Complete story: https://www.theguardian.com/news/20...-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff
Summary: Tech expert is flown out to the middle of nowhere (desert) to meet with five of the super-rich. They are prepping in a huge way--facilities costing hundreds of millions, possibly billions. Stocking them, hiring guards (Navy Seals and the like), all in an effort to survive "the event": environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear war, solar storm, unstoppable bio- or computer virus. They want to know how to best deal with the event.
My comments:
Some people think** that global warming is a hoax or way overblown. That nuclear war is all but impossible today. These billionaires apparently...don't. They're attempting to prepare for the worst. And I seriously doubt that the five referenced ultra-rich are the only ones going for broke in this fashion.
What I find very disturbing is that the tech expert tried to get them to consider using their wealth to help solve society's problems. "Don’t just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships. They rolled their eyes at what must have sounded to them like hippy philosophy." Even more disturbing is that their concern is, apparently, entirely for themselves. I don't think that an ecosystem can be constructed to maintain survival for children and later descendants. Doesn't matter; THEY'LL survive. They hope.
One of their most pressing questions the billionaires had is stated above: maintaining authority after the event. Personally, I don't think it would be possible. Especially if anything at all goes wrong. Some guard might well reason that if there are supplies for fifty people for twenty years, that means supplies for twenty people for fifty years...
**Please do not use the word "believe" when referring to science. It isn't a belief system. It's a preponderance-of-objective-evidence system; imperfect but much better than the alternatives. Astrology is a belief system; astronomy is not. Theraputic touch is a belief system; biology is not. Crystal emanation/energy/whatnot is a belief system; chemistry is not.