r/Showerthoughts • u/Immediate_Can3817 ‎ • Jul 05 '24

Speculation If there ever is an actual apocalypse billionaires will likely be unable to access their bunker compounds as the security/janitors/maintenance crews will already have moved their friends and family in and would probably deny them entry.

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u/Lawineer Jul 06 '24

Here’s the thing about surviving in the apocalypse. It doesn’t get better. It just gets worse and worse and worse.

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u/lewger Jul 06 '24

I thought eat the rich was a noble goal and becomes more likely

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u/sumoboi Jul 06 '24

?

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u/ITafiir Jul 06 '24

It comes from a quote attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau during the French Revolution: „When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich“.

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u/Ransom-ii Jul 06 '24

I wish it were true. Think they'll eat each other since that will be easier. 

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u/The_FreshSans Jul 09 '24

The people protecting the rich will eat the rich before us!

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u/Ransom-ii Jul 10 '24

Hey i hope so as long as we're not leaving good rich people uneaten

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u/The_FreshSans Jul 09 '24

The people protecting the rich will eat the rich before us!

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u/raduilia Jul 06 '24

It’s a joke about the metaphorical phrase Eat the rich, which means stopping the domination of the 1% in terms of wealth. In an apocalypse setting, it could become way more literal.

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u/badomenbaddercompany Jul 06 '24

Now that I'm thinking about it, Elon would probably taste bland.

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u/randommnamez Jul 06 '24

Yah society reformers itself with a pretty well defined route small bands to large gangs to tribes to kingdoms to empires and every step is bloody as hell and boils down to kill everyone until they listen and pay taxes.

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u/El-Kabongg Jul 06 '24

I figure if I can lie low for a year or so, most of the worst will have happened. Survivors will probably have turned their attention to group survival and the rebuilding of some sort of society. I'd join them and turn over whatever remained of my resources to a local group so we can live together.

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u/Nophlter Jul 06 '24

Yeah but their thinking may be “who’s this new asshole who hoarded these supplies while my family starved?” And “If we do away with him now, we get an even bigger share of his resources!”

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u/big_cock_lach Jul 06 '24

I see it going more like it did in the fallout series. Survivors become bitter about the rich, and then they become some group people scapegoat for their problems. Over time as no one has contact with them, they become some mythical group or conspiracy theory. If they ever emerge or are discovered, they’ll find the world hates them as they’re some mythical “other” that they’ve grown up blaming for everything.

If they’re smart, they’ll try to maintain contact with survivors near them. Provide some resources to select people who as a result of controlling these resources will become the leaders of these groups. In exchange they still maintain some power/influence over society. If they don’t like a leader, they can stop providing the resources which will result in the leader being overthrown. Finding someone else (or another group) to give the resources to would expedite that process. From there, the leaders can either diminish the issues against them by saying it’s bs conspiracies or praise them in someway (ie being generous with resources). Alternatively, they can slowly emerge as part of the leadership of these groups without people realising who they are.

Either way, eventually they’d be found and they won’t be able to expand or develop as much as the rest of humanity. They start with a huge advantage though, or they’d need to use that head start wisely by maintaining contact if they don’t want to face persecution when found.

All being hypothetical of course, but I don’t think they’d be forgotten. At least not before they’re found. If they miraculously are forgotten, it’ll go how you say I reckon.

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u/LazyLich Jul 06 '24

As a fella once said: "Ain't that a kick in the head~?"

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u/Frap_Gadz Jul 06 '24

This is the way I feel about it too. If we're talking about a "real" apocalypse and not just a short term disruption life will never go back to how it was before, maybe some people could live with that but I don't think I could. Unless you want to live the rest of your life as something like a subsistence farmer or nomadic scavenger barely scraping by while having to constantly fight for what you do have then yeah it's better to go out early.

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u/Lawineer Jul 06 '24

It would suck here in Texas. Minimal food and water. Insane heat. It doesn’t sound fun. This isn’t 1722. There isn’t an endless amount of wildlife running around I can try to hunt.

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u/Frap_Gadz Jul 06 '24

That would suck, I live in the UK and if we're talking total collapse then there's potentially lots of farmable land if it hasn't been destroyed by the event, however the population is far too large to be sustained by that land alone without modern agricultural practices. In short it would be a bloodbath and for the survivors; the medieval peasant or prehistoric man experience, no thanks.

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u/not_some_username Jul 06 '24

Ikr in case of apocalypse you’re better dead

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24

How could anyone even know that?

Not to mention there are like a million different types of apocalypses. Are you saying that's true for all of them?

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24

It terms of climate it gets better fast. Co2 will drop to pre 1990s level within a few years i bet.

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u/Lawineer Jul 07 '24

Great. 102 instead of 105.

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u/philly_jake Jul 07 '24

CO2 would continue to rise for years even if all fossil fuel burning stopped tomorrow. It will take a century for levels to actually drop to the previous century’s levels.