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   Judge Dread :verified: (judgedread@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 04:10:30 JST Judge Dread :verified:
   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”.
   
   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.
   
   https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff
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     victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 04:22:31 JST victor

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     @judgedread What is the point of "surviving the apocalypse" if you're all alone mentally and afraid of everyone around you? No community, no trust, but those are 99% of the point of being alive in the first place. I guess psychopaths wouldn't understand.