Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound | WIRED

A WIRED investigation just revealed Mark Zuckerberg’s years-long construction of a lavish, bunker-equipped sprawling compound in Hawaii.

The details:

The nearly completed Koolau Ranch spans 1,400 acres with over a dozen buildings, 30 bedrooms, off-grid power and food, helipads and underground bunkers with blast-resistant doors.

Costs eclipse $270 million — with reports of extreme NDAs muzzling hundreds of workers, lawsuits targeting landholders, and Zuckerberg reps allegedly clashing with press.

Political ties abound as the Chan/Zuckerberg donations flow, including hiring a former council chair and funding a former vice chair’s nonprofit.

While tech entrepreneurs have a history of doomsday prepping, Zuck sounds like he’s taking this Hawaiian hideaway to the next level.

paddirn,

“And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”

—Masque of the Red Death

Railison,

Gentlemen, welcome to my Hawaiian island retreat lair.

anon_8675309,

When people start fighting each other for bits of food because climate change has made it impossible to feed 8 billion of us, the rich will camp out in their bunkers until they can move to mars.

Doorbook,

Doesn’t climate change means that sea level is raising and most of the islands and cities near water around the world will be gone in a few years?

anteaters,

Even accelerated by climate change the sea lavel rise is a slow process with about 1 meter per 100 years.

Doorbook,

I thought it is sooner 😔

bruhduh,
@bruhduh@lemmy.world avatar

Another one became super villain

Nomad,

So he has about 30 people including himself he actually cares about.

IHadTwoCows,

He does not have 30 friends.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I think you all are missing the upside here.

There’s every chance we can all chase him into the bunker and never let him out again.

RubberElectrons,
@RubberElectrons@lemmy.world avatar

I like how you think.

burliman,

Their wealth is almost entirely composed of equity, which topples if the world fails. All the cash they have to build these mansions is derived from this. The value of cash itself is derived from this. The only things of worth in a post-apocalyptic world are the tangible things they bought with cash while it was worth something. Shelter, food generation, defense… those are still worth something, along with more important things: physical skills and practical knowledge.

They will find themselves in their mansion-bunker, surrounded by people who they have paid to be there, in a world where the currency they use to pay them has failed. Do they not see what will happen? Even if their plan involves complete self-isolation, how do they plan on maintaining these massive properties and fixing things when they break? Perhaps they have a plan to close themselves off to some smaller, easier to maintain part of it. But then what is the whole point if all you have is solitary confinement? Even if it all works and they can survive it, they will eventually emerge into a world that has failed, where their wealth means little to nothing and the skills that built that wealth are as useful as ornamental testicles on a monster truck.

Why do they put their money toward projects like this, instead of towards ways to make the world more stable so that it doesn’t fail in the first place. If I had the immense wealth they have, which was completely contingent on the world and people that it stood upon, I would do everything I could to make sure the world would not fall apart. And if it wasn’t enough and it was failing still, I would spend even more until almost nothing was left. Building a fortress in a failing state is stupid, and history can tell you that with 5 minutes of reading.

In all their supposed intelligence, it seems they haven’t thought it through much… or I am missing something glaring.

a9249,

In all their supposed intelligence, it seems they haven’t thought it through much

They are brainwashed by capitalism. Unable to perceive a world where money becomes worthless.

Modern_medicine_isnt,

He probably had a room built and filled with bottle caps.

danielbln,

Boston Dynamic dogs, Tesla Optimus, and so on. Why pay humans if you can automate them and have drones do all those tasks for you.

burliman,

Maintenance.

danielbln,

End game is bots maintaining themselves, automated production lines for parts etc.

Croquette,

Yes but every system is bound to fail. If you depend on robots for maintenance and their auto maintenance breaks, you are in a lot of trouble.

sizzler,

It’s a system you don’t have to pay and won’t revolt. You still aren’t getting what we are saying.

bruhduh,
@bruhduh@lemmy.world avatar

Factorio game be like

Immersive_Matthew,

The price of a guilty conscience?

DJDarren,

Have these fuckers not read World War Z? The rich won’t get to just hide in bunkers, they’ll get eaten just the same as the rest of us.

bruhduh,
@bruhduh@lemmy.world avatar

Fallout 3 tenpenny tower quest be like

Nobody,

The second the shit hits the fan, the security guards are going to shoot him in the head and take over the island, and that’s if he hasn’t pissed them off enough to torture him first.

RememberTheApollo_,

I never get stuff like this. If civilization collapses, do these guys think they’re actually going to find people to deliver them to their bunkers? And if they do, they’re going to tell the people that brought them there to fuck off? You don’t get a spot? And even if you do get a spot inside, what’s going to happen? You’re the chauffeur and are gonna be zucks bitch cleaning everything and doing dishes for however long you’re stuck inside?

All these thechbro bunkers are absurd. They think they’ll actually make it to them, that they won’t be overrun eventually (or whatever security they hire won’t turn on them) or that life in a post apocalyptic world is worth living. Guess slowly killing yourself with a hoard of alcohol is better than dying with the rabble?

GoofSchmoofer,
@GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world avatar

The few wealthy people I’ve met, not billionaires but $100+ millionaires, seem to have a limited skill set. They have “people” to do the work. I’ve always wondered how they would fair in a post-apocalyptic world?

Personally I’d rather have those people that can MacGuyver a solution out of rubber bands and mud.

All this to say that ol’ Zuck should probably hire some good ol’ boys/girls to do his work for him or he’s screwed.

aStonedSanta,

10000% agreed. Sure you are rich enough to somehow live through. Along with other Richie’s. Who actually can hunt or knows electronics and wiring? Lol

sizzler,

Farmers mate, farmers.

aStonedSanta,

For sure. I meant in the billionaire class that would survive in these fantasies of theirs.

Pons_Aelius,

Even the people who have survival skills but have grown up in modern society would struggle to survive long term in a complete break down scenario.

The people most likely to make it through?

The residents of north sentential island and other people still living a subsistence life style.

GoofSchmoofer,
@GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world avatar

Yep. I think “The Road” by Cormack McCarthy is probably the closest to what a post-apocalyptic world would look like and that shit is bleak.

onlinepersona,

Got through 1/3 of the article. It feel artificially lengthened and information is scattered to be repeated a few paragraphs later. Felt like reading the story of an old man who keeps telling the same story over and over.

neuracnu,
@neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Y’all need to start reading my boy Rushkoff:

rushkoff.com/…/survival-of-the-richest-escape-fan…

aStonedSanta,

This sounds worth a read what is his reputation like as an author?

TheHobbyist,

It’s almost as if he was trying to hide from prying eyes… And get some… What was it again… Privacy?

Senex,
@Senex@reddthat.com avatar

A live volcano chain is not somewhere I would build a bunker.

14th_cylon,

the probability of a zombie apocalypse AND a volcano eruption happening at the same time is probably not that high.

and as a location for a weekend house, hawaii has nice climate and is significantly closer to california than new zealand…

Senex,
@Senex@reddthat.com avatar

But it would make a great movie!

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