SURVIVALISTS ARE THE WORST OF US

Choose to thrive instead

There’s a trend among billionaires; elaborate, sprawling survivalist bunkers. I don’t know if it’s being in an high-voltage haze 24/7, or the weird culture bubble we call Silicon Valley, but Open AI CEO Sam Altman is a dedicated bunker boy.

“I try not to think about it too much, but I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.”

Then there’s the founder of Facebook, the ubiquitous and intrusive social wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg. The Guardian notes “Zuckerberg has spent almost a decade buying up land in Hawaii for the construction — now well under way — of a sprawling, 1,400-acre compound of mansions, treehouses and tunnels. The crown jewel of the $270m project is a 5,000-sq-ft underground shelter with its own energy and food supplies and what appears to be a blast-resistant door.”

Maybe it’s lab-created viral bugs, and war, or alien visitors, but these billionaires are determined to survive it.

in a report on CNN, the network examined the global trend of luxury bunkering. “If you prefer to spend the end of days solo, or at least with hand-selected family and friends, you may prefer to consider The Oppidum in the Czech Republic, which…