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.

  • Zrybew@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    First of all, bravo to the bunker building industry, to manage to sell doomsday preping to all these rich folks.

    Now, from a practical standpoint, how cool it’s to have $300m laying around for your little hobby? Because that’s what this is, a hobby.

    If society collapse, that Shit may buy them a couple of years tops, of a very miserable life.

    They won’t Fuck scape to Mars or to a bunker. We’ll eventually eat the rich like a fucking French revolution and spend few generations cleaning the mess.

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      1 year ago

      I see it as my duty to fart into every billionaire bunker air intake I come across.

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        1 year ago

        If my fart you mean pump carbon monoxide then im with you, that or mustard gas.

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      1 year ago

      Dude’s fucking a significant chunk of Hawaii for his hobby.