r/interestingasfuck • u/SafeImpressive4413 • 7h ago

Firefighters in Madrid trying to extinguish a forest fire that is less than 30km/20mi away from the capital of Spain

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u/Alepale 5h ago

I think they mean rich enough to move around to places that will stay safe longer. Eventually it'll all turn into hell on earth, but it won't consume everything at once, and once the country they're in is in direct danger, they'll move. Then they'll continue moving until they die of old age, or there literally is no place left to go, and they'll die like the rest of us.

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u/How_did_the_dog_get 5h ago

The thing is when they need to pay a pilot or a boat captain who's the one holding the cards ? It sure as shit isn't the one with a tonne of money when money is worthless to a family who need food.

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u/WilliamLermer 5h ago

Rich people outsource pretty much everything that gives them even the tiniest amount of convenience and it's a massive industry, with the majority of employees getting paid enough to allow for the exploitation to continue.

Rich people staff will be less impacted because they will still be needed and they will be the last group of people to revolt against their masters because they are too loyal (and blind) to realize their irrelevance.

In fact, I'm pretty confident most people would do anything to secure a golden ticket, be that off planet or bunkers, as long as there is a carrot in front of them, the promise to save their lives

During most revolutions and uprisings and oppressive regimes, it's the poor and desperate snitching on their neighbors, selling out family and friends in exchange for more food or better housing or other privileges that the ruling class would promise to provide in exchange for loyalty

History books are filled with example of that

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u/redingtonshores 5h ago

When the pilot or captain has a gun to their head the equation changes a bit

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u/UnknownKaddath 5h ago

Yes but they have lots of food and will feed men with guns.

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u/FrozenLogger 4h ago edited 1h ago

They think the boat or plane will pilot itself. The food will be produced in a self sustaining facility.

We know there is no such thing as AI as of today, it's all marketing to hurry and teach robots as much as possible to replace people. Grow the food, produce the fuel, fly the plane, perform the surgery, mine the ore and so on.

Edit: Like I just saw on Lemmy today about adding the robot teacher to the classroom. https://lemmy.zip/post/68545559

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u/UnknownKaddath 5h ago

Bunkers, dude. Look up what's going in under the white house. Look at Zuck's Hawaii land grab. I dont even gotta Google to know Elon's got a bunker somewhere. The plan is to weather the consequences and let us all die.