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Bob Churchill's avatar

The madness of figures like Thiel is staggering - do they REALLY want to live in underground "survival" bunkers when THIER vision of the world and "market forces" have turned the planet into a wasteland? I was a builder for many years - naturally, many of my clients had LOTS of money. In the course of my work I learned just because you have a ton of money doesn't mean you have a lick of sense; none of these bunker builders - and there are many, evidently - seem to have thought their "survival" scenarios through. I can tell you this - I'm the guy these weirdos would have hired to build their bunkers - for the simple reason they don't know how to do it themselves - and couldn't do it alone if they did. Their multi-million dollar heating, cooling, water purification, storage, solar and grow room systems are ALL eventually gonna need servicing and repairs. Who's gonna do that? They're gonna need staff - period. Indefinitely. Suddenly, there's a community in the bunker. I promise you - one day soon after the bomb-proof vault door closes, the staff is gonna look around and realize the ONE person they don't need is the guy who hired them - and they'll kill him. So much for "survival"...

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Ravi Bellur's avatar

My punk rock band rehearsed across the way from the Stanford review back when he was editor. We used to play very bad covers of like Tracy chapman and sinead o Connor songs whenever they had staff meetings XD

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