How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse

[Catskillkid]

How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse

It's concerning that these multi-billionaires are seriously concerned that the end of world is nigh (what do they know that we don't?). I also find it laughable that these same people who, in all likelihood, are socially liberal and support gun control for the masses, are legitimately concerned about how their armed guards are going to react once TEOTWAWKI happens and the usual form of compensation (money) will be worthless. Well boys, I got news for you. When the SHTF and its either you or your bodyguards and their families, you can bet that big expensive bunker you just built ain't going to be housing you and your Van Gogh collection. Especially if they have guns and you don't.

 

[Blimey]

Watching on Netflix a show about amazing interiors and one guy was outfitting a bunker. Some military base in CA has 575 of these bunkers. He is outfitting them to sell.

I still don’t get why these people want to live in a bunker? Awful environment, terrible security, too. Somebody with a jackhammer or pickaxe could take his time making a hole then smoke you out or whatever.

The only rich guy I ever saw on doomsday preppers worth a damn had trained to fly a helicopter and planned to evac his family to a remote location. Buy 200 acres in the middle of nowhere, build a cabin with shielded walls and windows and a helipad.

 

[Jmac00]

they are all cowards if the SHTF or TEOTWAWKI hits, they will only last a few months before they run out of everything anyway. these people aren't smart enough to last very long

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

It is very interesting/concerning that some of the uber elite millionaires and billionaires are concerned enough to be allocating their time and resources into SHTF escape plans/bunkers. They are smart enough to see what's coming. They probably have access to advanced computer modeling, algorithms, political insider connections etc.. That is indicating a trend towards some event that they are aware of having a certain % risk of occurring.

I remember reading a different article a year ago about the silicon valley millionaires who are now all into prepping.
A bunch of them are buying up property in New Zealand. Others were getting PRK/lasik surgery to not be dependent on glasses in SHTF, others were buying bunkers, some were converting old missile silos. Etc..



We should emulate their concern. If they are concerned we need to be as well.

 

[Magnus]

There was a wealthy hedge fund type in Dobbs Ferry, building a house a few years back. He was trying to get every green energy tax relief possible so he hired the firm I worked for. I was just starting out so I was more in the background admiring his floor plans. I looked at one room at the front were these ducts in an empty space. On that space he had drawn dead bodies lol. I assumed it was either dumping Oxygen free nitrogen in there out pulling the air out.

 

[tirwin1]

Absent a huge environmental disaster I think the fears of economic disaster are overblown. We see examples of what is possible in Venezuela, South Africa and prior to that Argentina. Life is very, very difficult but it still goes on. There the best approach will be to leave, which the rich will be able to do much easier than the rest of us.

Now, in a true environmental disaster all bets are off. If the "big one" hits the west coast, the yellowstone caldera erupts and the new madrid fault goes off all at the same time - then we are screwed. That is as close to complete collapse that we can get. It doesn't help the pacific "ring of fire" has been recording a lot of earthquakes recently:

Over The Last 7 Days Our Planet Has Been Violently Shaken By 144 Major Earthquakes

Just another thing to worry about.

 

[ArmedCorgi]

I'm more worried about falling into the wrong front hole.

 

[Defilade]

Ill take a Mountain lake house and a pot plant. I'm good!

 

[Blimey]

Absent a huge environmental disaster I think the fears of economic disaster are overblown. We see examples of what is possible in Venezuela, South Africa and prior to that Argentina. Life is very, very difficult but it still goes on. There the best approach will be to leave, which the rich will be able to do much easier than the rest of us.

Now, in a true environmental disaster all bets are off. If the "big one" hits the west coast, the yellowstone caldera erupts and the new madrid fault goes off all at the same time - then we are screwed. That is as close to complete collapse that we can get. It doesn't help the pacific "ring of fire" has been recording a lot of earthquakes recently:

Over The Last 7 Days Our Planet Has Been Violently Shaken By 144 Major Earthquakes

Just another thing to worry about.

I really have a hard time coming up with realistic scenarios in which these bug out locations are valuable and viable. If it's so bad that even being rich, in the US means you can't stay in your own home, it's probably due to civil or nuclear war, and I doubt a bug out location would be that useful. How long can you really last, and how long can you stay hidden? To your point, better than a bug out location that doesn't move is a bank account that lets you leave and simply skip country.

 

[GOPerfect]

The best way to prepare for long life is to train and be able to kill anyone, any age at any time.

Most of these fools will fail!

 

[livingston]

I really have a hard time coming up with realistic scenarios in which these bug out locations are valuable and viable. If it's so bad that even being rich, in the US means you can't stay in your own home, it's probably due to civil or nuclear war, and I doubt a bug out location would be that useful. How long can you really last, and how long can you stay hidden? To your point, better than a bug out location that doesn't move is a bank account that lets you leave and simply skip country.

I can see many folks having a bug out location ... One lives in the city because of work or school for the children . ... On the weekends they have a cottage on a lake or even a campsite on say 10-50 acres of land in a woods . IF one pays attention while traveling around the finger lakes and southern tier there are thousands of places tucked away in the woods sitting on some acreage and a nearby pond stocked with fish. A friend of mine surveys and he said you would be surprised to see the number of camps tucked way back off the main roads . These places are used almost every weekend in the summer . Deer season they are opened up again . .. Where is a better place to be when dealing with civil unrest. .. Standing in ones apartment 5 stories up looking at rioters burning your car like in the LA riots or being 2 hours away in a cabin surrounded by woods, a pond ,perhaps a natural spring nearby with plenty of firewood stacked out back . ... Watching the riots on TV.

 

[Deplorable Me]

The best way to prepare for long life is to train and be able to kill anyone, any age at any time.

Most of these fools will fail!

General Mattis said it best.

 

[Blimey]

I can see many folks having a bug out location ... One lives in the city because of work or school for the children . ... On the weekends they have a cottage on a lake or even a campsite on say 10-50 acres of land in a woods . IF one pays attention while traveling around the finger lakes and southern tier there are thousands of places tucked away in the woods sitting on some acreage and a nearby pond stocked with fish. A friend of mine surveys and he said you would be surprised to see the number of camps tucked way back off the main roads . These places are used almost every weekend in the summer . Deer season they are opened up again . .. Where is a better place to be when dealing with civil unrest. .. Standing in ones apartment 5 stories up looking at rioters burning your car like in the LA riots or being 2 hours away in a cabin surrounded by woods, a pond ,perhaps a natural spring nearby with plenty of firewood stacked out back . ... Watching the riots on TV.

Cities are only ever mere days away from going feral. If there was a power outage that took out all of the north east every city would be a complete shitehole within a week. Few supplies coming in, emergency services swamped. Can’t get around, etc.