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Njos2SQEZtPVRhH@piefed.social 11 hours ago
How will drones ever cross the moat?
fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I imagine the ultra-wealthy can afford their own personal surface-to-air missiles & their own personal army to man them.
0x0@infosec.pub 6 hours 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
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Both of those sound more expensive than drones.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 6 hours 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.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 hours 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.
Wilco@lemmy.zip 9 hours 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?