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超级富豪的末日准备
Doomsday Prep for the Super-rich
2017 — 2021，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
导读
《纽约客》2017年的长篇报道，讲述硅谷超级富豪们的“末日准备”风潮：购买新西兰掩体、地下公寓、学习射箭等，为想象中的社会崩溃做准备。文章同时探讨了这些准备在道德和实际层面的荒谬之处。
为什么经久不衰：它揭示了财富与不安全感之间的悖论——最富有的人恰恰是最恐惧失去秩序的人，这一主题在疫情、AI焦虑等时代反复引发共鸣。
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真正的生存之道是融入互信的紧密社区，而非独自躲藏
超级富豪似乎不明白：如果社会真的崩溃，唯一存在的个人主义就是硬核的个人主义。躲在掩体里也许能撑一阵，但那将是充满恐惧的生活。个人无法独自生存，能保障生存的是部落、村庄和家庭。更好的生存策略是：在阿米什人聚居区中间建一个隐蔽的储藏掩体，装满末日所需的药品、备件、工具和简单食物。末日来临时，邀请所有邻居共享物资，同时研读圣经，成为社区里的重要成员。
Nokinside查看英文原文
Super-rich don't seem to understand that if the society collapses, only individualism that exists is rugged individualism. Hiding int he bunker might work for some time, but it would be life of fear. Individuals don't survive alone. It's the tribe, village and family that ensures survival. Best way to survive would be to connect into some tight knit community, where people who know and trust other take care of each other. If you have plenty and someone is starving, you share and bond or you fight. Here is better survival strategy for Silicon Valley billionaire: Build hidden storage bunker in the middle of Amish country. Fill it with all the community needs in doomsday, medicine, spare parts, tools and simple food. When doomsday happens, invite all your neighbors to share while you study bible and become important member in your community.
文章点出了末日准备的讽刺、道德问题和不切实际
我本来担心这篇文章会让我愤怒，但它没有回避那些更尖锐的问题：A/ 我们如今“在薄冰上滑行”，很大程度上要归咎于社交媒体的兴起和主导，而正是制造混乱的那批人在试图保护自己免受其害，这实在讽刺；B/ 如果社会崩溃时只想独自活命，这在道德上相当可憎；C/ 这完全不切实际，因为你无法独自生存太久——“你打算带上飞行员的家人吗？维修人员呢？”
bambax查看英文原文
I was afraid this article was going to upset me, but in fact it doesn't shy away from the more difficult questions, namely A/ the reason we're "skating on really thin cultural ice right now" is in no small part due to the emergence and dominance of social media, so it's quite rich that the people responsible for chaos are trying to protect themselves from it B/ it's quite morally repugnant to want to survive alone if society collapses C/ it's completely impractical because you can't survive alone for very long ("are you taking your pilot's family with you? What about the maintenance guys?")
财富依赖社会秩序维系，秩序崩溃后金钱毫无意义
维护这些巨大庄园需要多少受雇的人？这些人似乎不明白，他们的财富和财产之所以属于他们，只是因为背后有一套庞大的有组织的权力体系——律师、持枪警察、每月必须挣现金的人。事情恶化五秒后，那架直升机就属于飞行员了，不再属于你。如果你真的害怕末日，就该囤积唯一重要的东西：朋友和家人，以及不建立在金钱上的真实关系。
fallingfrog查看英文原文
How many paid people does it take to maintain these huge compounds?? These people don't seem to understand that all of their wealth and possessions only belong to them because there is a big organized power system that says so, with lawyers and cops with guns and people that are required to obtain cash money every month. 5 seconds after things go south, that helicopter belongs to the pilot, not to you. That land you're buying belongs to the person standing on it. If you're really afraid of the apocalypse, then stock up on the only things that will matter afterwards: friends and family, real relationships not based on money. That and some hand tools and guns.
末日公寓的安保人员本身就是最大的威胁
富人为什么会信任“生存公寓”这类项目？一旦末日来临、法治消失，有什么能阻止武装警卫接管一切、除掉他们曾经的富有客户（或者干脆锁死大门拒绝任何人进入）？当警卫可以除掉这帮（前）富人、把物资分给自己的家人朋友时，留着这些老家伙有什么用？
Johnny555查看英文原文
Why would a wealthy person trust something like the Survival Condo Project? Once SHTF and society collapses and rule of law goes away, what's to keep the armed guards from taking over and eliminating their formerly wealthy clients (or just locking the place down and refusing to let anyone in)? Why bother keeping a bunch of old (formerly) rich men around when the guards can just get rid of them and take their share of the supplies to help ensure the survival of their own families and friends?
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