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.

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    10 months ago

    These fuckers are building this world to their liking with there social shit and whatever else. And guess who is the first to run from there own creation. These fucking asscocks are the biggest fucking cowards there are.

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    First of all, bravo to the bunker building industry, to manage to sell doomsday preping to all these rich folks.

    Now, from a practical standpoint, how cool it’s to have $300m laying around for your little hobby? Because that’s what this is, a hobby.

    If society collapse, that Shit may buy them a couple of years tops, of a very miserable life.

    They won’t Fuck scape to Mars or to a bunker. We’ll eventually eat the rich like a fucking French revolution and spend few generations cleaning the mess.

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    10 months ago

    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.

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      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?

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    10 months ago

    These rich fuckers see the writing on the wall, and seriously are using their means expecting to beat societal collapse. Fucked up.

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    10 months ago

    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        10 months ago

        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.

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      10 months ago

      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

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      They’ve been using distopian cautionary tales as a how-to guide, maybe they’ve gotten into action movies and thought “hey, that guy is just like me! Maybe I need a giant compound to keep me safe from government agents and heroes trying to give me my just desserts”

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    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.

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    10 months ago

    with plans for a huge underground bunker

    The future was revealed

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      10 months ago

      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…

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    “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

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      10 months ago

      Wouldn’t you?

      I win the lottery and have a couple hundred million to blow and “Bond Villain Lair” is like #1 on my list of shit to do.

      #2 is “buy a bunch of land and surplus military equipment and play Warhammer 40k with actual tanks” and I feel like those two things fit nicely together.

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    10 months ago

    I wonder how Oprah’s compares? Her’s is so large she was able to get access to a small road that cut across an island closed to the public.

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      A bit hyperbolic there. The road didn’t cut across an island; it went from Ulupalakua to Kihei; nearly a straight line that cut out about 30 miles of travelling. It was voted closed because idiots who lived upcountry didnt want any tourists from Kihei driving into their area. What it did was punish those who worked in the resorts but couldnt afford to live nearby. Oprah bought the road because it was offered to her when the residents voted it closed.

      Tl;dr: Oprah is a piece of shit but Kula residents are bigger pieces of shit

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    10 months ago

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

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    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.

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      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?