Can I start a conspiracy theory? The reason he wants this, is he earnestly believes in the collapse of civilisation and he wants to use this as a back up plan to ensure he has a source of compliant slaves

[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's an interesting idea.

Billionaire preppers are already exploring the question:

"How do I maintain authority over my security force after 'the event'?" one of the men asked

Article I got that from

[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I kinda got the idea from a similar article

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or he’s hoping to cheat death by merging the chips with starlink, creating a hivemind.

[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Can I read that book?

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think that's a subset of an already existing conspiracy theory, possibly linked to "effective accelerationism"

[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, he thinks he deserves to be king in that scenario, but even he realises that all he has is money. No connections or valued skills