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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours 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?

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 5 points 6 hours ago
[-] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 20 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

There's a few that come close. This situation is about as bad as the more milquetoast vault outcomes: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_known_Vaults

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 hours ago

I'd say it's pretty middling once you remove bioweapons from the list for sake of realistic comparison. Pretty sure we don't have FEV yet.

[-] kalkulat@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours 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?

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago

Gonna be a tough sell getting someone to wear one of those.

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Money-obsessed persons are not capable of understanding concepts other than money.

[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 19 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] matthurtme@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago
[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 10 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours 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.

[-] matthurtme@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

Cement in the air vents and they'll asphyxiate

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 points 14 hours ago

This was their last chance to avoid paying taxes. The only hope for them now is to pay taxes. Just like the rest of us.

[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 29 points 20 hours 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.

[-] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago

Any plan or strategy that fails to take account of psychology is poorly planned

[-] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

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

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 15 points 19 hours 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.org 7 points 11 hours 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.

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Also, locking yourself in the bunker isn’t gonna go well when the company who built it has the map of all the ones in the neighborhood and can be paid or robbed.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 13 hours ago

This isn't all that different than my new Multi-Use neighborhood problems. Many of the people in the big houses are entitled POS who feel they are above the rules (for the most part, they are). Many in the smallest houses/rentals dgaf about the rules because their chances of getting in actual trouble are slim.

We don't have a stand your ground here tho, just getting away with shooting the contractor is pretty fucking insane.

[-] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 49 points 1 day ago

Can we stage a fake crisis so they all flee to their bunkers, then we all lock them inside?

[-] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

This is sort of the premis of the book "the future" by Naomi Alderman

[-] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 1 points 2 hours ago

Oh interesting I'll have to give that a look.

[-] AAA@feddit.org 3 points 9 hours ago

Unfortunately for us we have some very real crisis in the pipeline!

[-] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 1 points 2 hours ago

We do and we could fix it, if these fuckers just disappeared.

[-] matthurtme@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago
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