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  • plants 🌻
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    I highly recommend reading this whole article. It is chilling.

    How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse

    After I arrived, I was ushered into what I thought was the green room. But instead of being wired with a microphone or taken to a stage, I just sat there at a plain round table as my audience was brought to me: five super-wealthy guys – yes, all men – from the upper echelon of the hedge fund world. After a bit of small talk, I realized they had no interest in the information I had prepared about the future of technology. They had come with questions of their own.

    They started out innocuously enough. Ethereum or bitcoin? Is quantum computing a real thing? Slowly but surely, however, they edged into their real topics of concern.

    Which region will be less affected by the coming climate crisis: New Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition, or will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the Event?”

    The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr Robot hack that takes everything down.

    This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed in time.


    These billionaires you worship are highly informed and preparing for the end of the world within their lifetime. They are not benevolent. They are not our saviors.

    I don't know how else to inform everyone in this forum of the fact that we are all doomed but it is a f***ing guarantee. An absolute guarantee certified and sent priority mail from our past. From our inability as a species to limit growth and responsibly live on this planet. Sure a few tribes may scavenge the ruins of society but there will never be a utopia. We will never leave this planet. We are like a virus creating our own immune response. The earth is going to heat up more and more and eventually we will just perish in the sun.

    There is no hope. Hold your family, tell your friends you love them, take your dog for a walk, enjoy coffee and d**** and do the best you can to eek out a happy existence while you can.

    These are the good old days...and that should sound morbid because it is.

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    Media tryna turn it into race war to divide/distract us because they know that if we all collectively woke up to the fact that the billionaires and politicians are the real problem, we would hang them all on live national television

  • Jun 4, 2020

    This is f***ing nuts

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    Man F*** rich colonizer white ppl idc
    Mfs ruin reality with their small d*** energy

  • Jun 4, 2020
    OUT OF ORDER

    Media tryna turn it into race war to divide/distract us because they know that if we all collectively woke up to the fact that the billionaires and politicians are the real problem, we would hang them all on live national television

  • OUT OF ORDER

    Media tryna turn it into race war to divide/distract us because they know that if we all collectively woke up to the fact that the billionaires and politicians are the real problem, we would hang them all on live national television

    FACT. This isnt a race war its one of the people vs. systems of oppresion and our government.

    When we break it down is when we get into race, etc but that isn't what this fight is truly about. WAKE TF UP

  • They call it the "American Dream" cuz you have to be asleep eyes closed to experience it...

  • what's crazy is not that people are prepping for this but rather that they are wealthy enough to even consider prepping in these methods

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    Quite a depressing read

  • plants 🌻
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    Jun 4, 2020
    bebacksoon

    Quite a depressing read

    Reality often be like that...

  • Jun 4, 2020

    SpaceX launching while urban centers burn is a good example of the divide between SV and the rest of the america

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    STUNNA

    Man F*** rich colonizer white ppl idc
    Mfs ruin reality with their small d*** energy

    Open your eyes, it’s so much deeper than these buzzwords like colonizer

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    good boy

    Open your eyes, it’s so much deeper than these buzzwords like colonizer

    Did I say it wasn’t

    Nigga saw the word colonizer and was disgusted

  • Jun 4, 2020
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    i’d be so pissed if this happened anytime soon

  • Jun 4, 2020

    Poignant. Chilling

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    This why I'm not having kids

  • Jun 4, 2020
    Shammy

    This why I'm not having kids

  • It’s been like that for a minute Heidi Slimane

  • Jun 5, 2020

    They always have contingency plans

  • OUT OF ORDER

    Media tryna turn it into race war to divide/distract us because they know that if we all collectively woke up to the fact that the billionaires and politicians are the real problem, we would hang them all on live national television

    NOOOOOOOO! CNN/FOX NEWS TOLD ME WHITE PEOPLE/MINORITIES ARE TO BLAME. YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT ANDERSON COOPER/TUCKER CARLSON WOULD TRY TO MISDIRECT MY ANGER ON BEHALF OF THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ELITE?

  • Jun 5, 2020
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    If the Elite were worried about their safety, maybe they should've taken responsibility for their actions.

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    Belka

    If the Elite were worried about their safety, maybe they should've taken responsibility for their actions.

    You’d think these tech wizards would’ve thought of this

  • Jun 5, 2020
    STUNNA

    You’d think these tech wizards would’ve thought of this

    They knew, they just didn't think s*** would hit the fan overnight.

  • plants 🌻
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    Jun 5, 2020
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    www quakerboy us

    i’d be so pissed if this happened anytime soon

    They're preparing for this to happen in their lifetime and they are older than you and I.

    I don't like being the bearer of bad news but it's likely that society will really collapse sometime in the next 50 years.