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.

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    1 year ago

    These fuckers are building this world to their liking with there social shit and whatever else. And guess who is the first to run from there own creation. These fucking asscocks are the biggest fucking cowards there are.

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    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.

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    These rich fuckers see the writing on the wall, and seriously are using their means expecting to beat societal collapse. Fucked up.

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    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.

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    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.

    • danielbln@lemmy.world
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      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.

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            11 months ago

            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.

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              11 months ago

              It’s a system you don’t have to pay and won’t revolt. You still aren’t getting what we are saying.

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      11 months ago

      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.

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    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.

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      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”

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    “And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”

    Masque of the Red Death

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      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…

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    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.

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    It’s almost as if he was trying to hide from prying eyes… And get some… What was it again… Privacy?

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    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.

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      11 months ago

      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?