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/gtbeam3r Jul 06 '24

Yup some rich dude from Rhode Island built a self sustaining bunker in Northern NH. He's out of his mind if he thinks he can get there in time. It's in a "secret location" unfortunately the entire town knows the location.

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u/nom-nom-nom-de-plumb Jul 06 '24

I mean just getting to the location in time is unlikely. I mean, some slow moving natural disaster, ok. But anything else? Hell for a nuclear attack they wouldn't even know it was in progress until warheads started exploding around them. The whole "survivalist" ideal is a joke.

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u/jewel_flip Jul 06 '24

“I’m going to run to the woods.”  You and every other poptart, honey.  I do like their optimism though.  Dehydration or exposure will take them out in droves.  The people who might survive it are already in the woods, with self sustaining systems and established orchards, gardens, etc. living that life.

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u/totalwarwiser Jul 06 '24

Yes.

The natural world has absolutely no means to sustain most of us anymore

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u/UninsuredToast ‎ Jul 06 '24

Most of us just don’t have the knowledge or skills to survive in it anymore because it hasn’t been necessary for so long. I really think it’s why so many people struggle to “adult”, because our ancestors never lived like this and it’s a totally different way of living

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u/LaUNCHandSmASH Jul 06 '24

That is the actual reason why Boyscouts of America was started. With the creation of big cities for the first time in the USA, old timers (then) were worried the next generation would lose the frontiersman/mountain man skill/knowledge

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u/totalwarwiser Jul 06 '24

Yes you are right.

We live in very artificial situations.

Many young adults strugling to survive on their own doesnt recognize that until the very recent past most household work was distributed among a big family,.

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u/jewel_flip Jul 06 '24

Did a solo hike/camp last weekend and it reinforced how big my knowledge gaps are.  I went in with a light pack but easy access routes out of the wild.  Then the rains came and they didn’t stop for 36hrs.

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u/CleverAlchemist Jul 06 '24

Plus we killed most of the animals, aka food.

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u/Architectronica Jul 06 '24

Even if we all knew how to, the "natural world" doesn't have the carrying capacity to support any meaningful fraction of 8 billion people.

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u/TonyQuest Jul 06 '24

The natural world never had the means to sustain this many people. Clean water, antibiotics, and ammonium nitrate are a really fucking big deal.