A WIRED investigation just revealed Mark Zuckerberg’s years-long construction of a lavish, bunker-equipped sprawling compound in Hawaii.
The details:
The nearly completed Koolau Ranch spans 1,400 acres with over a dozen buildings, 30 bedrooms, off-grid power and food, helipads and underground bunkers with blast-resistant doors.
Costs eclipse $270 million — with reports of extreme NDAs muzzling hundreds of workers, lawsuits targeting landholders, and Zuckerberg reps allegedly clashing with press.
Political ties abound as the Chan/Zuckerberg donations flow, including hiring a former council chair and funding a former vice chair’s nonprofit.
While tech entrepreneurs have a history of doomsday prepping, Zuck sounds like he’s taking this Hawaiian hideaway to the next level.
I think you all are missing the upside here.
There’s every chance we can all chase him into the bunker and never let him out again.
I like how you think.
Have these fuckers not read World War Z? The rich won’t get to just hide in bunkers, they’ll get eaten just the same as the rest of us.
Fallout 3 tenpenny tower quest be like
Their wealth is almost entirely composed of equity, which topples if the world fails. All the cash they have to build these mansions is derived from this. The value of cash itself is derived from this. The only things of worth in a post-apocalyptic world are the tangible things they bought with cash while it was worth something. Shelter, food generation, defense… those are still worth something, along with more important things: physical skills and practical knowledge.
They will find themselves in their mansion-bunker, surrounded by people who they have paid to be there, in a world where the currency they use to pay them has failed. Do they not see what will happen? Even if their plan involves complete self-isolation, how do they plan on maintaining these massive properties and fixing things when they break? Perhaps they have a plan to close themselves off to some smaller, easier to maintain part of it. But then what is the whole point if all you have is solitary confinement? Even if it all works and they can survive it, they will eventually emerge into a world that has failed, where their wealth means little to nothing and the skills that built that wealth are as useful as ornamental testicles on a monster truck.
Why do they put their money toward projects like this, instead of towards ways to make the world more stable so that it doesn’t fail in the first place. If I had the immense wealth they have, which was completely contingent on the world and people that it stood upon, I would do everything I could to make sure the world would not fall apart. And if it wasn’t enough and it was failing still, I would spend even more until almost nothing was left. Building a fortress in a failing state is stupid, and history can tell you that with 5 minutes of reading.
In all their supposed intelligence, it seems they haven’t thought it through much… or I am missing something glaring.
Boston Dynamic dogs, Tesla Optimus, and so on. Why pay humans if you can automate them and have drones do all those tasks for you.
Maintenance.
End game is bots maintaining themselves, automated production lines for parts etc.
Factorio game be like
Yes but every system is bound to fail. If you depend on robots for maintenance and their auto maintenance breaks, you are in a lot of trouble.
It’s a system you don’t have to pay and won’t revolt. You still aren’t getting what we are saying.
In all their supposed intelligence, it seems they haven’t thought it through much
They are brainwashed by capitalism. Unable to perceive a world where money becomes worthless.
He probably had a room built and filled with bottle caps.
It’s almost as if he was trying to hide from prying eyes… And get some… What was it again… Privacy?
When people start fighting each other for bits of food because climate change has made it impossible to feed 8 billion of us, the rich will camp out in their bunkers until they can move to mars.
Doesn’t climate change means that sea level is raising and most of the islands and cities near water around the world will be gone in a few years?
Even accelerated by climate change the sea lavel rise is a slow process with about 1 meter per 100 years.
I thought it is sooner 😔
A live volcano chain is not somewhere I would build a bunker.
the probability of a zombie apocalypse AND a volcano eruption happening at the same time is probably not that high.
and as a location for a weekend house, hawaii has nice climate and is significantly closer to california than new zealand…
But it would make a great movie!
Another one became super villain
This vibes like a Bond villain
They’ve been using distopian cautionary tales as a how-to guide, maybe they’ve gotten into action movies and thought “hey, that guy is just like me! Maybe I need a giant compound to keep me safe from government agents and heroes trying to give me my just desserts”
Gentlemen, welcome to my Hawaiian island retreat lair.
Y’all need to start reading my boy Rushkoff:
https://rushkoff.com/books/survival-of-the-richest-escape-fantasies-of-the-tech-billionaires/
This sounds worth a read what is his reputation like as an author?
with plans for a huge underground bunker
The future was revealed
Got through 1/3 of the article. It feel artificially lengthened and information is scattered to be repeated a few paragraphs later. Felt like reading the story of an old man who keeps telling the same story over and over.
I wonder how Oprah’s compares? Her’s is so large she was able to get access to a small road that cut across an island closed to the public.
A bit hyperbolic there. The road didn’t cut across an island; it went from Ulupalakua to Kihei; nearly a straight line that cut out about 30 miles of travelling. It was voted closed because idiots who lived upcountry didnt want any tourists from Kihei driving into their area. What it did was punish those who worked in the resorts but couldnt afford to live nearby. Oprah bought the road because it was offered to her when the residents voted it closed.
Tl;dr: Oprah is a piece of shit but Kula residents are bigger pieces of shit
The price of a guilty conscience?
So he has about 30 people including himself he actually cares about.
He does not have 30 friends.
