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> Note to oligarchs: a post-apocalyptic world is no fun. Not even for you in your bunkers.

It's amusing to me that oligarchs don't seem to understand that if the economy goes to hell, their private security forces will just leave (or worse!). What do they think they will pay salaries with? Bitcoin? Do they really think an army of robot dogs is going to protect them?





Warlords exist in the poorest of economies. They have made the calculation that they should hedge for collapse and attempt to establish themselves for that situation.

Warlords will emerge, but the current crop of pasty-faced manboy billionaires ain't gonna become the warlords.

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.


Do they really think an army of robot dogs is going to protect them?

Why would anyone think otherwise?


Because they knew Snow Crash was fiction?

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Rat_Things_(Snow_Crash)


15 guns, and what do I get? [...] Sold my soul to the company habitat.



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