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The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
Guardian ^ | 9/4/22 | Douglas Rushkoff

Posted on 09/09/2022 4:55:22 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences.

s a humanist who writes about the impact of digital technology on our lives, I am often mistaken for a futurist. The people most interested in hiring me for my opinions about technology are usually less concerned with building tools that help people live better lives in the present than they are in identifying the Next Big Thing through which to dominate them in the future. I don’t usually respond to their inquiries. Why help these guys ruin what’s left of the internet, much less civilisation? Still, sometimes a combination of morbid curiosity and cold hard cash is enough to get me on a stage in front of the tech elite, where I try to talk some sense into them about how their businesses are affecting our lives out here in the real world. That’s how I found myself accepting an invitation to address a group mysteriously described as “ultra-wealthy stakeholders”, out in the middle of the desert.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: apocalypse; bunkers; chat; elitists; gates; hh2; obama; prepping; shtf
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1 posted on 09/09/2022 4:55:22 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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Fill their air vent with rotten meat, then shoot them and take over when they exit


2 posted on 09/09/2022 4:57:38 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

You won’t be able to hide, nerds.


3 posted on 09/09/2022 4:57:51 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

They really think their security guards will save them.


4 posted on 09/09/2022 5:01:22 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: Levy78

Wonder if they are bringing women to use as sex slaves as discussed in the last half hour of Dr.Strangelove. To repopulate the earth they will have to be attractive to the elite men.

Happy ending of the movie was everyone got killed in the doomsday weapon nuclear war so that means they died, too.


5 posted on 09/09/2022 5:02:14 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

And they cried out to the mountains to fall on them and hide them from the wrath of the Lamb...


6 posted on 09/09/2022 5:02:58 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Probably be easier to give their lives to Jesus. No one will survive what’s coming...or very few.


7 posted on 09/09/2022 5:05:15 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Rurudyne

That exact verse came to mind.

Funny, if they had submitted to Christ, they would already be shielded from the wrath of God.


8 posted on 09/09/2022 5:05:18 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: 2banana

The guards will be living large within a month.


9 posted on 09/09/2022 5:05:52 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim ( )
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To: Rurudyne
Psalm 14:1 for good measure:

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good

10 posted on 09/09/2022 5:08:04 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

(and the rich men too)

Revelation 6:15-17
King James Version

15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%206:15-17&version=KJV


11 posted on 09/09/2022 5:10:09 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Rurudyne; metmom

Yes


12 posted on 09/09/2022 5:11:39 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I like the guy who just wants to build simple sustainable farms. Nothing wrong with that idea at all. Probably the only sensible thing to do in troubled times.


13 posted on 09/09/2022 5:15:12 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: dsrtsage

Right, because people who can afford a shelter like this would never think of that.


14 posted on 09/09/2022 5:18:04 PM PDT by bigbob (z)
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To: SaveFerris

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mefxlLpuq_E


15 posted on 09/09/2022 5:19:35 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: 2banana

It will be the security Guards that will end up with their food, drink and women, just look at history.


16 posted on 09/09/2022 5:20:08 PM PDT by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Interesting article


17 posted on 09/09/2022 5:21:25 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: dsrtsage

A couple gallons of ammonia.


18 posted on 09/09/2022 5:21:49 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I’ve read that some have built and stocked arks so they and theirs can sail off into the sunset when tshtf.


19 posted on 09/09/2022 5:22:14 PM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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With the elves???


20 posted on 09/09/2022 5:23:35 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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