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[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

I honestly wouldn't read too much into these bunkers. Wealth inequality is the bigger issue. Zuck has a net worth of about $220 billion. $100 million to Zuck is like a middle class family with a net worth of $300k spending $136. An underground bunker for Zuck is like dinner and a few drinks for most people.

So why do they have bunkers? Because they can. If you could build a doomsday bunker under your house for a hundred bucks, wouldn't you? People invest far more than that in storm shelters. Read something sinister into it if you want. But this seems like a "because we can" expense more than anything.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

This is a reasonable analysis. I guess because we are in a (silent) Cold War 2.0 and the world population became disillusioned with globalisation, billionaires building their own bunker is their insurance policy should the world is thrown into another chaos. After all, many countries who could afford did build bunkers for their citizens during the first Cold War, in case we decide launch nukes and extinct ourselves. Billionaires building their own bunkers is not different.

But on the one hand, there could be something intentionally sinister. Several billionaires, especially Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, are accelerationists. They see the world is going to end and so might as well speed it up and get on with. Although, they want to rule the ashes after. That's their idea.

[-] Baphometti@szmer.info 2 points 5 hours ago

It's his version of a mancave.

[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 4 points 23 hours ago

Because they think a bunker will help them. Eventually people will get so pissed off that even the oligarchs own guards are a risk to them.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

That's why the oligarchs are intent on accelerating the development of AI. They want robot guards that they could have more control over.

[-] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It's a bunker only if they are the ones who can open the door.

[-] stenAanden@feddit.dk 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why is a horde of geese raising the usaian flag? Because usaians aren't doing s***

In fact, they elected a rapist to president and their reaction to a major pedophile conspiracy being uncovered in their government is to seethe on the interwebs

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[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago

People refusing to work for them would put a quick end to them.

They need us way more than we need them. They're the parasites, we're the hosts.

If you know someone who works directly under a billionaire's umbrella, shame them. Make it uncool to work at Meta, or SpaceX, selling Teslas, or Amazon at any level. Make it uncool to work on their yachts, or in their homes, or as their driver, etc.

We DO have the power, we need to exercise it together.

[-] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

Making it uncoool is cool, but more importantly, unionize.

[-] Murse@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Make it uncool to work on their yachts, or in their homes, or as their driver, etc.

Hang on a sec, some of these jobs come with the opportunity to, uh, do something very cool.

 

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[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 78 points 1 day ago

Zuck building a bunker for his ex-military head of security who will murder him instantly.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

Murder him? Nahh put the explosive collar on his neck with help of the IT guy and make him a bitch boy.

[-] HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub 4 points 1 day ago

It would be so fucking funny if nuclear war, instead of some intercontinental nightmare, was just an american civil war.

Well, technically it would still be bad news, but just think about irony...

[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 day ago

He is building a bunker mistakenly thinking it will not be his tomb.

Cosplaying a "survivor"

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

They aren’t “all of a sudden”. They’ve been bunkering up for decades.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

It's also not necessarily indicative of anything. $100M is nothing for Zuckerberg, about 0.05% of his estimated net worth.

For context, excluding billionaires, your average 42 year old American (Zuckerberg's age) is worth about $135k*. 0.05% of $135k is about $68.

Given the choice, would you spend $68 to completely cover you just in case the world falls apart? Most people would. I certainly would.

*That still includes some pretty wealthy people that skew it higher, so don't feel bad if you're not even close in net worth. I'm sure not!

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[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Because there is an impending global catastrophe they have determined is unavoidable and unpreventable that they have kept under wraps due to the inevitable collapse of society once people learn of it. This is why there are no long term plans for anything anymore. Because there won't be a long term.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago

Because there is an impending global catastrophe they have ~~determined is unavoidable and unpreventable~~ caused through their greed and selfishness

[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

There never were long term plans. Market economics is an evolutionary system. Business are the organisms with that system (so are nations, and any other organization made of people, really). So long as a business metabolizes human labor into profit, it continues. What looks like planning was really just ~two centuries of exponential growth. There is no driver's seat, not really. The capitalist that forsakes profit doesn't stay a capitalist long. The system itself imposes a greater selective pressure than any individual human will. It will outlast last its components... until it doesn't. Nothing can maintain both exponential growth and equilibrium within it's environment.

It's much easier to clog up air intakes than storm an above ground building

[-] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

Mix bleach and ammonia and pipe the fumes in...

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[-] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 37 points 1 day ago

What is their plan when we just pour two meters of concrete on the bunker entrances?

[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Come on. If you had all the money in the world you'd probably build one too, tbh. I know i would. I would build a freaking underground network like extra homes. It would be awesome

but yeah, zuck probably is doing it for evil reasons.

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[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Knowing how freaky these tech bros are they probably have people captive in them

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

With suicide collars on their butler's.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

It's got plenty of uses! Like... Hunting!

[-] PillowD@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

The joke's on them, we'll just weld the doors shut from the outside.

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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

hes building his replacement android bodies, incase the current one gets destroyed he can just upload to a new android body.

[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

This delights me... to be a fly on the wall of that bunker!

Should he ever use it, he'll find out that locking himself in with his staff was a massive error in judgment. They will tear him apart.

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[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Zuck:

My actions might lead to the most anti social behavior ever conceived including: genocide; cataclysm; and living in a hole in the ground

My mom:

"Likes anti-trans propaganda on Facebook"

[-] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago

They know climate change is an extremely major problem

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

And, while they have the resources to do something to prevent it, they chose instead to make the situation worse.

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[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Build an underground bunker on an active volcano. I see no possible problem with this plan.

[-] Brummbaer@pawb.social 15 points 1 day ago

They are not living in reality anymore. There is something within these Techbros that denies consensus reality and substitutes some kind of simulation of their own.

That's the reason this guy can build a bunker on an island close to the water on a volcano.

There is also some interesting symbolism in there.

They feel the need to hide from the people, because they know they would face the fate of Johan de Witt if the people ever found out what they did to them.

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