Not happy with safe rooms, the super-rich are building luxury fortresses

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Operating theatres, bowling alleys and home cinemas: Not happy with safe rooms, the super-rich are building luxury fortresses

Increasingly, the ultra wealthy are interested in features such as escape tunnels and medical rooms. SAFE say they have created some facilities to rival operating theatres at the best hospitals, with decontamination chambers and fully stocked pharmacies.
Operating theatres, bowling alleys and home cinemas: Not happy with safe rooms, the super-rich are building luxury fortresses
 

Fame , and fame from being wealthy does not come alone. There's the movie starlet, who had a few bit parts and gets blown away when answering a knock at the door. My only near claim to fame was a cousin, who won $50,000 in a lottery. She had people banging on her door @ 4:30 AM wanting a handout-NOW. If you have obvious wealth, you're a target. It's like "Why do you rob banks?" Ans: "That's where the money is".
 
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They're presuming if the s*** ever hits the fan, they'll happen to be in those fortresses or nearby enough to get there, seal them up and guard them.

The folks who actually construct these places may collude to add secret remote entrances for themselves. Unlike the days of the pyramids, the workers aren't slaughtered after construction is completed...
 
George1959 said:
This is ridiculous. They'll die nevertheless.
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That's what it says to me, too. All their faith is in their money and they think it will give them some sort of immortality. It's sad and pathetic.

What do they think is going to happen that ordinary security measures can't handle? Will they have all this built and then be kidnapped or killed when they're out to dinner or will they fear that happening so much that they stay home all the time?

Look at Princess Diana, married into one of the richest families in the world, always surrounded by security guards.-- but she died in a car wreck because she hadn't used a simple safety device that's available to all of us.
 
Wiliam Shakespeare
(Julius Caesar. Act 2 Scene 3)
Talking about the inevitability of death

Cowards die many times before their deaths.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard
,It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

Somerset Maughan (1933)
Talking about the futility of trying to hide from Death.

"The Appointment in Samarra"

There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, "Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned, I saw it was Death that jostled me.

"She looked at me and made a threatening gesture, now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me".

The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went.

Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, "Why did you make a threating gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning?

"That was not a threatening gesture", I said, "it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra".
 
I read an article about 5 years ago written by a guy who was a consultant for large corporations, dealing with personnel and HR problems. He said he got an invitation from a handful of the world's richest, most powerful people but couldn't say who since they forced him to sign an NDA. (So if I had to guess, Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos, the Google guys, Waltons maybe?)

Anyway, he shows up at the huge yacht that one of them owned all ready to go with his data on effective hiring, employee-employer relations, etc.--he had prepared extensively--and when he started getting out all his info., charts, slides, etc., they told him, "Oh, put all that away. We brought you here to answer just one question. When TSHTF and we all retreat to our safe compounds, etc., what can we do to keep our private security forces loyal to us?"

He said he told them, "Just pay' em good and let them bring family, loved ones, and closest friends into the compound with themselves." He said, they all burst out laughing, saying, "No, really, all kidding aside, what can we do to ensure their loyalty?" He told them, "I'm not kidding. That's the best thing you can do." He said they all frowned at him and dismissed him.
 
officerripley said:
I read an article about 5 years ago written by a guy who was a consultant for large corporations, dealing with personnel and HR problems. He said he got an invitation from a handful of the world's richest, most powerful people but couldn't say who since they forced him to sign an NDA. (So if I had to guess, Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos, the Google guys, Waltons maybe?)

Anyway, he shows up at the huge yacht that one of them owned all ready to go with his data on effective hiring, employee-employer relations, etc.--he had prepared extensively--and when he started getting out all his info., charts, slides, etc., they told him, "Oh, put all that away. We brought you here to answer just one question. When TSHTF and we all retreat to our safe compounds, etc., what can we do to keep our private security forces loyal to us?"

He said he told them, "Just pay' em good and let them bring family, loved ones, and closest friends into the compound with themselves." He said, they all burst out laughing, saying, "No, really, all kidding aside, what can we do to ensure their loyalty?" He told them, "I'm not kidding. That's the best thing you can do." He said they all frowned at him and dismissed him
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Forgot to add: Of course, none of the above is funny.
 
Their money being spent to employ designers, construction workers, sales to them of all the items they think they will need.

I don't have a clue as to what they perceive will happen. Meanwhile at least some portion of their money is pumped back into the local economy where they live.

If the expectation is total world destruction then how long would they survive if all they could do was spend money to have others do what they couldn't?
 
Muskrat said:
Holy smokes. Why do we care??
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Because these people, being who they are, and doing things the way they do, will most likely not build these places in a manner that will either harm nothing, no one or as few as possible; rather, they will of course operate as they always have (it's made them rich, after all, except for what they inherited, of course) and run roughshod over the surrounding environment and anyone living nearby. Case in point, Mark Zuckerberg's (Mr. Facebook/Meta) compound being built in Hawaii:

"Zuckerberg initially hid the purchases of land using shell companies and brokers to disguise them. Those shell companies are now involved in several lawsuits claiming they pressured locals with ancestral land rights to sell the land or get into a bidding war at auction with one of the richest men in the world." To read the rest of the article:

Mark Zuckerberg Spent $187 Million Secretly Buying 1,600 Acres of Hawaii Land, And Now He Is Reportedly Building A Massive Self-Sustaining Apocalypse Bunker
 
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I feel the same about any survivalists, tbf. If the world goes to hell, I don't want any part of it. At my age, surviving is the last thing I'd worry about.
 
Well, the very rich will always have safety options, amenities, etc. that the rest of us don't have. Forgive me for being flippant, but so what else is new? Life is unfair, and probably always will be.

If I were to be worried about the world going to hell in a handbasket, I would not waste my time and emotions on worrying about whether the rich have a little more of a safety margin, whether they deserve it or not. Of course they would. And that has been the case since mankind evolved.

There are much bigger issues to be worried about.
 
The evidence looks to be pretty good that humans are the only animal on the planet that has the capability to alleviate (at least a little) unfairness. So I think that's why some of us think about unfairness.
 
Weren't they building fallout shelters en mass during the first cold war although not as elaborate.

Rich criminals have been buying things like entire islands for decades like Epstein Island.

It's just extreme prepping
 

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