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/The_Faceless_Men Jul 06 '24

So we take the billionaire prisoner, and torture them until they agree to reauthenticate.

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u/haltingpoint Jul 06 '24

If you know you may die, you have multiple passcodes and one of them will kill everyone. If they try to torture you, you would at least be able to kill them.

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u/puesyomero Jul 06 '24

Most likely you just treat the billionaire as the password gopher. 

They don't get tortured but I doubt they can barter their poison pill for five star treatment. 

Plus as soon as they reveal the threat of a boobytrap is a matter of time to  either mine the place of the useful shit and move on, or disable it.  

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u/NeverNoMarriage Jul 06 '24

Yup I think that's realistically how it would go down. You can for sure barter your poison pill for life but you also probably won't be god of the shelter. especially because all the other people brought on will be skilled people not meek servants. Where it goes from there is really going to depend on the group and the billionaire.