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Comment by neilv | Hacker News Reader

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.

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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 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?

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.

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

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