When Libertarians are in charge, garbage lines the streets and bears attack.
When Republicans are in charge, gas prices skyrocket and everyone gets explosive diarrhea.
Put that on a t-shirt.
They think they will start a new kingdom with them as a ruler.
What it means is they are gonna get murdered in a bunker.
Also important to remember that the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is about a billion dollars.
https://futurism.com/future-society/apocalypse-compound-fails-wealthy-residents-turn-on-each-other
You know things have gotten bad when even the vaults from Fallout seem more egalitarian…
Seriously! I remember some story about how they brought out a psychologist to contemplate how to control their population. He basically said “just be friends with them” and they said “Na, what about bomb collars?”.
They really think the legal protections they’ve enjoyed their whole life, will extend once there are no more laws. They are trying to destroy the only thing protecting them, the system.
“[Right] Libertarians are like house cats, they’re convinced of their fierce independence while dependent on a system they don’t appreciate or understand.”
Caesar Speedrun
Veni Vidi Vhoopsiedoodle
They’re building very nice bunkers for their security teams.
They know that the reality is they could never truly defend themselves if the tide turned. I have a theory that the reason they are ramping up so rapidly now is they see the writing on the wall and are behaving like a cornered animal. They’ve already done too much to be forgiven so the only option is to accelerate their end goal even though its clearly undercooked.
The smartest thing they can do is to nationalize their companies into any applicable public utilities. Liquidate the rest and set up some sort of charitable trust or some nonprofit that will help sort funds into various social programs.
Then slink off and live off the wealth they stole. Bar them and their family from starting new business endeavors for 100 years.
I hope you’re right that the writing on the wall is for them and not for us.
But so long as private business endeavors continue to exist, they’ll just invest through a middleman.
To be fair, they can already do whatever they want, consequence free, in the continental US. The Mars exploration and ocean bases may just be honest “let’s do cool science fiction shit (and profit off government contracts to do so)”.
What? I mean why are we out here in this canyon.
Might as well call it Epstein Island
As long as their separation fantasies turn out like the Führerbunker for everyone inside, I’m all for it.
This is why Musk and co are trying to speedrun robot development.
first thing I thought about when bezos did his we’re gonna move workers to space schtick.
They already have a tax exempt colony called Prospera in Honduras don’t they?
They do and it seems to be going OK for them, not sure about how it is for the workers. Honduras did allow them to open up a second location that’s manufacturing focused so it seems there’s SOME benefit to the local economy? They have to pay 12% tax to Honduras on the city’s earnings IIRC, but I’m not sure what the city’s own tax rate is. AFAIK, low but not 0.
If you’re a millionaire, you might like it there. It’s like a resort with offices and coworking spaces. Compared to nice locations in the US, it’s actually kinda cheap. Compared to anything in South or Central America it’s very expensive, compared to at least eastern europe, it’s still expensive. If I was a multimillionaire tech bro trying to become a billionaire tech bro with a startup, I’d probably go. Not so much because of the regulations but because it’s a stunning location they managed to plant their colony on.
You mean the place with 45 weirdos and a bunch of money laundering and tax evasion? They just import workers from real Honduras outside the “agreement of co-existence.” Not gonna have the same option on Mars.
