Economy Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we all be worried?

[Striderxdj]

Always relevant:

 

[HunterAcosta]

They can bunker themselves up all they want but it won't save them if shit really hits fan. Until terminator style robots can protect them ( even then it's a gamble ) , they are relying on human ex special forces guys to protect them . I listened to Jocko the navy seal talking to another operator on his podcast . They both basically said that in apocalypse the guys protecting you WILL off you and take over .

 

[PhitePhan]

 

[deviake]

What is the point of doom prepping if you can just leave the country? It feels like flexing for no reason. If the U.S. starts rioting and I am rich, I ain't living it out in a bunker. Rich people are often retarded because money means nothing past a certain point.

The problem is largely global. It's getting worse all over, not just in the US. That said, these people seem to be completely out of touch with reality and from what I understand studies confirm this. They can't relate to us. They're also not that intelligent.

 

[nonoob]

Always relevant:

Do Australians, besides in Sydney, have a prepared plan just in case current one fails?

This is Sydney in 2025. This is what an Islamic invasion looks like.

<div>It's not an invasion if they were let in by your government its treason!</div> <div> </div>

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[USA!USA!]

They have too much time and money and don't have anything better to do.. so they go on side quests and do shit like this because normal life seems too boring.. Must be nice having infinite money lol

 

[AWilder]

I've seen mentions in the past about the wealthy wanting to have dual citizenship in case a communist took power in America. No one would want to live long in the US under a Venezuela type government.

Thanksgiving Socialism​

A reflection on the only reason we get to celebrate Thanksgiving.​

Thanksgiving Socialism | Frontpage Mag

A reflection on the only reason we get to celebrate Thanksgiving.

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People are turning to socialism. Two-thirds of Americans ages 18-29 hold a “favorable view” of it.

New York just elected a “proud socialist” mayor. My video explains why his ideas would make things worse.

Of course they would! Socialism has never worked. Anywhere!

Yet Seattle, too, just elected a socialist mayor.

“Let’s give socialism a chance,” said a student writing in The Student Life, a college newspaper.

Americans should know we already gave socialism a chance. The only reason we get to celebrate Thanksgiving with lots of food is because the Pilgrims learned (the hard way) that socialism doesn’t work.

When they came to America, they first tried sharing land. Gov. William Bradford decreed that each family would get an equal share of food, no matter how much they worked.

The results were disastrous.

Few Pilgrims worked hard, claiming “weakness and inability,” wrote Bradford. “Much was stolen.”

The same plan in Jamestown led to starvation, the death of half the population, even cannibalism.

Learning from their mistakes, the Pilgrims tried a different approach: “Every family was assigned a parcel of land,” wrote Bradford. Then, he noted, Pilgrims “went willingly into the field.”

That’s capitalism.

Soon, there was an abundance of food. So much that the Pilgrims and Natives could celebrate Thanksgiving together.

This abundance has only grown.

We’ll feast on vast amounts of food this Thanksgiving that, despite media clickbait, is much more affordable than it used to be. Today, Americans spend only 10% of our disposable income on food. When I started working, it was twice that.

This abundance didn’t come with people in government manipulating supply chains, or comrades dictating prices and quality.

It comes from millions of people practicing capitalism, making billions of voluntary exchanges.

It comes from free people willing to innovate and take risks, in an attempt to make more money by serving customers better than the next guy.

This process almost always works better than government central planning.

Without central direction, farmers, truckers and grocers move food across the country with remarkable coordination and efficiency.

Stores compete so fiercely that they sell turkeys at a loss, just to get you through their doors.

Global competition drives airlines to lower their fares so it’s cheaper for you to fly home for Thanksgiving.

And despite the media’s alarms about climate change creating food shortages, global agricultural output sets record highs year after year.

Government didn’t orchestrate any of that. Government can barely manage a DMV line.

Markets create abundance because they quickly reward people who figure out how to make things cheaper, faster and better.

That’s what I’m thankful for this Thanksgiving.

The alternative looks a lot like Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea …

While we enjoy the gifts that free enterprise brings, AP reports that in Venezuela, “every meal is a struggle.”

NBC, before going on to write silly stories that practically promote socialism, admits that in Cuba, residents face “daily blackouts lasting up to 20 hours, mounting piles of uncollected garbage, and severe shortages of food and basic goods.”

When politicians try to control the economy, the abundance you get … is scarcity.

We live in a country where choices overwhelm us, and shortages are something we read about in the news.

It should make us grateful. Not just for the food, but for the free enterprise system that creates it.

This Thanksgiving, as you go around the table to say what you’re thankful for, take a moment to thank the farmers, truckers, pilots, grocery workers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and, most importantly, the economic freedom that makes it all possible.

Let’s not let socialist idiots kill it!

Abundance doesn’t happen by accident. It won’t continue if we forget where it came from.

What a retarded post

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

Always relevant:

The Soviets were whaling just to keep people employed. You cannot escape human greed.

 

[Stoic1]

I am fascinated by preppers (they used to be called "survivalists" where I grew up. Not sure if that changed or it was a regional thing)

I don't think that I have ever met any really, really hard core preppers but the prepper-adjacent types mostly struck me as people unhappy with how their lives had turned out and seemed to relish the thought of a great societal re-set that would make then the "winners". Sure, it would be kinda a hellscape but they would finally turn the tables and be rewarded for their worldview and skills. Like, "I enjoy hunting on the weekends but I really, really enjoy hunting on the weekends while also fantasizing about that rich asshole who drives a Porsche dying of hunger because he does not know how to hunt"

Im pretty much the prepper or prepper adjacent type and I LOVE MY LIFE.

I don't want a societal reset and have a very clear picture of what that looks like throughout history. Unimaginable suffering for everyone.

Two things:

1. People living life as if these massive changes don't happen are simply ignorant and I have very little sympathy for them. It isn't hard to plan ahead - whether that be have a rainy day fund, or a 72hr bag.

2. I'm sure there are those bunker dwelling weirdos hoping to rule over the wasteland but I've never met any and I hang around with a lot of these weirdos. Most them just don't want to let their families down in case of some catastrophe.