What's darkly funny about this to me is that these so-called "tech titans" all think there will be "an event" and then we will live in a Fallout/Mad Max/Wasteland world, but they also claim to be huge fans of Roman history, the empire that nobody can agree "this is when it fell."
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Anyway, just another example of their humorous ignorance. They all think they are going to live like kings in tiny castles, but even kings required the support of thousands of people in functioning communities spread across the land. All these bunkers are doing is making some construction co's rich.
Jesse Heinig
Douglas Rushkoff discloses key question by tech titans when he was paid to address the group on 'the future of technology'. Took only minutes to get to "How do I maintain authority over my security force after 'the event'?"
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10...
Jesse Heinig
www.abc.net.au
This professor was invited to speak at a meeting of billionaire preppers. It got weird.
These tech billionaires always go for the flashy, high-concept sci-fi, like cities on Mars and consciousness uploading, and they decry the logistics of boring material existence, like making sure that people are fed and housed.
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As a result they look to Rome because it's dramatic and imperial and conquest-oriented, instead of looking at peasant revolts, which were incredibly common and bloody. They want to be emperors and priest-kings, but emperor of what? A tiny survival bunker of a hundred people?
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Modern civilization relies on interconnections of many highly specialized pieces, and without the ability for different polities to interact and trade, it's hard to sustain. Supplies break down and run out. Replacements are impossible to make. Knowledge becomes lost.
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We're already seeing a lot of this: The collapse of infrastructure, inability of people to have their basic needs met, hoarding of wealth by the few and the inability of government to provide basic safety, regulation, and infrastructure for constituents.
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That's why it's so important to generationally transmit knowledge and to encourage problem-solving skills. Otherwise you wind up run by dolts who accidentally poison the entire water supply for everyone and you have nowhere to go for help.
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