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been thinking about buying a $60 million bunker.... lmk what you think!!
It's a great idea, but don't forget the staff room
Never go full libertarian, tiff! And never befriend the seasteading people.
This is insane.
Don't forget to account for those disciplinary collar costs! That will set you back quite a bit
Splurge and go for the 100 million one, it's not like you have to worry about the next 25 years of your life at that point.
I find it hilarious that anyone thinks the concept of "staff" or "boss" would persist inside a bunker.
for real 😭😭 I don’t understandddddd
love the headspace those people live in, genuinely thinking they wouldn't immediately get overthrown lol
Because they can't cook or make coffee for themselves 😭😂😂
And they wouldn’t be paid but be allowed the *privilege* of being in the bunker 😳
@@kuroroedamame My money is on them revolting and eating the rich. Literally
Them making room for staff quarters is giving the ancient nobility trying to take servants into the afterlife 😭
right, I thought she was joking when said “room for staff” 😭 like what?
It has a pyramid vibe.
THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT
The "collars" though! WHAT the ACTUAL fuck?!
Right lol as if anyone is going to continue to follow the monetary driven societal structure into the apocalypse. Like the world ended, your money doesn’t mean crap. The fact that these people still believe that others will continue to serve them into the apocalypse just shows how entitled and out of touch they are. It’s like how Chinese emperors would kill their entire staff to be buried along side them when they die. Delusional.
I find it so fascinating that they felt the need to add staff rooms to their doomsday bunkers. Even in the apocalypse billionaires can't imagine catering for themselves
Exactly they rely heavily upon their staff, yet they wouldn’t have the same privileges.
Wouldn’t the staff want to be with their own families too not in their boss’s man cave forced to work for no pay (like how are they paying for labour lol)
I thought they were so hard working and did everything themselves??? Why would they ever need other people to labor for them?????
@@preraphaeliteshaolin1520 yeah like this isn't a victorian mansion with room for the staff, their families, and a billion guests, the staff quarters are probably just like. Bunks or smth. Not that the landed gentry were great for servants either but still
They truly act like their butlers wont just turn around and kill them. Like... Bro...
The whole "use it for business meetings" is 100% code for "tax write-off." 🙄
Bingo.
main critique of this is that if an actual apocalypse happened and you have a restaurant in your bunker that has workers, those workers are locked in a bunker working for money during an apocalypse when they can't spend it anywhere. so that wouldn't go well for the bunker owner in the end tbh, love how you found a real example of the rich thinking about this
Working for money - more like working for the privilege to stay with their masters.
@@zephiel70 This. You would basically be working to be allowed to stay in their stupid bunker to serve them till you die.
this is when literally eating the rich will come into play.
I imagine if money was worthless, it'd be working for the privilege of staying in the bunker. Honestly though I don't know what would stop the workers from banding together and kicking the boss out of the bunker.
I don't think that they designed these for the actual apocalypse... 😆 I think they just wanted to sell these for rich people and thought that the whole end of the world bunker is a nice marketing. Rich people are bored and nothing to buy and this will give them random bragging rights. 😂 It's completely ridiculous, most of these things in the bunker are useless if the world ended. 😅 Like how long could you keep swimming pool and sauna running in the apocalypse. Jeez.
I feel like the desire for a bunker is the same as the desire for space travel and building colonies on other planets just to continue these unsustainable capitalistic ways and escape from the rest of us/the disasters that their wealth hoarding and accumulation created on this planet... it's all terrifying
Yeah, destroying the earth and trying to build something on other planets is so rediculous. And some people see them as heroes. How don't they realize that it would be easier to try save the earth. Even Neil de Grasse Tyson was saying it but then flipped
@@nhvkuy4675 100% agree; it would be logical, easier, and more beneficial for the overwhelming majority of us to create a sustainable and equitable future but they don't want to do that because it would mean their lifestyle of overconsumption and exorbitant wealth would end. I think it just shows how completely committed they are to maintaining capitalism and their way of life, even if that means everyone else suffers needlessly (already seeing this bc it is a foundation of capitalism) It's so fascinating but mostly horrifying that they think they can somehow escape the apocalypse via a bunker or through outer space/another planet instead of just helping to fix the damage they did to this planet - the only one that we know of which hosts life.
While also, simultaneously making that apocalypse happen as quick as they could, the desire of safe bunker and destroying the planet themselves on the same time 😅😭 like cmon now
when the rich are eventually "eaten" they should take the ones with the megabunkers and just seal them inside them.
While I agree on the bunkers space travel is so much deeper than that even before mega rich existed humanity had a desire to travel we traveled all the earth covered oceans and air and landed on our closet object the moon. The desire for space travel is the desire for the next step for movement and continuation of technology we always desired space and the horrors jt could bring and things we can fine rather that's for new resources or for new life the desire to travel beyond earth isn't much a money desire as it it's the next natural step of thinking, evolution, and technology
im turkish, and we have been experiencing destructive earthquakes for about 3 and a half months. i never even KNEW what an earthquake emergency bag was, but now i have 4 in my house for each person. you don't realize how dangerous it is to be unprepared until your life is in potential danger. 10 cities in my country are destroyed, not just because people were unprepared, but also because the people who built those apartments and houses used cheap materials like sand while constructing the foundations. just to save money. almost 50 thousand people died so that they could have a bit more money. if you're reading this, keep in mind; the government doesn't care. your employers don't care. the idiots who supplied the materials for the building of your house don't care. as she said, when shit hits the fan, you're either prepared or you die.
I'm sad to hear that, and also about the fact that the media didn't inform me in the first place. I hope you loved ones and you stay safe 😔
@@meganegamache-marion3737 It's been all over the news...
The rage-inducing thing is that we have had decently strong earthquakes in Cyprus and Greece too, in the past, but because all our buildings are built to withstand earthquakes due to location, the damage was nowhere near as bad as this. It's entirely driven by greed and lack of care for safety in the name of profit and it's disgusting and heartbreaking to see, knowing that most of this could have been prevented
so true. also damn, you had to go through that... :(
First of all, I'm so sad to hear that and I hope you and your loved ones get through this. I'm German and have thought everything is Turkey was slowly getting back to normal after the initial earthquakes. Seems like the exact opposite. Is it still the southeast which is affected the most? Actually I was thinking about doing an extensive road trip to turkey late summer but now I'm not so sure anymore.
I’ve come to the conclusion that the real reason rich people are building bunkers is not because of the apocalypse or climate change, but rather to hide out when we finally unite as a people & rise up against them.
Again, let’s just seal them inside. Worst case scenario is they mutate into mole people but at least then they would reflect their true nature on the outside.
Ya can't eat the rich if ya can't break into their luxury bunker!
thankfully we can just pour concrete into the air vents
I don't want anything more but to see that happen. Absolutely nothing more.
@@brb3222 😂😂
This is why I can’t take people seriously who say, “Once the rich and powerful realize that climate change is coming for us all, they’ll start changing their ways/supporting renewable energy/building a better future.” Like, absolutely not. They’re already prepared for and fine with holing up in their billionaire bunkers until they die.
so i worked in a mega wealthy russian family's private compound about 10 years ago (truly a wild time) and can confirm us staff were not allowed to use any of the facilities, even when the family were not going to be in the house that day/week/month, or when we were quarantined there during a health scare 😬 and we also had no way to leave the compound once we were there because you needed a driver to get out of the neighbourhood
Girl you did what??? Love your videos btw 🤣
Hi Rowan!! Omg firsthand experience, even quarantining there! That is intense
@@tiffanyferg truly the wildest period of my life haha
That is wild! That reminds me... I love your video on _The Purge_ film series and its social themes & implications, btw. Among so many others!
that's so wild but also just goes to show that they literally don't care about their staff and don't see them as people.... they think it's enough to just feed you when you're literally trapped in a compound with them.
I have absolutely no desire to stick around and try to survive (under any conditions) in a truly apocalyptic situation. Anyone else? I’ll see y’all in the next one 🕊️
When I think about this in realistic terms, I'm absolutely with you. An acquaintance of mine several years ago pointed out that, practically speaking, one of the first things she'd have to do during an actual zombie apocalypse was humanely put down her emotional support ferrets so they wouldn't suffer (I think at the time she had some that needed medication and would sicken and die without it, and honestly most domesticated small animals don't really stand much of a chance anyway if they're trapped in a house/apartment/etc without their owners [thank you old Supernatural fanfic for putting THAT thought permanently in my head] ), and ever since then I've really lost my taste for sticking around if everything does go to shit like that.
Same, I'm Pretty disabled and rely on lots of meds and medical interventions to survive. I'm outta here if I'm unlucky enough to survive the initial apocalypse. I have no desire to survive that only to die slowly from lack of medical intervention. No thanks. I'm Outta here.
Absolutely. Prepping, if taken THAT far seems just some sort of coping mechanism to me to not having to deal with real feelings. If something really bad were to happen, it would be a long term scenario where a couple of months in a bunker wouldn't be nearly enough time. People really need to facing their inner demons, no matter if rich or ultra right or whatever, and start to live more in the present. This is not healthy.
Especially as a woman …
Same I’ve always said this 🤣 take me out first honestly
imma need a sick hbo quality tv show about the staff of an apocalypse bunker having a rebellion
Silo is on HBO right now and it has those kinda vibes haha
Fallout series about to drop that's why I'm here
I look forward to the wildly more expert "staff" taking over the bunkers.
Right? Those Navy seals would get their own families moved in there pronto
I suspect the ultra rich would bring a few security men to "keep the peace"
@@lewildwest The navy seals would completely take over and move their buddies and their buddies families in there too as well as their own
@@lewildwestgo full parasite
@@alexlemaire8513LITERALLY
When I was in Georgia a couple months ago, we stopped off at an ENORMOUS rural flea market. These people were peddling almost anything you could think of. Food, supplies, livestock, weapons, shampoos, clothes, movies, collectors items, EVERYTHING. It was an incredible experience, and I left thinking that THESE are the people who are going to know how to survive if we ever have an "event". The community there felt so strong, as did the self-sufficiency. Even if money became irrelevant, this place would be a hub for trading and bartering. It goes back to what you said about Community, we need each other. This market was such a LARGE community that there was an incredibly vast inventory too.
One of the few times I see someone saying anything nice about GA. Thank you🥰
@@cottage-core_ of course!! 💙 I’m your neighbor over in Alabama so I’m in a similar boat lol 😆
Humanity survived off of community and trade without money before, we will survive without it again. So if we truly want to be prepared, we need to build strong connections and learn practical skills. Nobody who needs a car collection or a whiskey club will survive. Instead people willing to dig through the dirt to find some plants king forgotten, who can greet every person on the street by name, who can make things will thrive. In some ways, I imagine that both very religious people, and lgbtq+ people might do well. Religious people tend to have a worship community, often I gliding helping each other out and meeting up outside of sermons. And queer people (here used to mean lgbtq+, by a member of that group) have historically had to find each other and form a group to survive.
i went to a plus sized clothing swap recently that also featured local vendors and i know what you mean! it felt really good to be there with others in my community and help each other. also i got some really kickass shirts and bought some really cool jewelry. :D
Amen
I’d rather take my chance with the apocalypse than to be regulated as a slave with my only “reward” being my own life. I’ll die free at the hands of whatever cosmic horror is gonna eat me
Also what happens if "the staff" is incapacitated by injury, disease, age, etc? Does evil Richie Rich toss them out when they're no longer of value? Realistically, no one would show up for the job... they'd all be already dead or trying to survive with those who actually matter to them (unless these billionaires manage to hire a bunch of hardhearted opportunists, in which case have fun with a staff of psychopaths, that'll work out well 🤔)
Reminds me of an episode of Doomsday Preppers I saw where the expert's advice to the family of preppers was literally "invite your neighbors to participate in your preparations." Like survivalist experts KNOW that community is the way to handle large scale disaster.
It’s actually funny because most likely all those “precious collections” would mean nothing in a post apocalyptic world. They would hold no value because most people would be fighting over food, medicine, resources, etc. not art and sculptures. 😂
during, sure - but if it ended, they'd be the only ones left...
In a PAW, that ridiculous Bugatti sitting in a garage means nothing. But I'll search the house for snacks and food. Those are the real valuables, not the fugly car.
It would be really funny if millionaires went into these bunkers hoping to get away from everything outside... and then an EMP just killed their entire energy infrastructure. I bet these companies don't even think about how smart locks would probably not work in an energy shortage.
Thanks for the laugh! I still remember how there was a (satellite?) problem and people's smart locks stopped working. Smart-ifying everything is not great.
it cracks me up how many of these bunkers have honking ginormous generators to provide electricity for the damn movie theaters. Yes, I've seen ads for them and there are movie theaters in a few of those billionaire playboy bunkers. Did those morons ever think that those generators do not run forever? It shows that they think ignoring how real life works makes their problems go away, LMAO. It would be just hilarious if Billy Boy Gates was in his bunker enjoying his kiddie porn videos when suddenly, the genny sputters to a halt and he finds out that he has no gasoline to run them. Suddenly, all that farmland isn't worth shit.
my dad is a family man and has serious prepper tendencies. some years ago he was building a water-collecting system and he specifically chose a water tank that was big enough so it could be drained and, if necessary, could be climbed into to hide. he always bought food and soap in bulk (we were a family of eight) but after the war in Ukraine started he bought a lot of supplies and stashed them at his mother's house, which is near the German border on the very West of Poland, furthest you could get from the Ukrainian border. It's been nerve-wracking. the pandemic didn't kill us, but a war seems much more immediate, especially since WWII is still so fresh in the Polish collective memory. we have distant relatives in Ukraine (my grandma is Lemko) who are thankfully fine, but the millions of people who have fled our way are decidedly not. if any of you reading this is European and/or know of someone who has fled Ukraine or has family there - reach out to them, ask if they need help with anything. people are gouging for money even now and charging more from those with Ukrainian accents. you wouldn't believe the crazy amounts of money people take for basic things like a loaf of bread or a pack of baby diapers from those too desperate to be picky, and that's on top of inflation.
That's heartbreaking 😢
Thank you so much for your support! Polish people are MEGABASED. Lots of love from 💙💛
I’m Ukrainian in America right now. Praying for you 🙏🏻
The best investment in the apocalypse is COMMUNITY. Social currency is the currency of the world. Humans only made it this far by working together. Not by “escaping the rest of us”
Exactly!!!
So true! Humanity survived and evolved by forming families and communities.
It’s the reason the media/politics use divisive tactics. Keeps people squabbling so we don’t work together
thats what i wanna see more of in post-apoc fiction! not "clint eastwood With Gun", yawns i mean damn during the pandemic what i remember most is my mom checking on and helping our neighbors, giving away her excess stores of TP (she liked to buy bulk when on sale)
I found that article a couple years ago and I’ve told so many people about it. It blows my mind that these monsters are shamelessly behaving like mustache twirling cartoon villains. It. Is. Disgusting.
I know everyone's already saying this, but the absolute audacity these people have to make "crew quarters". Why do they assume that their employees will elect to stay with them indefinitely during an apocalypse? Also, it's just asking for a mutiny to happen, should people choose to lock themselves in there. If currency loses its value, the only way you are keeping your employees around is to befriend them, but we all know that it's not gonna happen. There's a reason it's CREW quarters and not just more rooms.
They show no thought as to what could actually incentivise their 'staff' to stay and work for them, like having space for the families of these people. They also show no true long term thinking. Okay, you've got your fancy bunker full of fancy toys, but what happens if this apocalypse lasts more than a year? or more than five? They show one sparsely filled room with salad and herbs, instead of the densely packed hydro-/aeroponics that'd be actually efficient for growing your own food. I'd want to make sure I could produce what I need and also produce stuff that'd be valuable for trading with others.
@@luisasjouke1282 i mean they clearly don't understand how agriculture works or producing any raw materials for that matter. if you're preparing for an "event" yeah definitely stock up on some food and stuff that has a long shelf life but within a few months to a year you're going to have to start producing it. the best way for humans to actually survive would be living in a commune where many people with many different specialties can work together. have farmers to grow food, have weavers and tailors to make clothes, have doctors and nurses and medical professionals to treat the sick and assist with childbirth. the rich in their bunkers aren't planning for this. their idea of staff is like butlers and security lmao. with respect to these professions, those skills aren't going to help them grow potatoes.
@@luisasjouke1282it also struck me that there were no bicycles shown. I get that they’re not the sexiest thing, but they’re much better in a multi year disaster where there’s a great chance the roads get destroyed
Finding out that the world's richest are actively playing out the plot of AHS Apocalypse is simultaneously funny and depressing 😂
Lmaooo i rmbb the horrifying snake scene 😂😭 and the STUUU of it all
@@kuroroedamame STUUUU 😂😂😭😂😭
Yes this is what I immediately thought of!
Even if I HAD a billion bucks, I wouldn't buy a fercrissakes bunker. Those are death traps. It's worse than a castle because of an old tactic that has never failed: lay siege to it. Cut off all access. Eventually, they will have to come out to find more fuel for their two gas guzzling generators so they can keep watching kiddie porn in the private movie theaters! 😂
Interesting that they think in a doomsday scenario their staff would immediately display absolute loyalty and come to their bunker to protect them. Unless they have absolutely no ties I would expect the employees' first priorities to be their loved ones, whatever they've said to their employer previously lol.
Any time I think of an apocalyptic scenario, my mind just goes to, "you know, I think I'd rather be dead."
"I am a certified billionaire hater" tiff you had me within the first minute lmao
Disaster preparation is one thing, preparing to shut yourself into a bunker at the expense of others is another. I'm not sure if I'd want to be alive in that situation, I feel like I'd want to try to pull people together and help rebuild even if it literally killed me
@@cloudycolacorp Definitely. The people who are refusing to acknowledge that the pandemic is still happening remind me of this constantly. Which is to say, seemingly most people. I'm just shocked bc they don't seem to realized how dependent they are. Like when you get your third or fourth of fifth COVID infection, the one that finally permanently disables you, who do you think is going to help you? Not the government, not the medical industrial complex, not the job that you might not be able to work anymore. It's other people, and namely other disabled people, who are going to help you. And we are the ones most likely to be sacrificed in any disaster, including the one we're living through. I think it's easy to criticize rich people and not realize we're all drinking the same Capitalist Kool Aid and have internalized it. I doubt most of the people watching these videos know how connected everything is either, how much labor it takes to grow the food we eat, the things we buy that are manufactured in the Global South. We have a lot of internal work to do to build networks of support that will weather coming disasters, and "we" means all of us
"At the expense of others" is the key phrase.On the other hand all they'll be thinking about is living while the rest of us will be thinking about surviving and theres a difference between the two
The really grim part for me is that they don't explain how they're going to incentivise the staff to keep working through an apocalypse. Money doesn't work anymore, so I'm guessing brutal oppression, fear and punitive measures? Edit: just got to the part where this is addressed, and pretty much called it. Didn't think they'd stoop to shock collars, though...
Even that historically didn’t work in navies to prevent mutiny. This is especially true when food supplies became low or diseases started to run rampant. Often the lower sailors would get together to overthrow the captain. I’d imagine something like that happening in an environment where currency is worthless
After the COVID lockdown, I decided to start prepping. I couldn’t even find basic foods like rice, beans and flower. I’m not hoping for end times or anything, but even in times of scarcity, having extra food helps. Buying a little extra when things are cheap or on sale to store away. It’s even been helpful as an hourly wage worker because some paychecks are thin and cutting back on the groceries by using a little of what I have squirreled away helps me pay my electric bill on time. It sucks that there’s a stigma, but I recommend it just for piece of mind!
3:56-4:00 oh the batcave definitely doubles as a bunker. 100% there's at least one plot in the comics or cartoons where batman survives the apocalypse in it. he's famously paranoid and has a plan b to his plan z and contingencies for any outcome. he's definitely a prepper
That's kind of his super power, or the closest thing he's got to one, unless you count wealth lol
what would i do in a zombie apocalypse? probably die honestly
call me contrarian but I'm chill just peacing out and dying at the end of the world lol
Yeah I don’t know why people wanna live so much in a zombie apocalypse, it’s better to just die lol.
Id be dead. Super dead. Nearsighted, asthmatic, bad back. Id be so dead
This feels so dystopian and makes me insanely uncomfortable. I always figured it would happen eventually but not this fast lol
This has been happening for ages, like centuries. It's not a sign of impending doom or the end of the world it's just a new thing rich people have hyper focused on.
Every time this topic comes up i like to think of Bill Murray's character from "city of ember" getting eaten by an animal in his bunker that he thought was going to protect him :)
As someone who’s read the book, it’s better.
As someone who saw the devastating and VERY class-impacted effects of the Turkey and Syria earthquakes that killed hundreds of thousands of ppl this year, I felt so much rage watching this.
The way my life has been the past few years I feel like everyone is already like this they don’t need the bunkers to pretend it’s not going on around them. I just survived my first winter without proper electricity, and that’s nothing new like we know shit is bad and yet people who can afford not to worry about basic survival just forget people who struggle for necessities even exist sometimes
Yeah my family and i have never had central heating (or air conditioning) so the cold months hit hard, but we know how to deal with it best we can and have unfortunately gotten "used to it." People struggling with apocalyptic scenarios already exist but the rich couldn't fathom how bad it gets out here :/
A third of the Navajo population goes without running water and they can’t fathom losing their art…
bro's like "how will i keep my slaves under control???" smh
The fact that this video comes out the day that I learned our government wants us to be ready to survive for 3 days without access to electricity or water because it might take that long for any help to arrive in case of climate disasters 😫👌🏻
Oh wow! Where are you from?
@@Guineapigsreadingbooks Quebec! In March we had an ice storm that caused some people to be without electricity for almost a full week... And we're talking urban centers, not isolated villages 😬
@@betatree oh wow.
@@betatreevery similar to the Texas snowstorm of 2021
@@betatree multi-day outages that affect large numbers of people in a given area are common, and they're what I am prepping for, not a "zombie apocolypse" that I have no chance of surviving. My mother experienced a winter outage for a week in the St. Louis area around 2010 that effected 100,000 households in the area after an ice storm. That's why Chicago codes require buildings higher than 80 ft (7 stories) to have installed (not portable) generators to run the water pumps and elevators. I'd like one in my low-rise condo building powerful enough to run not only our water pumps, but the electronic controls on our gas boilers. People who don't have emergency generators should acquire winter tents and many extra blankets and long underwear to stay warm in their houses, and stockpile food that doesn't have to be cooked or refrigerated, along with multiple headlamps and emergency light bulbs, as hotels that are not affected fill up quickly when there's an outage that affects thousands.
I live in Italy, in my region, Emilia Romagna, rivers are flooding. 9 deaths so far and so many people lost their home. My town is divided into two by a river (Senio) that broke out further up and we're expecting that water to hit us in the next few hours. I have slept a grand total of 5 hours in the past 2 nights. I'm exhausted. I was looking for a video to keep my mind off things right now and I found this. lol, why not, it might fit the occasion
Hope you’re okay
I am, the wait is just so nerve-wracking. Thank you so much❤
This popping up after that trend on TikTok responding to the “I promised them women” quote, where women were talking about how they’d off themselves if they apocalypse started. I hope these people get crushed by their reinforced concrete. Ghouls. Monsters.
This has always fascinated me, especially the bizarre way they want to replicate their lives underground. Surely if you were that stinking rich you’d want books, seeds, the means to plant food, weapons, learning materials. It’s so utterly disaster capitalist it hurts. Money can buy you protection from those poor people we exploited!
This reminds me SO much of the second season of The 100 when (post-nuclear disaster) they find the descendants of a bunch of rich people in a massive underground bunker with vaults full of priceless art.
In high school, we did an exercise where we took a map of our city, and then drew the radius that the impact of an A-Bomb would have if it was dropped on our city. There wasn’t an area within an 8 hour drive that wouldn’t have been totally wiped out, collapsed, gone. Never mind the long term effects of groundwater contamination. These people live in a fantasy if they think these shelters won’t collapse in a real war.
Well, in case of war, it would be way more likely the urban areas and towns with critical infrastructure would be affected, than the rural areas where these bunkers are probably located. Witch is still total Bullshit. How do they expect to reach their bunkers, from their fancy LA Homes in time ?😂
I wouldn't want to survive a nuclear attack. NO place will be fit to live for a long time to come.
your comment about the pandemic really struck me like. we're not "preppers" but a family of outdoorsy campers. ive joked about having a mini REI in our basement. my mom likes to buy tp in bulk when its on sale and keeps it in the basement alongside other paper goods. bc of camping we were in the habit of having hand sanitizer anyway. so when the pandemic hit, we were just fine, but you know what else we did? we reached out to our neighbors, checking in on people, and my moms on community groups online and ended up giving our excess TP to other people who didn't have enough. that, to me, is what preparedness is about. my mom lends out our camping equipment too because, hey, we have it, its expensive, other people can use it! community and caring about each other is what post-apoc stuff SHOULD be about, not the "lone survivor with gun"
It’s funny that none of these billionaires think they could just be… idk… kind enough to not invoke riots. Like honestly give workers some space and time to have their own lives and pursue their own interests within the bunkers and you probably wouldn’t have a ton of problems finding people to agree to it- at least for awhile.
i know right? like what's stopping a navy seal guy to kill the billionaire if he gets crossed?
I wouldn't mind doing a service job in exchange for security and comfort, but like... these people don't see serving staff as humans.
@@shart8008 a shock collar, apparently. this article is so baffling to me
Or invite these people, with their family, in as equals. Hey, you help with security, I’ll do this, you do that. We all share resources and do what we need to to survive. As soon as you introduce a leader and “servants,” especially when those servants are navy seals, then it’s never gonna work out. Instead of making it a luxury and wasting money on marble and movie theaters, make it a comfortable space for a few families to live in plus some nice amenities to keep everyone happy. (And fine, if you paid for it then you get the “bigger room” in or whatever.”)
@@XxdipstcklovrxX Octavia Butler's Parable series come to life, unfortunately.
They assume the staff would stay with them in an apocalyptic scenario for shelter loll
The thing that gets me about all these ultrarich preppers is that they still don't understand their own means of production. How're they gonna replace their clothing when it inevitably breaks down? God forbid they repair it, of course🙄
As someone who lives with a chronic illness and depends on life sustaining medication for the rest of my life, I would literally be dead in a few weeks without the pharmacy so this isn't even a thought I can entertain without feeling very uncomfortable 🙃
If I ever get the chance to play a post-apocalyptic TTRPG, I'm now determined to play as an escaped staff member from a billionaire's bunker.
Or you could stay there and try to overthrow them, and then use the resources they have to help probably dozens of others, if not more.
This reminds of the game Horizon Forbidden West where some Silicon Valley tech billionaire created a bunker and designed the interior to look like an Egyptian temple. He hid there with his harems and staff, and one journal from one of the girls say the guy's unbearable to live with and she just wished to die instead of spending another years with him. If I get stuck with some billionaire douche in a bunker, I'd rather die too.
lol the "staff" and the Praetorian guard will see those disciplinary collars and be like, "I think I'll take my chances on the surface, thanks."
There is a whole 'nother realm of preppers. Prepping for every day events is the widest spread kind of prepping, because every day presents the chance of little disasters. I'm a "grandma's purse prepper", I have a big ole purse with things like first aid stuff, granola bars, measuring tape, a multitool, sewing kit, and even a small notebook. In the car I keep a box of shelf stable food, pet food, a dog water bottle, and thermal blankets. I have bags packed in the entry way closet in case we need to flee because of wildfires. But everyday preppers emphasize one thing as more important than any of this: community. Community is what really helps people get through tough times. Food, childcare, pet care, emergency transportation, everything. Trusting each other is the only way we can take on what life throws at us. Billionaires don't have community.
my grandma was a prepper for a long time,,, she got my family 6 months of food (useful), but was living in a trailer to afford to buy a bunker. she ended up not buying one because my dad said if she did he would not go to it and att the end of the day she wanted to keep us safe,,, and the news show she listened to convinced her that's how she needed to do it. she still believes in the rapture, but she is not extreme on the conspiracy side of things like when I was a kid.
So she believes in the rapture … but doesn’t think she will be raptured ??
@@joryjustice probably she was preparing it for other revels, the preparations not necessarily can be for yourself but to help other people in the future, or your family or community.
As someone who tries to be lower waste, when Philadelphia (the city I live in) had a water crisis scare and using tap, even boiled, was not an option, I realized how crucial it is to have a few emergency water supplies. Even though I try not to use single use water bottles, have a few gallons just in case is definitely important.
My first thought when the staff was mentioned was how can they expect to be able to continue exploiting their workers? Are they truly this dumb and priviledged? But as the end of your video shows, of course they aren't. They are just incredebly cruel.
Douglas Rushkoff has a whole book called survival of the richest that’s fantastic. For a leftist, community based perspective on prepping, the podcast live like the world is dying is great.
Thanks for the recommendation
Came down to the comments to suggest the podcast and the book "The Next Apocalypse" by Chris Begley! It talks about how the fantasy of American individualism affects preparedness culture and narratives of apocalyptic scenarios/civilization declining, amongst other things.
Thanks I'll definitely check that out!
The audacity of that guy to think he has a hope of maintaining indefinite power over a whole group of Navy Seals... Good luck to him, I expect if it ever happens he will become bbq as soon as food stashes run low, if he still alive at that point
I love how rich people are flexing on each other by building yet more houses
The point of the bunker is to be as self-sufficient as possible. It's nuts to see these lavish floorplans, giant light panels, wildly extravagant use of water 🤨 But the treatment of the staff is even more nuts. Do they expect their staff to stay on and, what, leave their families behind to suffer through the apocalypse without them?? Are they going to make room and stock resources not only for their staff, but their staffs' extended families? Yikes Thanks for the video!!
We already live in a bunker. Nowhere to move and escape from this system to a better one.
I can kind of understand protecting some art or something else from a better time that make you feel something that helps psychologically soothe your mind in an apocalypse. Something to keep you from going crazy. I can see some staff or people keeping some of it, because there is no way they'll be loyal in an apocalypse unless want to be dehumanized.
Also, if people survive this apocalypse, it's inherently not the end of the world/ history. Preserving art, cultural artifacts, would of course not be a main priority... But I consider that valuable.
In our home we have a disaster plan. We have “go bags” (these include safety items and even diapers/toys for our kids; we update them often) in case we need to evacuate our home. We also have water and rice/beans as emergency food. It’s not crazy to think a natural disaster (or like with COVID) we may have to evacuate/shelter in place. It’s not extreme but it is realistic. It’s fascinating to see how much preparation people will put into possible scenarios. Ours is mostly for natural disasters/house fire/ situation. I highly recommend doing something simple adapted to your area
The only bunkers I see a point for in a private backyard is a Tornado Shelter.
Someone make a doomsday movie from the perspective of the staff of said doomsday bunker.
Came upon the Rushkoff article a few weeks ago and can't stop thinking about this topic. I started listening to his podcast (Team Human), where he said: "the best way to go meta on these guys is to be able to laugh, see them from the perspective of the comedy that they are trapped in and find … our own exit strategies from that story.” As you said in the beginning of the video, laughing at these dorks is fun. But it's also essential to seeing them for what they are so people can stop idolizing and projecting their aspirations onto them. Thanks for spreading this story, we all need to be talking about how to get rid of these guys and the system that allows them to exist.
Unrelated to this video but some other people made videos about watertok, and I just wanna applaud you for how you actually explored the nuances of it instead if relying on the fatphobia and misogyny you mentioned
I had the same thoughts about her video vs others I’ve seen! She’s great!
They wanna escape the doomsday that they are kinda fasilitating to possibly happen
Not even "kinda" or "possibly" lol. Just outright actively are. Even if they're not Jeff Bezos they're still hoarding disgusting amounts of wealth and the ultra wealthy have a Much higher carbon foot print (not trying to come off as aggressive or anything, I agree I just think the filler words are giving them slack they don't deserve)
I've read a scifi book called seveneves and it's about a group of people lucky enough to fly off the face of the earth before a disaster. The aftermath is pretty rough honestly, the worst human instincts come to the surface 😵
The security and seals would stay on just long enough to get in the bunker and rob them.
These people are delusional lol those navy seals also have family and friends do they really think they'll just go along with their plans?
Love the final point on community and getting the know ypur neighbors. Back in 2018 after Hurricane Maria the only reason we were able to survive and not go crazy/depressed was because of our neighbors. For 3-4 months without power we would all chip in and work as a community. It was great! ❤
Wealth does NOT equal human worth and they have none. They need to realize the only path to escape is an eviction from their body
It reminds me of solar punk as a genre, where there’s an apocalyptic flare to the world building but there’s more focus on switching to sustainable tech and community making. It’s very true that as things get more and more dire, community is really the only thing that we can look to for solace.
Also would the "help" be able to bring their family, close friends? No.
Total side note: I love your nail polish With Aotearoa being relatively okay with the climate crisis, I worry a lot about these rich people coming in and buying up all the land (the land which belongs to Māori) and stopping people from coming here who need to in order to survive Edit: I loved the commune in the last of us, too!
Honestly, it makes me think a lot about the game Horizon Zero Dawn. In the end, the doomers wouldn't have lasted in that scenario. What "saved" (no spoilers) humanity was everyone joining together to sacrifice to give time for the Zero Dawn project to complete. The second game explores these ultra rich and how they handled it and it's just really gross and sad.
Im imagining these people entombed in their bunker because their servants killed them and im here for it
I work in hvac construction, and I've actually had to build one of these high end doomsday bunkers on some billionaire's 60,000-acre property. The bunker itself was 40000 sq ft with bedrooms, bathrooms, medical bay with near full hospital capabilities, various vaults, bowling alley, theater room, various professional rooms. It was insane and honestly just made me think about how I'm buildin some rich dude's salvation while I'll be screwed lmfao
Take comfort in knowing that the more luxurious the bunker is, the less likely its occupants are to survive. The more goods and services you need, the less likely you are to make it through a period of real deprivation. What would happen to that guy in a situation where he can no longer obtain fuel for his generator, dispose of waste, or replenish his supply of MREs and booze? Especially booze! Survival skills, being physically fit, and a friendly community network of people willing to share and barter will do you a lot more good than that guy's luxury tomb.
It's stunning how this commercial shamelessly dedicates itself to the absolute 1% and how being able to have cocktail night and a swimming pool is desirable as opposed to use the same money to provide emergency shelter for thousands of people.
Rushkoff actually did a whole book on the topic beyond that article. It's called "survival of the richest". Truly fascinating stuff.
I live in a flood plain and a the poor in the city at least have a natural advantage. The "bad" areas are at higher elevation and the rich build on the river because the view of the river is seen as a flex....until your basement becomes and unplanned in ground swimming pool full of river water.
That shows you how the extreme tech advancement and prosperity of the past 130 years or so has made us complacent and, really, downright stupid. Before the 20th century, no one wanted to live on the water, but in the fabled "house on a hill". The waterfront was seen as undesirable because of frequent flooding and the presence of heavy industry and the disreputable businesses that served sailors and dock workers.
I’m confused why there are about 2 more baths to bedrooms, like super confused. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up poor and also I’ve lived/am living abroad and most places overseas are closer to 2-3 bedrooms to 1 bathroom. But isn’t it like a waste of water resources and such to have that many bathrooms? And are these bunkers providing their own water and sewage system? I mean if it’s for an apocalypse I doubt the normal infrastructure for that will still exist, lol
well you see, its just such an inconvenience to have to cross the _entire compound_ just to go to your bathroom. Honestly, you might as well just shit on the ground if you had to do that every time. And you can't use someone else's bathroom that's closer because that's _theirs._ So naturally, you need more bathrooms situated elsewhere for maximum convenience. /s btw
Even after a pretty major and scary earthquake where I live, people around me still thought it was a bit weird that I insisted on getting things like a good radio and other supplies. We live where the chance of a massive earthquake isn’t only possible it’s highly likely. Idk why I always seem to be more concerned about it than ppl around me. I think humans tend to want to cling to the idea that things won’t happen to them.
People are still surprised when I bring up my families preparedness kit. We live in the area the Big One earthquake will hit, but it doesn’t just work in case of an earthquake. About 2/3rds also is part of our camping equipment (the water and food should still be swapped out every once and a while still), and something we had to consider in 2020, the possible emergency fire evacuation supplies. Anyone who can afford it should have something like that, a bag or box they can grab and run with if worst comes to worst. The full two weeks recommended food and water might be too much to start with, but natural disasters do happen, it’s not delusional to want to be prepared. Even a sleeping bag, some old clothes and a coats/hats/etc. for extreme weather is better than nothing. These rich people are on a whole other level though, but I hope these bunkers end up not even working in an emergency like they’re supposed to. It would be really funny I think.
The fact that the world's elite think these bunkers are needed is concerning. But the fact that they think they'd be able to maintain a hierarchy like that when shit hits the fan is a relief, showing that maybe their insights into the future of society aren't that valuable after all.
i feel like the fact that these bunkers are somewhat common to be built for rich ppl is very much out of an insecurity around "omfg my wealth gneeee MY POSSESSIONS THAT QRE SO USEFUL FOR SURVIVAL" edit: actually maybe more a concern for escapism by keeping these impractical posessions because they cant deal with the fact that in a maybe perceived short amount of time they'll have to learn to survive not just the regular way but the hard way which i assume normal ppl would have an easier time than them
the waltons (walmart family) built a near billion dollar bunker. When Katrina devastated usa the walmart minimum wage employees raised hundreds of thousands for the victims of the hurricane whereas the waltons who - to reiterate - built a billion dollar underground apocalyptic bunker donated $5,000. (the high cost of low prices: walmart documentary 10/10 recommend)
I'm all for being prepared for emergencies, but I pretty much stick to my "72 hour" kit. I have the emergency bags that my family can get by on for 3 days if there is a natural disaster or something and we have no power or have to evacuate, we've got the basics covered for a few days. I've only had to use it once, and it was because we moved and didn't have a fridge yet, but it did the trick!
What hit me the most about this is the 'staff quarters' as if any of their current staff would want to continue to work for them and act like everything's normal while their whole family are outside in the apocalypse. These rich assholes better build a whole family wing for each staff member and their family if they expect anyone to follow them down there and then NOT murder them immediately.
this shit looks like the secret luxury basements I always make for my sims
Staff quarters?! The rich are wild.
17:00 it’s like we all KNEW they felt that way but… now we KNOW they feel that way
The way I'm watching this as inspiration for a future sims4 build...
I get the idea that if you are going to be stuck inside a concrete block underground for an unknown amount of time, you would want more than 5m2. If I am going to be cramming all the people I care about into one place, I would like to have more than one room to have some breathing space. Being able to have the space to pace would be nice. But that garage really got me. Why on earth would you need *cars* in the apocalypse? Many of them at that. If I could design a doomsday bunker, I might include a Kitchen if possible, to be able to heat the canned food we store. And if it was possible, some escapism would be nice, maybe I would take my favorite books or even movies with me. I have kids in my extended family, so I would want some place for them to sort of play. But a whiskey bar? Servants quarters? A fucking garage?! In contrast to those rich billionaires, I would also be trying to cram as many people I there as possible. So reference points for me are things like the annex where Anne Frank lived. Trying to make sure that the 20+ people I would try to fit in there didn’t end up murdering each other all cooped up like that. Which would make multiple bed rooms for different groups nice, one for each family perhaps. Just so people could have some sense of privacy and we wouldn’t have a civil war in the bunker. But those billionaires aren’t sharing. They are just trying to maintain their absurd life style even at the end of the world. They have their collections there because they are pretty and valuable in some arbitrary way. I could maybe even understand having a mini space for watching movies, just to help unwind, and distract the kids from all that is going on. At some point, just even being able to walk from one end of a hall to the other would probably save your sanity. Or having more than one book to read, once you have memorized your favorite book completely. But they are planning a mansion with so much unnecessary shit, just for like 4 people to enjoy.
this freaks me the fuck out tbh... like they're really preparing for the hunger games and we're obviously not gonna live either...
I feel like this would be a really good black mirror episode. Billionaires hire staff for apocalyse, realise money is useless, fight to death in underground bunker.
They'd all end up killing each other within a few months even if staff weren't around. Read about Biosphere 2, where the willing participants were all highly skilled, well-trained, extremely willing to cooperate, and still almost came to blows. One particiipant stated that she felt it was a victory that as many people left the place as entered it.
Fascinating stuff. I doubt many of these billionaires would last 2 days in the event of an apocalypse. For a start, where are they going to get their drugs? Unless they also have a store of them in their luxury bunker.
Can you bring back the small channel shoutout? I’ve been looking for more video essay channels! So thankful you put me onto Ashley Norton 💕
I found Ashley through here too and I’m obsessed with her 😭
love Ashley!! and yes I've been meaning to bring the segment back
lmfaoooo i love ashley her voice is so soothing
😅 this rly gave me so much anxiety, it's super dystopian and sounds like a book or movie... just totally not real.
This is so wild. Not me only worrying about my animals (and animals in general) in an event like this.
Basic concept: It's better to have "it" and not need it, than need it and not have it. Every family should have a survival kit!