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.

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.

It's telling that one of these billionaires was the type to kill a worker trying to do their job near his property. And "stand your ground" laws were created by and for gun nuts who want to murder someone. Change my mind...

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.

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

Have these guys ever considered that the survivors outside the bunkers might just weld the bunker doors shut whilst those inside watch them do it on closed circuit television?

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.

Relying on a company to support you in an apocalypse event is outrageous amounts of cope

Not a television guy, but if you convinced these jackoffs the world was ending, forcing them to flee to their bunker commune, o'd watch a reality tv show of them in the bunker going lord of the flies on each other.

Never understood these bunkers in modern times.

If TSHTF so hard that someone truly needs to bunker up for months on end civilization as we know it will likely be at an end. No coming back from it. Congrats, you survived to enjoy the death of everything we know. Heck knows they didn’t store a hoard of raw materials, tools, physical books full of knowledge, farm implements, seeds, and have ready access to individuals with year 1895 level skills to make it all work. They only thought of themselves and stored some food, lots of booze, and a little medicine, figuring they could jet off to some safe haven when it was convenient.

If it were even the 1950s I think there would still be enough of a reservoir of local material and knowledge, and everything was mostly manually skilled labor to create, so bunkering could have worked out. But not today. Global supply chains, relocated resource extraction and manufacturing, and everything computerized has virtually guaranteed the impossibility of bootstrapping modern civilization should it fail.

They’re just as dead, but they get to enjoy roving starving humans trying to kill them over whatever's left.

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.

Yeah that tracks.

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

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

Really, the most disconnected from humanity unlikable people aren’t getting along? Weird.

Ew imagine having to share a bunker with a bunch of stanky, ugly, fat pedophiles...

Crazy to think the best place to be in a major crisis is to stay put with your family and the local people you have common ground with rather than randos who just try to solve their problems with isolated wealth, huh?

(There's nuance to that, of course. If everyone in your town has to evacuate, go with them.)

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

Only a third of the individual properties — which can be bought for up to $55,000 plus rent and service fees — are occupied at the moment, according to the WSJ.

Yeah no, this is not a place for wealthy people. Fucking clickbait title.

Look at Fallout series for more inspiration about what might happen

[off topic?]

"Children Of Strife" by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

It's the last book in a series, but can be read as a stand alone.

A group of trillionaires travel to a distant planet in hopes of terraforming it.

Things don't go as planned...

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

"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?

The worker should've watched The 100 or Fall Out, plenty of warnings there. /s

Let them fight.