• MoonMelon@lemmy.ml
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    21 days ago

    Zuck building a bunker for his ex-military head of security who will murder him instantly.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    People refusing to work for them would put a quick end to them.

    They need us way more than we need them. They’re the parasites, we’re the hosts.

    If you know someone who works directly under a billionaire’s umbrella, shame them. Make it uncool to work at Meta, or SpaceX, selling Teslas, or Amazon at any level. Make it uncool to work on their yachts, or in their homes, or as their driver, etc.

    We DO have the power, we need to exercise it together.

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      21 days ago

      I 90% agree with, but given the state of the economy, lots of people gotta pay the bills and finding another job is difficult if not impossible right now. And that’s exactly by design. Not to mention working inside one of these companies comes with the potential for sabotage. Maybe lets not shame people who don’t get the luxury of choice right now.

      And of course, encourage union participation as well as any form of sabotage that one can perform that won’t end in the death or harm of innocents.

    • Ajen@sh.itjust.works
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      21 days ago

      Those companies haven’t been “cool” to work at for a while now, but they’re prestigious because they pay so much and people care about money and status.

  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Because there is an impending global catastrophe they have determined is unavoidable and unpreventable that they have kept under wraps due to the inevitable collapse of society once people learn of it. This is why there are no long term plans for anything anymore. Because there won’t be a long term.

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      21 days ago

      Because there is an impending global catastrophe they have determined is unavoidable and unpreventable caused through their greed and selfishness

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      21 days ago

      And, while they have the resources to do something to prevent it, they chose instead to make the situation worse.

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      21 days ago

      They are not living in reality anymore. There is something within these Techbros that denies consensus reality and substitutes some kind of simulation of their own.

      That’s the reason this guy can build a bunker on an island close to the water on a volcano.

      There is also some interesting symbolism in there.

      They feel the need to hide from the people, because they know they would face the fate of Johan de Witt if the people ever found out what they did to them.

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        There’s something that happens to your brain when you get lots of money it seems.

        Sam Bankman-Fried the disgraced crypto entrepreneur was an effective altruist with a few of his coworkers and their goal was helping people. I was reading up on them and it was initially about feeding people and earning money to give to others. When they started getting more and more money they were like: “what if there’s a zombie outbreak?” Obviously, we’re really smart and society needs people like us to survive so we should be spending money on private islands and having our own country to make sure we can keep humanity going or some shit. It was weird.

        Despite what anything thinks about Bill Burr now … I think he had a really good point about these “end of the world” catastrophes – I simply don’t want to be alive for any of them. I don’t wanna be scrounging around the remnants of humanity with a dying ecosystem and dwindling human race.

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          I agree with Burr’s sentiment. I’ve seriously started thinking about selling my stuff and maybe go a few places to see ppl I care about once more and just exiting when I’m totally broke. Fuck it.

    • BenLeMan@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      It’s the perfect place for petting their white cat and berating their henchmen while waiting for James Bond to storm the place.

  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    This delights me… to be a fly on the wall of that bunker!

    Should he ever use it, he’ll find out that locking himself in with his staff was a massive error in judgment. They will tear him apart.

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      Should he ever use it, he’ll find out that locking himself in with his staff was a massive error in judgment. They will tear him apart.

      I’m sure these billionaires have found a solution that makes perfect sense to them.

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        The collars will be vibe coded by the lowest bidder’s roommate’s nephew and will immediately explode once the doors are closed leaving them effectively stranded inside, helpless to watch on the security cameras as the concrete trucks roll up to seal off the doors…

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    The only satisfaction I’m getting out of any of this bullshit is the knowledge that these fuckers will at best live a few weeks longer than me after it all goes to shit. In that time they’ll have plenty of opportunity to reflect on where they went wrong.

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      Concrete on the air vents.

      I’m too smart to know some of these Feudalists are dumb enough to cut corners in their own safety plan.

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    I honestly wouldn’t read too much into these bunkers. Wealth inequality is the bigger issue. Zuck has a net worth of about $220 billion. $100 million to Zuck is like a middle class family with a net worth of $300k spending $136. An underground bunker for Zuck is like dinner and a few drinks for most people.

    So why do they have bunkers? Because they can. If you could build a doomsday bunker under your house for a hundred bucks, wouldn’t you? People invest far more than that in storm shelters. Read something sinister into it if you want. But this seems like a “because we can” expense more than anything.

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      This is a reasonable analysis. I guess because we are in a (silent) Cold War 2.0 and the world population became disillusioned with globalisation, billionaires building their own bunker is their insurance policy should the world is thrown into another chaos. After all, many countries who could afford did build bunkers for their citizens during the first Cold War, in case we decide launch nukes and extinct ourselves. Billionaires building their own bunkers is not different.

      But on the one hand, there could be something intentionally sinister. Several billionaires, especially Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, are accelerationists. They see the world is going to end and so might as well speed it up and get on with. Although, they want to rule the ashes after. That’s their idea.

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    Im pretty sure we could starve him out or just seal him in indefinitely to become his body guards concubine