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The super rich arseholes building bunkers to escape a global catastrophe means they'll survive to fuck up the next iteration of humanity
submitted by dulcima to ShowerThoughts 1 monthMar 12, 2025 11:59:19 ago (+21/-1) (ShowerThoughts)

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

Just a depressing thought that struck me in the small hours of the night.

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[ - ] drstrangergov 11 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 12:01:17 ago (+11/-0)

we have heavy equipment. their bunkers will be their prisons.

[ + ] dulcima

[ - ] dulcima [op] 6 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 12:04:10 ago (+6/-0)

I'm hoping their bunkers will end up under tons of rock or at the bottom of the sea.

Imagine living through a similar timeline to this one...

[ + ] drstrangergov

[ - ] drstrangergov 4 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 12:08:36 ago (+4/-0)

i often find myself thinking if the last 25 years isn't theater it should be. hopefully better writers than us record it honestly so history can look at us and say "WTF".

[ + ] xmasskull

[ - ] xmasskull 4 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 13:40:34 ago (+4/-0)

....and graves.

[ + ] GreenSaint

[ - ] GreenSaint 3 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 15:22:26 ago (+3/-0)

I have a coworker who told me all about his underground bunker he built. I told him so if something goes wrong now I’m coming and I’m killing you and taking it. Shouldn’t have told me retard.

[ + ] namefagsrgay

[ - ] namefagsrgay 1 point 1 monthMar 12, 2025 19:03:51 ago (+1/-0)

Chances are he deserves to die either way.

[ + ] GreenSaint

[ - ] GreenSaint 0 points 1 monthMar 13, 2025 20:29:50 ago (+0/-0)

Nah he’s a prettt cool guy. A hilarious guy. He’s a painter as well. He’s givin me a bunch of prints of his paintings they’re nice. Iv bought some too. He just talks too much.

[ + ] GreenSaint

[ - ] GreenSaint 3 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 15:21:24 ago (+3/-0)

That would be funny they all go underground then they can’t get out again

[ + ] namefagsrgay

[ - ] namefagsrgay 1 point 1 monthMar 12, 2025 18:56:05 ago (+1/-0)

This is a pleasant thought. I prefer the word tomb.

[ - ] Panic 0 points 1 monthMar 13, 2025 14:11:03 ago (+0/-0)

their tombs

[ - ] Sector2 5 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 14:15:17 ago (+5/-0)

Life in a bunker won't be as easy or as enjoyable as they're imagining. The technical aspect of creating survivability isn't that hard, depending on your funds. The hard part will be the human factor.

[ + ] BloodyComet

[ - ] BloodyComet 3 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 15:31:59 ago (+3/-0)

The lack of sunlight might be one of the greatest problems they would face. You can simulate sunlight to a certain point, but it's not exactly the same.

Historically, people that live underground for long periods of time tend to go COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE, even if they have other people with them and things to remain somewhat entertained. Imagine living in a bunker for 20 years... the people that crawl out of it will be deranged madmen, possibly cannibals by that point.

[ + ] Sector2

[ - ] Sector2 2 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 15:51:17 ago (+2/-0)

Even nukes would let you out within a month or so, assuming you didn't locate in or downwind of a target zone. If they couldn't come out because of crazed hordes around the bunker, that would be a location failure.

I doubt many of the bunker people are able to create a culture among their hirelings that will make them the most obvious owner/operator of the bunker society. With luck, their navy seals will see some use for them and tolerate their continued presence. Depends on what and how severe the crisis is though.

[ + ] Merlynn

[ - ] Merlynn 2 points 1 monthMar 13, 2025 01:58:28 ago (+2/-0)

Remember the bunker people in The Time Machine?

[ - ] Fourteeneightyeight 4 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 13:32:49 ago (+4/-0)

All you have to do is find the ventilation and stuff it full of flammables

[ + ] BloodyComet

[ - ] BloodyComet 2 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 15:30:12 ago (+2/-0)

I would use their ventilation systems as latrines and disposal pits for organic material, if they're going to be stuck down there for a while. Let the place fill up with the smell of shit and decay. Let disease run rampant in their little den. That would be true justice.

[ + ] Anus_Expander

[ - ] Anus_Expander 2 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 16:42:50 ago (+2/-0)

Plastic tarp and Gorilla tape

[ - ] TheSimulacra 4 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 14:41:27 ago (+4/-0)

Individuals in their bunkers will not survive anything. The hundred +trillion that has been stolen to create a breakaway civilization underground however is quite a different thing.

[ - ] Master_B 3 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 13:47:06 ago (+3/-0)

I've been reading about big bad billionaires going to """space""" in penis shaped vessels, build underground autonomous bases, etc.

I have yet to see any of this. Show me a super rich that can start a fire with twigs or run a homestead.

A former classmate helped taking out an old kitchen of a (former) Shell ceo.
The guy was taking his own kitchen out with my friend.
The "elites" are very mundane folks. There's no magic or glamour. These articles really provide zero factual information and are only meant to rile you up.

[ + ] Master_B

[ - ] Master_B 3 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 13:50:54 ago (+3/-0)

Just a depressing thought that struck me in the small hours of the night.

The only thing that really affects you is politics, and that's mostly only because you let them. Ignore the scaremongering and make the best of where you are and what you have.
Godspeed!

[ + ] Sector2

[ - ] Sector2 2 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 14:23:28 ago (+2/-0)

Some effort to choose the best place to be would be advisable too.

[ - ] ItsOk2bArian 2 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 17:01:50 ago (+2/-0)

The ridiculous part is these billionaires thinking they can just hide in underground warehouses full of vital supplies and equipment. Hundreds of construction workers that built the bunker know where they are. They have told thousands of friends and family about them, those people have told tens of thousands.
It's not exactly a well kept secret. All the locals know where they are and what they've got. My cabin in the woods is more secretive and less likely to be raided by a desperate mob

[ - ] Conspirologist 1 point 1 monthMar 12, 2025 12:12:52 ago (+2/-1)

Yes, of course. This shit will have no end, unless we can exterminate them.

[ - ] BloodyComet 1 point 1 monthMar 12, 2025 15:28:36 ago (+1/-0)

I don't know about this. Three will be survivors from outside of those bunkers. How do you think those survivors will feel about these creeps crawling out of their bunkers after the danger is gone?

While stuffed into their bunkers during w/e crisis is unfolding, this might be the first time in thousands of years where mankind is no longer guided by kike influence. Imagine what could become of a society like that. It could be GLORIOUS...

[ - ] Anus_Expander 1 point 1 monthMar 12, 2025 16:41:58 ago (+1/-0)

Throw a tarp over dey air vents

[ + ] ItsOk2bArian

[ - ] ItsOk2bArian 1 point 1 monthMar 12, 2025 16:55:14 ago (+1/-0)

If I'm a survivor and I find an air vent, I'm pissing in it every chance I get. Their airhole just became my latrine

[ + ] Anus_Expander

[ - ] Anus_Expander 2 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 16:56:52 ago (+2/-0)

OK, but put the tarp back on after you zip up

[ + ] ItsOk2bArian

[ - ] ItsOk2bArian 1 point 1 monthMar 12, 2025 17:04:07 ago (+1/-0)

Good point, solid plan. I don't want to catch any blow back when the shit literally hits the fan

[ - ] bobdole9 1 point 1 monthMar 12, 2025 16:13:26 ago (+1/-0)

You think they have any practical skills?

[ + ] Anus_Expander

[ - ] Anus_Expander 2 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 16:45:46 ago (+2/-0)

They will have a guy like me with them, that can build and fix stuff. Ideally the husband of the maid, cuz Madame aint gonna start cleanin her own terlet just because of a nuclear war. PS: nukes r fake n gay.

[ + ] bobdole9

[ - ] bobdole9 1 point 1 monthMar 12, 2025 18:49:27 ago (+1/-0)

What prevents you from using accelerated projectiles and taking over their hut?

These bunker diggers are just sitting ducks.

[ - ] ilikeskittles 1 point 1 monthMar 13, 2025 11:22:34 ago (+1/-0)

They will live through whatever happens so they can starve when the come out.

[ - ] Cantaloupe 0 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 15:26:20 ago (+0/-0)

Those bunkers were for their bioweapons and WW3 efforts.

[ - ] HonkyMcNiggerSpic 0 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 17:09:07 ago (+0/-0)

a lot of those bunkers will be flooded with water/gas/etc

[ - ] pickingrinninspittin 0 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 17:14:12 ago (+0/-0)

Step 1: OP wins the lottery and becomes fantastically wealthy

Step 2: OP builds a bunker with his fuck you money

Step 3: The global catastrophe comes... and goes

Step 4: OP reemerges and proceeds to fuck up the next iteration of humanity

[ - ] Panic 0 points 1 monthMar 13, 2025 14:34:11 ago (+0/-0)

The rich haven't really thought this thing through. Along with their families, the world's 2800 billionaires might total 5000 people. Were the planet truly decimated and they all came out after even two years, their problems are only beginning. First, they are spread out across the globe, so they are totally isolated. Inbreeding becomes the rule. Secondly, these uber-wealthy few have no skill sets, and building homes, digging ditches, planting crops and paving roads is beyond their abilities; they'll be living in shacks. Thirdly, they will run out of food and water once their stored supplies run out. Being very isolated from other bunker survivors, they will lack the goods and services necessary to long term survival.

In a great disaster we might go quick. The bunker billionaire families will go slowly, painfully and will die no better than beasts.

[ - ] Conspirologist -1 points 1 monthMar 24, 2025 07:26:33 ago (+0/-1)

This is weird. The elite have bunkers since the atomic bomb was invented. There are also a lot of middle class boomers who own bunkers. I don't know why the media suddenly started reporting about these bunkers now. It was never a secret.

Anyway, you are right. In case of atomic war only the elite and some boomers will survive. The young generation is clueless about bunkers.

[ - ] registereduser -2 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 12:27:28 ago (+2/-4)

So you spent your life crying like a little bitch on the internet instead of getting off your ass and building your own bunker.

And now your response is to cry like a little bitch on the internet moar.

LOL

Wallow harder, faggot.

[ + ] dulcima

[ - ] dulcima [op] 6 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 12:32:29 ago (+6/-0)

Five foot two women generally don't build underground bunkers, you homosexual.

[ + ] Sector2

[ - ] Sector2 3 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 14:08:20 ago (+3/-0)

You'll have an advantage in the tunnels though.

[ + ] registereduser

[ - ] registereduser -4 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 12:39:19 ago (+0/-4)

Five foot wide cows don't generally do much of anything, except cry like a little bitch on the internet.

[ + ] NoRefunds

[ - ] NoRefunds 4 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 13:29:16 ago (+4/-0)

instead of getting off your ass and building your own bunker.

when you don't understand how the real world works, especially construction

[ + ] registereduser

[ - ] registereduser -3 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 13:58:01 ago (+0/-3)

muh whaaaaahhh, muh it literally can not be done, muh whaaaaahhhh

Kill your self, faggot.

[ + ] NoRefunds

[ - ] NoRefunds 1 point 1 monthMar 12, 2025 14:02:39 ago (+1/-0)

BUILD A BUNKER OUT OF 100% DIRT ON SOMEONE ELSE'S PROPERTY FOR FREE, ARE YOU DUMB

[ + ] registereduser

[ - ] registereduser -2 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 14:06:58 ago (+1/-3)

You're right ...

muh whaaaaahhhh it's too hard muh whaaaaaahhh

Better you die as target practice, you won't be missed.