The core of the prepper fantasy: "What if the world ended in the *precise* way that made *me* the most important person?" The ultra-rich fantasize about emerging from luxury bunkers with an army of mercs and bitcoin thumbdrives to a world in ruins that they rule using their "leadership skills."
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@pluralistic Why don’t the ultra rich realize that after a mega catastrophe end of world event, no one will value any form of currency.
The only negotiable tender will be food, water, shelter […]
@pluralistic maybe if everyone stopped beating each other up over a larger pile of magic beans there wouldn't be a growing number of giants playing god with their ant farms.
@pluralistic reminds me of Heinleins competent man (does everything, settles the planet, cures the virus, wins the war while raising 5 children as a single dad) device. And I think it does have […]
@pluralistic Survivalism is a collection of absurd delusions.
We survive together, or not at all.
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@pluralistic One of the things I believe really need to be unpacked is the psychological follow-on of people who start investing significant amounts into an end of world scenario. Suddenly the […]
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@pluralistic hypothesis: gringo preppers will survive less than 5min because they didn’t grow up in the third world.
@pluralistic In my case, fear that in the wake of this election result, some combination of MAGA undermining of the government and corporate acceleration of the inequality machine will result […]
@pluralistic bookmarking this, so I can share it with the next person who (incorrectly) labels me a prepper (yes, I have a generator and fuel/food/water reserves; it's also not unusual to be […]
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Good luck with all that bitcoin when there is no infrastructure.
Do you think Bezos has a thumb drive chock-a-block full of ephemeral bitcoin or a New Zealand bunker stuffed with […]
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