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Re:Survival of the Richest (2018) by pjc50 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @07:51AM (#20756435)
This is classic Bond-villain material. The difference from today is that back then people more readily recognised it as villainy, and the "event" would have been assumed to be nuclear war.

What it's more likely to look like today is Venezuela.

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Re:Survival of the Richest (2018) by seren on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @09:23AM (#20756889)
You're correct there were more bunker built 50 years ago than today.

I am not sure about the whole survivalist/bunker mentality, if everything goes down in flame, at most the bunker will only give you a few months respite, assuming you are not replaced by your head of security first.

If you are a billionaire today, it would still be better to be a millionaire in a organized society in 50 years, that being the guy with the code for the fridge in a mad max society, so I am not even sure that rationally it is a good decision to have a bunker built.

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