• ProdigalFrog
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    1 day ago

    All I can think of is a TED talk I saw where the speaker had given some presentation to a bunch of billionaires and had some q&a, and one of them who had built a bunker for themselves asked him how they could prevent their security team from turning on them in the bunker.

    The TED talk guy responded “Be kind to them?”

    And the Billionaire said “But where does that end?”

    I’ll try to find it so I can link it.

    EDIT: Found it!

    • @Zahille7@lemmy.world
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      271 day ago

      I don’t think it was a ted talk, I’m pretty sure it was a seminar put on specifically by the billionaire class asking this guy how best to navigate societal collapse with their vast amount of resources.

      This I believe was one of the exchanges at that event.

      • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        824 hours ago

        And it’s funny because the answer is build an egalitarian compound where your share of the labor is the funding. That’s it. If the guards see it as how they contribute to a shared community then they’re not going to turn on their boss

      • @scarabine@lemmynsfw.com
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        361 day ago

        What’s incredible to me is that they don’t realize that societal collapse will render their resources more or less worthless. Their options are the same as everyone else’s: get a bug out plan, be ready to abandon all belongings, etc. What are you planning to do to keep your bunkers stocked past the first month? How will you pay your security if your banks are gone or your currency is worthless?

        • @Zahille7@lemmy.world
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          261 day ago

          Exactly. These people don’t think rationally. They truly believe they’ll have a group of sycophants who will do anything they say because they had them all this time before.

          When shit hits the fan, you need to be the only one with the keys to the shock collars. You need to basically become Batman.

      • ProdigalFrog
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        14 hours ago

        You’re right, though I was first introduced to the story from the guy telling it at a TED talk. I phrased it poorly.

    • kronisk
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      131 day ago

      The guy is called Douglas Rushkoff and he wrote a book on the subject called “Survival of the Richest: Escape fantasies of the Tech Billionaires”.

    • enkers
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      151 day ago

      EDIT: Found it!

      Wow, that was actually an extremely insightful conversation. Thank you for going out of your way to share it!