It’s a sign that at least some of the ultra-rich are anxious about global events and are making contingency plans for the Big One — whatever form that may take.
The feeling is very much in the air. Architectural Digest named “luxury bunkers” one of the real estate trends of 2023, and a finely appointed redoubt figured prominently in the recent Netflix thriller Leave the World Behind.
Bradley Garrett said the most elaborate bunker he found while researching his book (Bunker: Building for the End Times) is the Survival Condo, located in a former missile silo in Kansas. Built around 2010 by a property developer who used to work for the U.S. Department of Defence, this “nuclear-hardened” structure features walls up to 2¾ metres thick and can house between 36 and 75 people.
In addition to providing each unit with a five-year supply of “freeze-dried and dehydrated survival food,” the complex contains an indoor pool, a classroom, a library and two floors of hydroponic gardens to “provide fresh produce.” It also has filtered air and water supplies. Units go for between $1.5 million and $3 million.
At max we get 100ish years. Wtf does it matter if you survive in a bunker at 70 years old… If the world becomes a place where you need a bunker… Just let it go.
That’s 40 years of robots improving, 40 years of resource gathering, 40 years of ai maturing. Anything can happen in that time.
that assumes that the infrastructure that improves robots/ai and gathers resources remains functional.
Everything is an assumption at this point including environmental collapse so don’t try to hold me to a standard you don’t even hold yourself.