A WIRED investigation just revealed Mark Zuckerberg’s years-long construction of a lavish, bunker-equipped sprawling compound in Hawaii.

The details:

The nearly completed Koolau Ranch spans 1,400 acres with over a dozen buildings, 30 bedrooms, off-grid power and food, helipads and underground bunkers with blast-resistant doors.

Costs eclipse $270 million — with reports of extreme NDAs muzzling hundreds of workers, lawsuits targeting landholders, and Zuckerberg reps allegedly clashing with press.

Political ties abound as the Chan/Zuckerberg donations flow, including hiring a former council chair and funding a former vice chair’s nonprofit.

While tech entrepreneurs have a history of doomsday prepping, Zuck sounds like he’s taking this Hawaiian hideaway to the next level.

  • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The few wealthy people I’ve met, not billionaires but $100+ millionaires, seem to have a limited skill set. They have “people” to do the work. I’ve always wondered how they would fair in a post-apocalyptic world?

    Personally I’d rather have those people that can MacGuyver a solution out of rubber bands and mud.

    All this to say that ol’ Zuck should probably hire some good ol’ boys/girls to do his work for him or he’s screwed.

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      11 months ago

      Even the people who have survival skills but have grown up in modern society would struggle to survive long term in a complete break down scenario.

      The people most likely to make it through?

      The residents of north sentential island and other people still living a subsistence life style.

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        11 months ago

        Yep. I think “The Road” by Cormack McCarthy is probably the closest to what a post-apocalyptic world would look like and that shit is bleak.

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      11 months ago

      10000% agreed. Sure you are rich enough to somehow live through. Along with other Richie’s. Who actually can hunt or knows electronics and wiring? Lol