Fucker.
The price of my spuds just doubled on the back of this.
Don’t care how good your ruddy beef is - it’s nothing without MBOP.
Monsieur Baillie’s Overpriced Potatoes. Not to be confused with Hanson.
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Came here to suggest that Kauai is not boundless.
If I ever have that kind of money, y’all feel free to remind me that I could put that good fortune toward realizing a planet-wide, self-sustaining, apocalypse-proof redoubt, with room for everybody.
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Everyone has already said the important things, but I’d just like to note that one of the main considerations in building a doomsday bunker would be making it somewhere you can easily get to. It doesn’t help at all to put it in some tropical island paradise, since the whole point of a bunker is for when you don’t think you can go outside. If you’re just trying to get away you’d just want a home somewhere that the locals don’t hate you.
If Mark is really trying to be a prepper, he apparently is so disconnected from reality that he can’t imagine a doomsday that interferes with his private jet service. But I imagine he might not have actually thought about it at all, just has tons of money and heard bunkers are something other people are buying, so figured he should have a nice one for himself. Billionaires think a lot about making money but rarely have anything else in their head.
And yeah, we need to tax and regulate these sophomoric hoarders.
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Like superyachts. Once one billionaire has one, they all want one.
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I think the orca yacht sinkers need to up their game
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If I lived further South in New Zealand, close to Queenstown, and I was serious in prepping I would scope out likely bolthole mansions ahead of time. Mark them off on a map, and collect any relevant info like any gossip on “whom owns the place”, “is anyone ever there”, etc (all on hardcopy paper).
There is a high chance of a sudden “oh shit” situation that would require fleeing to New Zealand, that they will not be able to get to the country. If the owners of the bolthole have a supply of long-shelf life food, they probably will never miss it (when they are stuck in some other country with zombies outside their place).
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Yet that sort of thing (in other ways) seems to have been going on for a long, long time now. “Fuck you, got mine” is the conservative right’s battle cry.
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Another consideration would be trying to find a location that is a bit more geologically stable.
Interestingly enough, some bits of Iceland are the oldest known parts of the Earth’s crust (almost as old as Earth itself, IIRC) despite Iceland being pretty volcanic - but in a somewhat different way than Hawai’i. Something to do with plate tectonics, I think.
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I hope he overlooks something really simple.
Like toilet paper.
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Or air vents
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Maybe he’s planning on surviving the apocalypse in his own private metaverse:
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Great idea!
Sadly the truth is that commercial air travel is the first thing to stop during a crisis but I think desperate oligarchs would have no problem hopping on a jet to get ‘safe’.
I guess the more ethical issue is how far you go to smoke these people out of their hidey-holes to get their loot.
For me - the most likely scenario is to escape north into the frozen tundra to live out my days in hardship.
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Can opener (can’t remember if that’s from a Twilight Zone or a comic book)
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If it’s the same one I remember, it’s from the Texas power outages a year or so ago. Someone tweeted about her brother and his wife, big time preppers, and how they only had an electric can opener, so were mangling open cans of ravioli with a Bowie knife or something. 
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I think it was, possibly originally, from a Marvel “Tales of Suspense” from 1959
“Inside the Fallout Shelter!”
Excelsior!
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One thing that never seems to get addressed is what keeps the various functionaries, servants, mooks and experts around following their billionaire boss in a subservient position?
Why wouldn’t they just start loading up the billionaire’s jet with their family, looting the supplies of the bunker/stripping it down, and leaving their boss stranded.
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Waste of time and resources.
Their loot is worthless in a post-apocalyptic scenario.
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- Gain employment with a billionaire.
- Earn trust.
- Be given bunker alarm code.
- Offer to go into work early.
- Change codes.
- Enjoy the free bunker.
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Yes. Self sustaining would imply someplace where the workers agree to work and keep within the organization. Not likely.
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