Oh yeah, dude, I forgot we could just use one million dollars to stop North Korea from detonating a nuclear device. Absolute genius. Don't know why we didn't think of this one. Good one, mate.

Your garden variety millionaire doesn't have enough influence to manipulate a well-organized homeowner's association. Averting nuclear holocaust is well outside their capabilities. The only way they could amass enough influence would be by grouping up with like-minded people and fighting for a common cause, but that's just called politics, and there are indeed many, many millionaires in politics. I have not seen many people suggest that this is a good thing.

> There's something upsetting about that combination of traits, don't you think? "Millionaire hackers" should be using their influence and money to try to avert a doomsday scenario if they believe it's likely. Not just prepare to hole up and wait it out.

"Nobody" is willing to appoint such "millionaire" hackers as "benevolent dicators" in multiple countries, which would be near to a necessity to enable them to avert this scenario. So the best they can do is dig holes.

Being a millionaire doesn’t carry as much influence as one thinks these day. My net worth is over a million and I have no real influence on the world except in making things comfortable for myself.

I'll do what I damn well please with my money (not a millionaire).