To be fair, the US should have gotten on the EV wagon way earlier than we did; a decade earlier, at least. We got into manufacturing too late and the incentive programs offered too little and were short-lived.
For sure. And he probably laughed at the US for not exploiting this market when it should have.
I disagree.
Money and brains often don't go together. Face the facts; we;re all gonna die sooner or later. Wealth will never save us. We're all doomed, Bill Gates, Murdoch, Silvester Stallion, Putin, King Charles, Justin Trudeau, all those movies stars with the white teeth and you and me.The world’s billionaires aren’t waiting for death anymore. They're building luxury bunkers everywhere, even as it becomes painfully clear these bunkers won't save them. A tiny handful of entrepreneurs are cashing in on the paranoia. One company called Oppidum will build a bunker under your mansion now, complete with a hydraulic ramp so you can drive your sportscar down there. They describe themselves as "optimistic about the future," and yet their entire business model sells doom. Their bunker even airlocks.
Demand for luxury bunkers has spiked 1,000 percent thanks to events like the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
Ah, yes. It's a fabulous idea to bury yourself alive in an airtight sarcophagus instead of trying to prevent the need for it in the first place. In the end, it's an exercise in futility. Oppidum isn't building anything that could survive on an uninhabitable planet. They're offering comfort to soothe the elite panic of billionaire clients. It's a business.
That's all.
Meanwhile, flowers are blooming in Antarctica. Ice isn't forming. It's supposed to be winter in the southern hemisphere, but South America has been seeing temperatures above 100F for months. Scientists say humans have never observed this kind of winter before.
It's one in 7 million, a five sigma event.
It's blowing their minds.
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Survivalism and prepping have gone mainstream over the last few years, with roughly a third of Americans now spending up to $11 billion a year on survival tools and emergency kits, including food buckets. One group estimates the market for "emergency management" will double by 2025. Prepper sites are reaching new demographics, including young urban women.
The Kardashians even started plugging emergency kits specially designed for "the unprepared," and they charged up to $250.
Costco sells one for $6,000.
Honestly, it's a little eerie to see someone apply a goop-style brand to prepping and survivalism. They even sell "hurricane kits."
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The rich have been planning for a long time. Several years ago, The New Yorker did a story on their doomsday plans. They include stocking up on crypto and taking archery classes. They get together over wine and brag about their bunkers to each other. The story talks about one real estate investor who stumbled across "radical self-reliance" at Burning Man.
We saw how that turned out.
more at The Billionaires Are Going Bunkers
I often wonder who the world will adapt to the rapid changes we are experiencing now. The classes will behave much differently. We are poor ( not destitute ), and old, so I am not doing much prepping. We will just adjust enough to ride out the storm. It so complex I can't see the future at all. From most reliable sources it seems we are in the first part of a hell of a storm though. Hunker or Bunker?
"Yea!"
Someone will extend life. And extend it further and further with each success that is achieved more will be expected. Mr. G. has his fingers in multiple pies and loves to control people as any windows (renter) has learned over the years. He wants to block the sun's rays, and make us plebs eat bug meal/flour whether we like it or not while he dines in places like this on the best of everything at taxpayers expense. Yes that is Versailles.
The woke see the problem. The unwoke don't. If the unwoke see the problem, they cannot be the unwoke. They have to be the woke. Old salt has another interpretation of woke than I do in this situation. I don't care to get into it. It's pointless.Can you explain? I'm wondering if you're seeing it as I am?
I am glad someone else 'gets it'! We all are destined to die! All this BS about rich vs. poor, woke vs. unwoke, etc. etc.
I agree with this sentiment for sure. I felt like the article in the OP was not about worrying about how much money one has if/when when things go south. Let's apply that to these billionaires. They have the means to do pretty much as they please. These are folks who are investing a lot of dough in surviving some kind of calamity in the near future. These are people who basically run the governments with their contributions to powerful politicians and corporations.
I am starting to see your interpretation of unwoke. So, actually there's no disagreement that I can see! To me woke means too much emphasis on being personally slighted or offended, or fighting for the right to be called "they!"
Woke comes from awake (he woke up = he was awakened). The opposite of that is an unconscious state that has nothing to to with unselfishness or some grandiose image of self. The person is asleep and not aware of what is going on. Unless it is used to slur, but it's not a very good slur, because accusing some one of being awake implies that the person using the word as a slur values unawareness more than awareness.I am starting to see your interpretation of unwoke. So, actually there's no disagreement that I can see! To me woke means too much emphasis on being personally slighted or offended, or fighting for the right to be called "they!"
That's why your "unwoke" (a word I had never come across before) seemed like the opposite to me. In other words: unwoke = everybody who is unselfish enough to see the greater picture! And I too won't squabble over minor differences. I am saving my strength!
The misunderstanding came about because the original meaning of woke changed over the years. Originally it meant being aware of (awake to) racial inequities now, for many folks, it means all that I have quoted above! Honest misunderstandings happen when meanings change on us! Peace, brother!
Same way with MAGA. 'some' people think 'Making America Great Again' is a negative.
Just the opposite: it's too warm!
'Woke' is a political word, a pejorative and a slur when used by the opposite side. Personally, I try not to use the word.
