Paco Dennis
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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.
...
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."
...
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!"
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.
...
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."
...
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!"
