Investors of a purportedly "five-star" bunker in rural South Dakota, called Vivos xPoint, are already at each others' throats.
  • nosuchanon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    2 days ago

    Isn’t this exactly the premise for some of the Vaults in Fallout? Social experiments that lead to societal issues?

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    2 days ago

    “During one particularly hairy incident, a man who moved into one of the units with his wife, his daughter, and her four children, pulled a gun on a Vivos contractor who had pulled up with a front-end loader to his bunker. The resident eventually shot the contractor, injuring him. However, South Dakota’s stand-your-ground law led to a grand jury declining to indict him.”

    What’s that thing about empires falling after 250 years traditionally?

  • kalkulat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    And then there’s the security question … what’s to stop their ‘guards’ from realizing that they could be living securely -without- the boss?

    • sunbytes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Why do you think they’re so interested in AI powered robot dogs?

      Obviously they have their own weaknesses but it’s going to help prevent human-level coups.

      Also psych AI to watch facial movements to check for disloyalty, (presumably at some point).

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I think shock collars was the last answer I heard from billionaires. I don’t think they think things through all the way.

  • Avicenna@programming.devEnglish
    20·
    2 days ago

    well ofcourse they would, they tend to all think that they are the main characters and everyone else is just an NPC

  • oortjunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    34·
    2 days ago

    These fucks are GROUND ZERO for humanity’s collective dysfunction. They really think concentrating their filth in a fucking bunker isn’t going to brew the literal worst toxic behavior ever witnessed?

    Have at it in my opinion. Lock em in and melt the keys.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Like most of their ideas the bunker strategy is idiotic because it completely fails to take into account the psychology of the individual. They used to flying around all over the planet and experiencing the best in life, for the most part they’ve lived this life since before they knew what their own fingers were for because they were born into wealth, these people are not going to do well in a tiny underground facility.

      The people who would do the best in the bunker are the people they are in the bunker to hide away from.

      • in_the_dark_forest@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 days ago

        The only smart people in tgis are the ones selling rhe bunkers. They charge lots of money for a promise that is not even fully complete as described in the article. In the unlikely event of an actual apocalypse, many will not even rech the bunker in the first place and if somyhing is not ready or woking as it shouls there is nobody left to prosecute.

      • flying_sheep@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Vivos does claim that they’re paying psychologists among other experts. I wonder how well.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 days ago

    If this is really the best of humanity that will weather the storm, we could be doomed after all.

    Why do people keep saying or assuming that these are the best of humanity? These literally are the leeches of humanity, the narcissistic antisocial hoarders who think they’re the cream of the crop and obviously the only ones deserving of survival of the disaster they helped create.

    Fuck these people, I hope they all die in a fire or something, humanity will be off better

    • Zink@programming.devEnglish
      241·
      3 days ago

      It is one of the worst parts of US culture and one of the greatest accomplishments of capitalists’ propaganda that we generally see the rich as noble and admirable while the poor are evil and disgusting.

      Not to be all US-centric about it, but that’s where I live and I think this place’s reputation speaks for itself.

    • matthurtme@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      If only we could get all those pedophile fascists into those bunkers sooner and cut them off from all outside contact.

    • Tigeroovy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I hope they all get sealed in their bunkers from the outside and go insane trapped in the tomb they’ve created.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 days ago

        What is a residential cruise ship?

        Think of condos, but on a ship.

        People make it their permanent home, and the ship wanders the world’s oceans based (theoratically) on votes from the passenger/owners as to where to go next.

        The residents tend to be a mix of remote workers, digital nomads and retirees.

        • modus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 days ago

          I just did a quick search. $100k to own the cabin + $2k per person per month for one example. Seems like a good way for some to blow their money during their golden years. Sell the house and head out to sea to die.

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Not surprised, they haven’t heard the word “no” or had to wait for their turn for a very long time

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    What can be done to prevent those living in bunkers like this from ever coming back out alive?

    • Avicenna@programming.devEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I am ok if they just never come out even if they don’t have to die. Like lets all pretend the world is about to end then we will tell them 100 years later.

  • reluctant_squidd@lemmy.caEnglish
    198·
    3 days ago

    Who would have thought confining some of the most self-centred, egotistical, greedy and morally flexible people together in a living situation might not work out.

    Shocker…

  • moondoggie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    These aren’t “the wealthy” - most of these are priced at $50k-75k. That’s prepper nutjob price ranges and it’s no surprise that they’re shooting people with front end loaders since obviously it’s the government disguised as the company workers, coming to dig them out and take their guns.

    The people who are actually wealthy have the means to not live in a hole in South Dakota surrounded by other people in their own holes. Their hole in the ground will be somewhere much less advertised.

  • artifex@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    These people are such morons. It would take about 2 minutes of an intro level Anthropology class to learn that for like 95% of human history we lived in small groups like this — so we’re definitely able to do it — but they only worked because they were (mostly) egalitarian. They absolutely don’t work when group members consistently value themselves over the group.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      They weren’t necessarily egalitarian, but they all involved a sense of duty to the community the ability to reinvent the structure of the community, and the freedom to leave. They were also smaller than this. But yeah this is a bunch of people who don’t understand how to function in a community like this.

      Also I’m not certain why these people are already living in the bunkers

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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        2 days ago

        They are so disconnected from reality they think the world has already ended. Evidence of this would be the minor pushback to things like AI they are starting to experience.

        A bunch of them went and hid in their bunkers when 9/11 happened. Obviously a pretty bad thing to happen but hardly the end of the world. Sadly they came out about 2 days later because they got bored.

      • artifex@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Yep, though we know of bands of hundreds of people who persisted for a long time and at least a few examples of proto-cities with thousands and a much less pronounced division of labor (or at much less pronounced evidence of the trappings that tend to go along with things like kings and a class system). The prevailing assumption right now is that they must have been working more “together” than not.