The extremely wealthy are planning to transcend humanity

[ProfessorPlum]

using their vast wealth accumulation as both the cause of future crises and the means of "escape".

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.

This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader?

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”.

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[Turbineguy]

1. They don't grasp the idea

that you should die before the crematoriums and gravediggers stop.

Not afterwards.

[bloom]

2. I've been expecting that that would be the way many billionaires expect to deal with various crises

But also - yeah - why would anyone be concerned about protecting someone else - instead of themselves - unless they also could figure they benefitted? Unless they too would be protected from whatever disasters? Etc.

[TheRealNorth]

3. And if the disaster lasts longer than they expected....

They will turn on each other like a bunch of "Survivor" contestants. Hell,, they may do so anyway just so that they can be the "alpha dog" of the post-apocalyptic world.

[Carlitos Brigante]

4. And here they are on video openly discussing it:

[ProfessorPlum]

6. LOL, hilarious. And sad.

[harumph]

5. Whatever, I'll enjoy the hunt.

[nuxvomica]

7. I wrote a sci-fi story about this

When a predictable global cataclysm wipes out all life on earth, a thousand billionaires escape on a spaceflight to a wormhole near Saturn, where they would be ultimately transported to a distant earth-like planet, aided by thousands of android servants who were programmed not to interfere with the humans' interactions, because "freedom". The story is told by the last surviving billionaire who details how a fight between a Russian oligarch and a Saudi prince escalated through fear and revenge to a series of killings leaving only one billionaire left. And of course the androids couldn't stop it from happening. As the last survivor ponders his future, he wonders whether any of the billionaires who stayed in underground bunkers with android servants, same programming, ever survived. The point being their wealth and freedom, combined with their sociopathic tendencies, sealed their fates.