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Those bunkers are already defended. Think of them less as a schizo bug-out bunker and more of the castles of the new feudalism.

Their purpose is solely to protect the land/the lord from people with ideas such as yours following the collapse of the empire.


Even castles have been stormed.


By large armies of trained soldiers who invariably suffered disproportionate casualties. Fortifications are very effective for this specific application.


Dozers would be very easy to armor up and teleoperate. Send 10 just for good measure.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.


Salt the land and wait for the rations to run out.


The billionaire with a doomsday bunker probably has enough rations to outlast you. It's best not to wait until the doomsday bunker stage to do something about the situation.


That's true. However, the smarter(esque) billionaires built their doomsday prepper bunkers in NZ, AU, Hawaii, and probably elsewhere secret and far away from most civilization they want to avoid.


Breathing is nice.


best bring out the bunker busters then


You have a lot of those in the back of the garage, do you?


> The 1st one will continue to be true in this dystopian AI art future, the other not so much.

No it won’t, you’ll be too busy trying to survive off of what pittance is left for you to have any time to waste on leisure activities.


Housewife to an AI CEO might be a good gig, if you can take the beatings.


I’d love to, unfortunately there’s no other fields for me to run off to that are going pay remotely close to middle class money.

If I could find something that even pays half of what I made as a developer, I’d consider it.


> What an irritating and contemptible individual.

That’s just a majority of people in the industry. If there any reason to leave, that’s it.


True, but the degree to which they are so is proportional to the power and wealth they have.


You simply lack the organization, resolve, and popular support.


> I'm not going to give too much more detail here. Obviously not STEM but nothing fluffy.

Which letter? From my (probably mistaken) perspective

S usually requires a PhD to get into the field and if you get that far, it’s a battle for a handful of poorly paid positions waiting for you

T doesn’t need too much explanation here. Not great right now

E alright, but seems to be pretty sparse. A lot of actual engineering positions seem to have been outsourced long ago. Might also be hard to compete with just an undergrad.

M probably the most valuable right now IMO. Wide range of jobs you could have available, often decent if not high paying, but outside of those (if you can get them) you might as well be a philosopher.

The STEM push seemed to be a grift through and through.


> That's probably why "old money" doesn't like "new money". New money is crass, loud, and obnoxious. Old money knows that it's best to keep to the shadows, at least until one of their idiot kids ruins it.

I suspect that’s why I’ve seen more serious monarchists than I ever have before.


Eh, they’ll strip everything else from you, don’t let them take your pride.


Little do most people realize that they’ve already taken that; as they spend more of their life with literal strangers working for and to advance not just others, but even what may as well be gods in far off places and in sky scraper mount olympuses, living decadent lives off the work and ruin of others, who trade their time in life and the life and experiences of their children, to be raised by regime goons instead of their own parents or at least their mother who is also serving another man/person.


One of the deepest statements i've read on hn!


> So now the monopolies are just hiring away all of the people they want from the startup and leaving the company as a shell of its former self

I thought they were dumping everyone at the moment. Unless you’re an AI researcher.


And notice who gets hired…

That means if there are 10 developer - 7 working on the product and 3 working on the fundamental AI problem, those 7 aren’t going to be left (the company didn’t want the product anyway) and the 3 researchers are going to be hired.

Something similar happened with Google and Windsurf. So who benefited from the anti acquisition mood of the previous FTC? Not most of the employees who could have made more just working for a public company in the first place and not even the investors.

Google accomplished the same thing with less red tape and didn’t have to hire the people they didn’t want.


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