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The day the shit really hits the fan, the guys who build these bunkers are going to steal them from the billionaires who bought them. Joey might have his own but he'll tell his cousins that they can go beat the shit out of Jeff Bezos and take over his whole bunker.

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Pitch this to Amazon Studios and I'll watch it on Prime Vide... uh, never mind.

I'm realizing now they probably had this same idea and are hiring "Independent Consultants" to pen test their bunkers.

If they haven't...

How the job starts: Contractor agrees to half payment now, half on completion of bunker

How the job ends: Contractor shows up to collect final payment, ends up in a shallow grave on the far side of the retaining wall behind the cistern

You don't get to be a billionaire by leaving loose ends lying around...

Who's likelier to have been in the military and actually seized a position from an adversary? Joey's cousins or Jeff Bezos'? All the pen testing in the world isn't going to help Bill and Melinda and their security team hold their bunker against a larger group of Navy Seals looking for a safe place to ride out the whatever. Or, for that matter, Bill and Melinda's security people looking at the 1 year food supply, looking at Bill and Melinda, and making it a 2 year food supply.

The fact is, in a shit hits the fan scenario, money has no value, and thus the world's billionaires become just random dweebs.

I agree with you, I just think it'll be a scene of paying one half of the population to kill the other.

There will be plenty of softer targets meal team six will be going after first, with plenty of fighting to keep them distracted.

I'm picturing Bill running the old embrace, extend, and extinguish model until they all just kill each other or die of hunger/radiation/lead poisoning.

Billionaires who didn't get that way by inheriting huge sums and suboptimally managing them tend to have gotten where they are through a variety of skills, usually including extremely good skills at selling people in much more advantaged positions the idea to give up what would naively seem to be the near-term optimal course to take a risk on something that might pay off themselves down the road but which was clearly in the not-yet-billionaire’s interest. And they’ve often kept quite current with those negotiating skills.

Agree, but in the true disaster scenario where you're in bunkers, there's nothing but the near-term. There is no down the road, you do what you need to do so that you're alive tomorrow morning.

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