Re:How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apoc...
by GW150914 on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @01:52PM
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The funny thing is really that they’ll hoard resources and power, but all of their power will mean nothing. A warlord isn’t some clever, greedy dick, it’s the guy who murders that dick and takes over his hoard. If you really want to prepare for an apocalypse, be the head of one of these idiots’ private armies. When it falls apart, you casually blow his brains out and take over.
Re:How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apoc...
by olefoo on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @02:54PM
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Keeping a private army fed, equipped and healthy is a hard problem; especially if you cannot rely on the large scale infrastructure systems that provide all of the advanced technology, effective medical care and civil order we take for granted.
What you are describing is a fantasy that would collapse with the first cholera outbreak.
But if these fools think that that they will be able to keep their power and influence by doing the same things that made them wealthy they will be an amusing and schadenfreude inducing sideshow that most people will barely notice because they're too busy figuring out how to beat the heat.
The way to survive the transitions we are facing now is not to use today's wealth and influence to make yourself a warlord of a post-apocalyptic desert. It's to build cooperative societies that can make deserts bloom in difficult places and provide shelter from the storms to come. You cannot expect to maintain effective technologically adept societies by fear and coercion. You must be able to offer hope and inspiration if you want assistance of any level of cognitive complexity.