• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    This is part of the equation that they’ve proven themselves consistently awful at assessing properly.

    There was this guy who did a bunch of interviews with super wealthy people about their apocalypse shelter plans, and he was like “What stops all the poors from killing you and taking your stuff?”

    And they’re like “Oh, we have ex-Navy SEAL private security details, we’re good.”

    So the guy asks them “What stops the SEALs from killing you and taking your stuff?”

    They were stumped. Not a one of them had a good answer. Like, one guy floated having the only password to the vault where all the supplies are kept, as if Navy SEALs don’t know how to torture information out of someone. Waterboarding was that guy’s best case outcome.

    They really, really don’t understand that they need us, but we don’t need them. And the only thing keeping them alive is that we haven’t really figured that out yet either.