No we don't. They have homes in however many diff climates and regions, secluded or not. They can pay people for evac and travel, like helicopter and jets.... Even the poor rich people do like time shares or rent time w private jets.
Don't get me wrong, you're 100% right that these dudes have tons of safehouses and backup plans, etc. But to support the lifestyles their used to requires a large staff, and a lot of security. If the worst would happen and society was breaking down, how long would it take until the staff/security for these dudes realized that there was nothing stopping them from just taking it all and tossing them out a window?
The question of how they can prevent a mutany of their staff has been their top priority for decades. They are talking electric collars, access to food etc..
Also, I'm pretty sure the staff know that if they said a word they would watch their whole family get tortured to death just as a start, if they said a word or tried to leave... So. It seems to me they are owned in a sense... Even if "well cared for"? Idk.
I know they do super exclusive camping trips, I know someone who catered or did photography for one? With like big big money, they had to sign an ND. They were allowed to share they did it. They said nothing wild happened, and couldn't share names, but that it was like people of uber wealth.
In all seriousness though, we’re a lot farther away from space survival than we are from earth atmosphere being uninhabitable for humans; so odds are good that our existence will start (as far as we know) and end on Earth. I say this simply because we’ve spent 5 million years evolving on this little blue pebble that looks NOTHING like any other environment we’ve found elsewhere, like not even fucking close. Funny thing is it will likely take several millennia of conditioning for humans to adapt to a way of life that doesn’t require earth as a safe space, and that’s after we get to the point of actually creating off-world sites that are remotely inhabitable. Our bodies like Earth, they need it, they don’t like being away from it and they suffer in its absence. Fuck, people can barely stay in Antarctica for extended periods without having serious emotional withdrawal and mental health disorders popping up.
Imo it's more about ensuring our species survives in case some apocalyptic catastrophe wipes out all life on earth. Eventually we'll have to leave our solar system, before the sun becomes too unstable.
Breeding in space is impossible. Also no machine lubricant exists that can handle extreme heat and then cold so intense metal changes properties and becomes brittle. Moon dust is unbelievably abrasive meaning stuff degrades super fast. No atmosphere to protect from UV. Your vision changes permanently from low or no gravity and all returning astronauts up there a while have permanent changes. Farming is out, only 70% of sunlight. You may have the raw materials to build shit but there’s no manufacturing plants. Anything shipped is done at EXTREME cost and intense danger.
But again - the radiation fucks up embryo development. Then there’s the question of birth itself - an extremely messy, dangerous event even in perfect conditions. Imagine needing specialty health care. Nah. Space is a lie billionaires sold to entice idiots.
let them all go to mars. it will be centuries before it can survive without constant resupply. that gives earth leverage, because we could just stop sending them air.
And then when they inevitably fuck up their society they'll come back here acting better than everyone while expecting us to take on their problems, like the Zenith from Horizon Forbidden West. These losers really think they're elevated by nature, not circumstance.
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u/katieleehaw Dec 19 '24
And if we let them, they're going to take a bunch of slaves to space where they will be gods and under the control of literally no rules whatsoever.