Re:Who gets to own the West?
by jshaqaw on Saturday June 22, 2019 @09:15AM
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I am amused by the comment that owning a private landholding will protect them should we hit a time of political and climate driven unrest. Yeah - a paper land deed will definitely stave off the masses hordes in the event of a desperate apocalypse. This is the right wing paranoid delusional equivalent of the Silicon Valley billionaires who dream of never dying by uploading their brains into computers circling Mars.
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You just grant right of abode to a number of young men that know how to handle weapons. They'll be very motivated to defend it - and you! - from the hordes, especially given their families are residing there too.
There, you just reinstated feudalism, with barely any extra steps.
Why would the people you hire care what you think once society has collapsed to the point where money and contracts are worthless?
Exactly. The praetorian guard become the real emperor of Rome or the Shogun exiles the emperor to play ceremonial roles in Kyoto. Except in this case without the need to maintain a popular figure of divine mandate for public purposes, the guards just shoot the former billionaires. In the end there is no hedge against death or total societal breakdown no matter how rich you are.
Re:Who gets to own the West?
by lotsofpulp on Saturday June 22, 2019 @10:16AM
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This is mitigation up until total collapse.
> This is the right wing paranoid delusional equivalent of the Silicon Valley billionaires who dream of never dying by uploading their brains into computers circling Mars.
I hope this isn't a real thing.