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Do you think that rich people are on some sort of private 'end of the world' mailing list?

No, but they have spent tens of millions of dollars on a go bag —> helicopter to private jet -> bunker in New Zealand preplanned route and you haven’t.

Good luck to them. Having Luxon or Peter crawl up their arse on arrival will have them wishing for a fiery death.

Good luck to the billionaires in a real collapse scenario, when their security and support staff can decide that the billionaires are counterproductive, and vote them out of the survival bunkers.

You clearly haven't read articles where they said they were pondering all their employees in those bunkers to have explosives in their neck...

You didn't include the locals, we're not huge fans of being considered a liferaft by people who have actively worked to make the world worse. And we have a can do spirit (and earthmoving equipment...)

I suggest calling one of these bunkers Khazad Dum.

It would certainly align with Thiel's naming predilections...

A few moments' thought will convince just about anyone that their best chances of survival will come from allying themselves with a strong, resource-rich leader, namely the one they already work for.

Immediately turning on such a leader would be a bad move, because you'd then have to fight all the other traitors for your share of the loot.

If I was a guard. Would I pick up my boss I see every week or some random dude I might have seen year or more ago once? Probably would go with the boss that I am hopefully reasonably friendly with. There really is quite a chain of command even in security.

A few months of some narrow strait of water in the other side of the world being closed off and New Zealand is about to collapse. And these billionaires think they can just sit back and relax in their bunkers here in an apocalypse scenario?

I don't care. And I guarantee you most wealthy people don't care either. A few eccentric wealthy people do and you think r/preppers is filled with the elite - it's not.

Reminds me this this post from Reddit the other day from someone who believes AI is a conspiracy perpetuated by the rich people: https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1syeppa/am_i_ov...

Well, there's a fucking giant very busy revolving door between the federal government and the private sector. Those people have connections, but they are also able interpret open source intelligence signals and their implications in a way that most of us can't, because we don't know the internal machinery.

In fact, most big banks and other big companies have retired defense and intelligence people explicitly working on risk assessment.

I guess when you grow up, you figure out the internal machinery isn't as interesting as your imagination thinks it is. And also that somehow the people involved are part of some secret network that has the ability to keep the truth from you. That's some good old fashioned 90s x-files mentality.

It’s not a secret, or something you need to grow up to understand, ya condescending prick.

It’s (often unspoken) quid pro quo.

Like getting years of millions of dollars in speaking deals from corps after a favorable administration.

I noticed you had no retort for my other (name dropping) reply…

I think news of such an impeding scenario would probably percolate through their circles first, before the wider media.

How private the Bilderberg Meeting and group are is up to your interpretation.

Bloomberg Terminal chat?

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