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• Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How will vigilantes ever be able to catch these oligarchs at their office if they have moats around their house.

  Honestly, wouldnt it be cheaper to just not be evil?

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• fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I got a trebuchet for sale.

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• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I imagine the ultra-wealthy can afford their own personal surface-to-air missiles & their own personal army to man them.

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  • 0x0@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.

    It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust

    I tried to reason with them. I made pro-social arguments for partnership and solidarity as the best approaches to our collective, long-term challenges. The way to get your guards to exhibit loyalty in the future was to treat them like friends right now, I explained. Don’t just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships. They rolled their eyes at what must have sounded to them like hippy philosophy.

    www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/0 4/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

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    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Installing special combination locks to keep the food secure and the. Locking yourself in a bunker with those people sounds like an excellent way to spend the last ten minutes of your life having your fingernails slowly pulled off.

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  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Both of those sound more expensive than drones.

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    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ok but I think this guy means that we commoners could cross their strongholds with drones. And I mean the wealthy could defend themselves against our paltry drones with surface-to air missiles & their own personal armoes.

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      • CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They surely could.

        And we could fling stuff over the walls to make sure they don’t get a minute of quiet or more than a week with un-scorched grass.

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