c/collapse · by fake_meows@sopuli.xyz · 68d

Apocalypse Bunker Fails as Wealthy Residents Turn on Each Other

https://futurism.com/future-society/apocalypse-compound-fails-wealthy-residents-turn-on-each-other

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 68d (3 replies)

Only a third of the individual properties — which can be bought for up to $55,000 plus rent and service fees — are occupied at the moment, according to the WSJ. However, altercations and even lawsuits are starting to rack up, long before owners are forced to take shelter in case of an actual “extinction event.”

Disputes are piling up, per the newspaper, from lawsuits over filled septic systems to complaints over off-leash dogs biting residents. During one particularly hairy incident, a man who moved into one of the units with his wife, his daughter, and her four children, pulled a gun on a Vivos contractor who had pulled up with a front-end loader to his bunker.

The resident eventually shot the contractor, injuring him. However, South Dakota’s stand-your-ground law led to a grand jury declining to indict him.

This doesn't sound like wealthy people....

Sounds like nutjobs who sold their real house and moved to a compound.

fake_meows@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 68d (1 reply)

The $55,000 is a 99 year lease of the bunker, but it doesn't come built out and ready to inhabit. You still have to create the layout and furnish it.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 68d

And there's at least one unit with 7 people jammed into it...

And that guy fucking shot someone

It's not like they have another home somewhere, most likely they sold everything they owned to move there.

Those are not millionaires, they're nutjobs almost guaranteed to be in massive credit card debt, because they think society will collapse before they have to pay it.

On a side note:

99 year lease apocalypse bunkers is a wild idea, like if the apocalypse happens in 2035, are they kicking people's grandkids out 89 years into the apocalypse?

Do they expect people to keep paying during the apocalypse?

How don't they see the bunkers turning on each other a generation in when some already have 7 people living in a single unit?

Like...

These communities are going to be the worst places to ride out an apocalypse, because you're surrounding by crazy people almost guaranteed to be armed to the teeth with bad critical thinking skills.

If you want to be safe after societal collapse, you need to either be alone or with a very small group of handpicked people. A gated community of strangers would go madmax almost immediately, and everyone assumes they'll be the warlord taking command.

It's a recipe for disaster.

Botzo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 67d

It is a mix, but the permanent residents are definitely not extremely wealthy.

This place is really a time share shithole where the loonies get to larp the prepper life.

Things they missed:

there's a couple dozen permanent residents at the most.
it's an active cattle ranch too. You might wake up to cattle on your roof.
it's fully off grid, you have to build your own septic and electric. They have an aquifer and you can pay to have water run to your bunker.
your lease gets you a bunker. God only knows what condition it's actually in and what former army munitions catastrophes have happened in it.
the family that owns the surrounding property with the easement for access is internally feuding and hostile to residents (they're also the cattle ranchers).
trash is taken to a "burn bunker" where yes, they burn the trash in one of the bunkers.
nothing is permitted or inspected. And no self-respecting crew wants these jobs in the middle of nowhere to build non-standard stuff. These are the drunks and the swindlers that have burned every bridge on their way out. Their work is shoddy and substandard when you can get them to show up. And your 3 month build out might be several years in the building. And you won't get your money back once you pay up front. And a contractor might get you (and himself) killed on the way back from your night drinking hard enough to get kicked out of the bar.
you can be evicted, and might not have any recourse to recoup the money you put into building it out.
the "improvements" are laughable. They used former railroad fill on the streets. It is full of shit that will blow your tires out.
no guarantee that an ambulance or firetruck will show up, and someone has to let them through the gate

Yes, I know a bunker owner. And yes, I have visited.

InevitableWaffles@midwest.social · 7 pts · 67d

Who could have guessed that a bunch of sociopathic rich people would be bad neighbors?

RockBottom@feddit.org · 5 pts · 68d

Nationalists in a nutshell.

Terrapinjoe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 68d

Read the 1987 novel Swan Song. One of the character's arcs starts in a very similar situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Song_(McCammon_novel)

QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 68d

There's a Netflix show about this. XD

ICastFist@programming.dev · 1 pts · 67d

Since they're building underground bunkers, we might as well throw them inside ASAP and make them useful for society once in their pathetic lives, simulate all sorts of dumb things in their containers, just like Fallout

bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 68d (2 replies)

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FatVegan@leminal.space · 5 pts · 68d (1 reply)

Why throw shade at poor people?

bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 67d

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