Billionaire bunkers: How the 1% are preparing for the apocalypse

Op, don't forget the race to colonize the moon and Mars. What's really behind that?

r1 When the Earth is no longer habitable, the 1% has to have somewhere to go, and it won't be the low mountains of Wyoming.

I feel sorry for the super-rich if they're the only ones to survive an apocalypse; with everyone else gone, who will they exploit?

They'll have to turn on each other, I guess.

^ And turn on each other they will.

...Or they could just pay their bloody taxes so we can sort the mess out before it comes to an apocalypse.... but that would be socialism and we can't have that.

I wonder if these underground bunkers are earthquake proof.

And if the apocalypse happens what will these people come back to when it's safe to come out again? Everything will be gone including whatever power they once had. If it happens I believe most of them will end up wishing they would have died along with all the others.

These are the actual "jobs" that are being "created". Talk about your pernicious economic cycles - now useless vanity bunkers for the super rich. Wooo - what a healthy economy. Now let's militarize the police some more so arms makers can have jobs, too!

Can we just send the 1% there now?

How will they get there in time, to the Black Hills of South Dakota, for instance, if the apocalypse comes without ample warning?

Good luck growing your own food, assholes.

I love that the bunker highlighted above has glass walls, so that they can look out into the devastation. What a view.

CNN is linking this article again on their site. And these bunkers look amazing. Kind of shitty if you think about it though.

I guess this one has better photos or maybe it's just been updated.

A generation ago the magnificent Leslie Fish thought this out.

And then Leslie took it to it's logical conclusion.

They are all buying up large chunks of the South Island of New Zealand. There are at least 3 that I know of based in and around the Otago region that I have heard about.

How many of these are off-shore bunkers?

Is the despicable gay peter thiel still building his libertarian paradise in the pacific?

die die you mutherfukers

Who exactly will maintain these large luxurious Underground bunkers for the Uber Wealthy...after the apocalypse?

Those kitchens and bathrooms won't clean themselves....those meals won't cook themselves

if they have no poor immigrant workers to exploit

The rich will spazzing out to their bunkers and mars and people on earth will Be just fine, possibly even flourish because the greediest and most selfish will be sealed in bunkers. They will then poke their heads out of their gofer holes and wonder why nobody misses them. Then they will surface, pretend nothing ever happen and start pillaging and looting again.

I firmly believe we are all just slaves now to a very small number of people. They're manipulating us like puppets.

R23 your comment made me sad

Bunker walls won't stop nuclear radiation or drones. It's ego-driven boosterism: I am so damn great that I have the money and power to protect myself from all threats and to maintain my deluxe lifestyle. As if.

^ They are not earthquake proof either.

And not only that, but most (not all, but most) of those who will be housed in these bunkers don't have a conscience or moral code and will get into power wars with each other and kill each other off. They are too egotistical and arrogant to figure that out on their own.

whos gonna wash the shit from their drawers or raise their fetid brats if everyone else is gone?

rich but completely worthless

Whose going to clean my toilets?

R19 I think Thiel already has bought a piece of land in NZ

Yup, those "communal" "luxury" bunkers are going to turn into Lord of the Flies hellholes within a month after the apocalypse, when the sociopaths inside start turning on one another.

It's a shame none of us would be around to watch the livestream.

Lol that would be quite a sight r30

It mentioned that some of them plan to take their staff with them. Once they're all sealed underground, what's to prevent the staff from turning on them?

This is just like those dumb-asses to do something like this. Being so worldly, and caught up in the frivolity of all the world has to offer, they're prepping to continue on in the world EVEN after total annihilation strikes. Yes. Rather than die along with the rest of us, they'd still seek to continue existing in a world which will offer absolutely NOTHING of what they had known prior. GENIUSES, ALL OF THEM!