You think they wouldn't give up wagyu beef and the idea of the US dollar for a shot at rebuilding society with a massive head start over the 99.9% percent of the population that don't have a bolt hole?

They already have massive influence over society with the added benefit of not having to rebuild 10,000 years of human progress so no I don’t think that makes any sense at all. That is cartoon supervillain nonsense. No real person thinks that way.

Elon musk is publically think in a way that no one with 10000 years of history would think.

unfortunately, people are flawed.

This article is interesting reading

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prep...

It won't be a "Mad Max"-style of apocalypse.

More like "Republic of Weimar" kind of apocalypse, this time with the rich opportunists flying to New Zealand instead of Casablanca or the Austrian Alps.

and they won't have any better at it.

the people wholl be in power then will still resemble the basics: violence, means of production and more violence.

which they know and are basically planning dystopian police states.

Because given the historical precedents, they know they will probably die peacefully in their beds before they have to pay any real consequences for their actions. Sure, a few dictators at the very end of their reign had to pay some consequences, but their cohorts? Soviet Russia, South America Banana republics, the aristocratic european families that enabled fascism and nazism...

Probably a few CEOs great grand-childs will probably have to write how they're very very sad that their long forgotten relatives have destroyed most of the planet, and how they're just so lucky to be among the few that are still living a luxurious life somewhere in the Solomon Islands.

Hey if it’s a Weimar style apocalypse we’ll all be billionaires.

"Underground bunkers" are actually underground cities. There are a bunch of them all over the world.

What.