Obviously, the "offering a 10% incremental chance of survival" part of the above is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this calculation. There's just too many ways for shit to go wrong for you to feel that confident. Still, it might be worth the expense even if you just treat it as a (very expensive) entertainment exercise.
Option 2: Dig a big hole to live in while the poors eat each other
Plus, these options are not mutually exclusive. You can do your best to ensure a just, peaceable world while still digging a really big bunker.
The one thing I genuinely wonder is what odds each billionaires gives their private mercenary force for not usurping the “throne” from them after an apocalypse.
Al Corbi, president and founder of Virginia-based SAFE (Strategically Armored & Fortified Environments), which caters to custom designs for the uber-rich, notes that many billionaires are particularly focused on how to survive power grid failures, including buying cars and planes that are less reliant on computer interfaces.
“A lot of these guys are buying up King Air or older planes that don’t have the electronic avionics, and keeping one or two older cars built before 1986 in their collection, so they’ll still function in an EMP [electromagnetic pulse].
Power is certainly nice to have but most people outside the capital city have backup plans and are used to getting by when it drops out.
that tiny, huge opening.
you know what, never mind. let’s just get to the point.
for someone with this kind of money, bringing people from far enough away, geographically, culturally, and economically, would be a viable means of isolating them, and even silencing them.