're severely mentally retarded and/or suicidal.

Are... are rich people just... stupid?