Tech billionaires buying luxurious bunkers, but ...

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Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

not just tech billionaires. somewhere in my little itty bitty East Tennessee town someone bought a bunch of acres that includes a whole mountain or as some here call it a ridge. bored a hole though the base of it and built a giant survival bunker. ive not seen it but only heard of it. I guess some need a safe place to stash the horde of gold bars that they think the will survive on when the world ends.

I wonder if there are enough of them doing it that it will impact rural real estate prices and make it harder for city-bound people itching to get back to the land to make the jump.

Man, I wish I could find an article I read about 7 years ago. It recounted some of these techies talking. One of them always told his friends, "It's better to volunteer in a soup kitchen and try to solve the problems before they start than to just pour your money into a bunker." Obviously, there are problems that soup kitchens can't solve, like natural disasters. But these folks were nervous about societal disasters.

Elgoog is not helping me find that article.