Posted on 01/21/2024 6:20:56 PM PST by Libloather
'Doomsday prepping' used to be seen as a hobby relegated to the paranoid fringe — but ordinary Americans spent a staggering $11 billion on survival items, just last year, from April 2022 to April 2023.
About a third of US citizens admit to prepping, surveys show, but few have the resources today's billionaire bunker-builders have to devote to their own shelters.
The world's wealthiest have increasingly spent hundreds of millions on securing underground compounds, private islands and (for the merely rich) 'survival condos.'
Late last year it emerged Mark Zuckerberg was building a $100 million hidden fortress buried beneath his Hawaiian island ranch, complete with its own energy and food supplies and blast-resistant doors.
Billionaire wellness entrepreneur Frank VanderSloot — Idaho's richest man — recently bought a 2,000-acre ranch south of Zuck's compound for a cool $51 million.
And OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman once let slip that he and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel have an 'arrangement' in case the world is ending: If things hit the fan, Altman said in 2016, the pair would lay low at one of Thiel's properties in New Zealand.
But where, exactly, are they going to stay? In 2022, a local community council on New Zealand's South Island blocked Thiel's plans to carve his majestic fortified lair into the landscape beside historically protected Lake Wanaka.
Independent commissioners who visited the proposed site on behalf of the council reported back that Thiel's bunker design would 'substantially detract from the quality and naturalness of the outstanding natural landscape.'
'All members were shocked at the frequency at which substantial parts of the proposal would be in plain and direct view,' they wrote of Thiel's proposal, which would have been nestled close to New Zealand's no less historic Mount Alpha.
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[They fear death. This is all they got.]
I do believe you are correct.
All you have to do is to check the news, of course you are not going to find it in your local papers what takes place in other parts of the world.
Heh - you’re not wrong
[Everyone is waiting the global debt shoe to drop.]
Yes, it will have to blow up at some point.
They are isolating themselves from the results of their utopia.
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Everyone should have a plan of some sort. No surprise that the richer among us can actually build a bunker or fortress. The more immediate thing for everyone is some basic prep, a filled pantry, some food, ammunition and arms. Water will trip me up, but I live in a desert, so no surprise there.
Good post—a variation of the old John Adams quote would be that a bunker is only appropriate for a moral and religious community.
Otherwise they will quickly revert to hatred and become savages.
Once the greedy slime slink like rats underground we should fill over their luxury rat dens and leave them there for volcanic activity to deaL with.
Small island in the middle of the Pacific. Might not be the best plan.
A false premise and pure click-bait.
You don’t buy insurance because you expect you’ll have a kidney fail or get into an auto crash, you buy insurance because you you’d rather take the loss on buying the insurance than stand the potential loss from a medical or automotive (or home owner’s) catastrophe.
They’re not building bunkers because they’re expecting TEOTWAWKI, they’re building bunkers because they’ve got the discretionary cash, and they reckon a bunker might come in handy. Even if the SHTF never comes, they still make for a dandy wine cellar.
“insurance”
It is like buying insurance and then condemning average folks who also buy insurance as right wing conspiracy theorists.
They know a lot, but may not be up to date on drones.
Reminds me of 1960 when the fad for the rich was to build fallout shelters in their homes and backyards.
Twilight Zone “THE SHELTER” comes to mind.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734676/
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