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A Boring Dystopia
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I’ll bet that every fucker that bought something like that would hang themselves before the end of the first month of apocalypse
I don’t even get the point of them for billionaires. Like what, you’ll emerge after some calamity and say “well actually I was very wealthy and important in the old world”? These things are going to serve as glorified loot chest for the desperate who survive any sort of scenario that justifies their use. Assuming people don’t just seal up all the intakes and entrances to spite them. No one survives the surface? There’s going to be nothing for these people to return to anyway.
That’s all just assuming the security detail/staff transporting them don’t just shoot them and take their spot after hearing “thanks for getting us here and keeping us safe but there’s only supplies and room for my family, so back to the apocalypse you go”. So fucking stupid.
"Let's raid the loot dungeon in the hills!"
Maybe they plan to emerge with gold? Honestly stumped about what I'd do in their shoes to try and reassert my place in society. Maybe just start employing people with gold reserves, use that as venture capital to start a new business empire.
So, never take jobs from a mysterious stranger who pays well. Anyone who works for bunker people should be made into outlaws.
Gold would have 0 value, so that's not an option either
I agree that it has little intrinsic value, but unless all of history and culture was erased I think it would still be regarded as a store of value.
I read an article from the Bosnia war, and someone who lived through it said the currencies were, in order of importance: lighters, batteries, ammunition, food.
Right but... Like... Is an entire country going to suddenly enter the mindset of a Bosnian prepper from the 90s? That's definitely a bigger apocalypse than we're talking about
I would think actual useful survival things are worth far more. What would you rather have after doomsday or whatever, a tonne of gold, or a lighter?
I mean, weird to keep arguing after I said I agreed for my own part. But I recognise others don't think as we do.
Why do you seem to believe that after thousands of years people would suddenly not regard gold as precious? That belief deserves to be interrogated.