Excellent piece, thank you. I’ve long adored Monbiot’s elegantly thoughtful writing. And yeah, screw those billionaire zombies!!
Great article. Thanks for posting.
Upset that zoning laws apply to him too and not just the little people?
a profile of timothy mellon, a guy who supports both trump and rfk, and probably best described as an idiot with money
The middle of this piece features some very familiar faces, mentioned throughout this thread.
I’ve seen that happen with a Corvette. The newer nozzles are designed to break away and the pump automatically shuts off.
…Are Not Philanthropists
Mild shock
Voting must matter a lot if these people are working so hard to stop us.
Should we start a GoFundMe for those suffering billionaires?
Castle fortress’s for the new feudal lords. With moats.
I’d be concerned about the security of anything designed by someone who appears to think that a water filled moat is a defensive feature.
Also he’s apparently been working on this house for a while now.
"The house itself, Corbi said in an interview via Zoom, is ultra-secure with the blast-proof doors, unbreakable windows and biometric door-entry systems. Then there’s the 30-foot-deep moat with a swing bridge, the water canons [sic] capable of taking out helicopters, drones or skydivers, and the film of flammable liquid that can be automatically deployed across the surface of the artificial lake and ignited to create a defensive ring of fire."
What could possibly go wrong?
Although, I must admit - from a professional viewpoint this sounds like a project that could be a lot of fun. Putting aside for a moment that rich clients usually bicker about the money their follies add up to cost at the end of the day. (Always give them at least a projection a first grader could understand, and have them sign it off. Just saying.)
I would love to see the plans, the evacuation scheme, the building permit, the accounting, in other words pretty much everything on this.
Oh, and on the off-chance that an actual billionaire reads this: how about using a fraction of your money and influence on working towards a world where nobody needs a bunker? Now that would be really cool. You can still have bunkers just for fun if that’s your thing.
