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Re:Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich by djrogers on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @12:23PM (#13483476)
> Every dollar you spend on your bunker is a dollar you don't spend helping the world keep out of the sort of trouble that would make your bunker necessary.

But it's also a dollar that's been spent - paying for school supplies for the daughter of the welder employed by the manufacturer, the medicine the truck driver's mom needs, and a few drinks at the bar for the retired vet who ran the backhoe for the bunker.

The economy isn't a closed system, so anything that gets the super rich to spend their money rather than stockpile it will benefit the economy as a whole.

Re:Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich by rstupek on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @02:07PM (#13484790)
Totally this, but also it's a misnomer that money can be "stockpiled" and not benefiting the economy.
Re:Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich by Apocryphon on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @02:10PM (#13484819)
This sounds like a variation of the broken window fallacy