[water-data-dude]

If things ever get bad enough that the wealthy need underground nuclear bunkers, the underground nuclear bunkers aren't going to be enough to protect them. The ordinary people who did the electrical, plumbing, security, etc. know where you are, and no level of security will protect you from an angry mob with nothing to lose.

[graphime]

> The ordinary people who did the electrical, plumbing, security, etc. know where you are, and no level of security will protect you from an angry mob with nothing to lose.

Governments around the world already keep many locations/facilities secret and hidden from the public.

They will simply arrest you, or worse, just kill you.

What’s your solution to that?

[flohofwoe]

> Governments around the world already keep many locations/facilities secret and hidden from the public.

Those cold war bunkers only had one purpose: to keep high ranking government and military peeps alive just long enough (up to 2 weeks or so) to make sure that mutual destruction is actually 'assured'. They were not meant as some sort of cradle of a new civilization or as a safe haven to survive a nuclear war (because there would be no place to return to anyway).

[water-data-dude]

I'm talking about the wealthy building private end of the world bunkers

[everyone]

Have you thought this through fully? In that case who'se supposed to be doing the arresting and killing? -- more ordinary people.

Look at what happened to Ceaușescu for example. He went from being confident in his rule to dead 24 hours later.

[jappgar]

Robots. That's why they're obsessed with AI and robotics.

[jmye]

Yes, ordinary people have famously never killed tens of millions of civilians/undesirables at the orders of the government. Great point.

[hedora]

I once saw a news article with interviews of anonymous bunker tenders; essentially, there is a small industry of former special ops folks that are paid to live in the bunker and maintain it.

The main point they made during the interviews: If things ever get bad enough for the owner to want to move into the bunker, the #1 priority of the guards will be to neutralize the owner. They worked out detailed contingency plans while twiddling there thumbs and rotating cans of caviar.

It turns out you cannot eat electronic money that’s sitting in the middle of a bank’s bombed out business continuity vault.

[senordevnyc]

Sounds incredibly fake. The type of people you're talking about don't do anonymous interviews, and they wouldn't talk about this if they did.

But hey, I enjoy fake AI content on social media sometimes too!

[stevenpetryk]

automated war machines are plenty to stop an angry mob imo.

[esseph]

Now imagine an angry mob with automated war machines

[CamperBob2]

Why do you think they're trying to regulate 3D printers and CNC machines all of a sudden?

For that matter, what did you think gun control was for, exactly?

[organsnyder]

Maybe in some dystopian future. But right now there are still plenty of humans in the loop for supporting those machines.

[everyone]

Yeah like the elites would have any clue how they operate, like any tech.

[skinfaxi]

The Mexican cartels have kidnapped people and forced them to build telephony infra for them.

[olmo23]

What about drones though

[LearnYouALisp]

Buster-style microwave backpacks