Why would anyone be surprised by something like this? Do you think Bill Gates, etc. don't have multiple bol's? Thing is, what happens to these people when they get to their hideout...who's going to protect them from their own security people if they have their own ideas?
You would have to rely on all countries going under at the same time. Otherwise providing security for some richy rich would not only be a decent earner. But a viable bug out plan of your own.
It's also why billionaires like Bloomberg, Gates, Winphrey, Zuckerburg, and the Hollywood A-list are against guns. They might be targeted also. Weird how that works when people can connect the dots.
bolt·hole
ˈbōltˌhōl/
noun
a place where a person can escape and hide.
"he thought of Antwerp as a possible bolthole"
BRITISH
a hole or burrow by which a rabbit or other wild animal can escape.
That's NutZ. Just yesterday, I noticed an empty bolthole, and I filled it - with a bolt and then added a nut to keep it there. Didn't hafta be rich, but the person who was working there thought I was super for fixing it.
super rich..mega yachts, some, like Oracle's Larry Ellison (Tony STark wannabee) have entire islands now..
guys like that will have the resources to deal with locals, even zombies...but when the Navy or Coast Guard pulls up to the dock...wanting the logistical resources, etc...game over.
course most of us will be long gone, eaten by infected zombies by then so we won't get to gloat, but still..nice to think about Bill Gates hitting the Restart button on his mouse cause he hasn't got a trigger to pull
Dyslexia and/or failing eyesight can produce interesting results. When I first read the title I got "Panicked Super-Rich buying BROTHELS" and that brought me to a dead stop. :
The super rich and well connected will already be at their boltholes before the SHTF. I've always regarded them as the canary in the coalmine. When you suddenly see a mass migration of them, you know something major is about to go down.
Some of the responses were truly funny! : Thanks, I needed that today.
^^^ This is about the only use I have for the "paparazzi." When the super rich and well-connected cannot be located to have their photographs taken wearing the latest styles/wearing little-to-nothing/"out for Starbucks" /having a swim on the French or Italian Riviera/handing a large check to their favorite charity/blah-blah-blah, it's absolutely time to put one's plans on the front burner to activate according to whatever the crisis may be.
This is no different from a middle class person buying rural property and having a home built on it to start a homestead for when TSHTF. The only real difference is the details. How much property, how far away, how will you get there, etc.
I don't see them in a negative way for this. They're doing exactly what I am trying to do and for the same reasons. It's just that I have to make money and save, and they already did that part.
Maybe some of them need to become SB members. I mean, they sound like preppers to me. Just rich ones. And I remember back when being rich didn't mean you were automatically a bad person for it.
"Panicked super rich buying boltholes with private airstrips to escape if poor rise up"
OK...so now we are bagging on the rich preppers?
Lets reword this:
Panicked non-rich normal citizens buy prepping gear and BOV's (while wishing they had planes and private airstrips) to escape to a BOL if the masses rise up.
If we word it that way, it sounds kinda normal around here, doesn't it?
Agreed, whether rich or poor, prepping makes sense. If the wealthy persons intend on participating with everyone else in the re-building process (if the "event" is a true TEOTWAWKI), fine. If the wealthy persons intend to merely isolate themselves, letting the "everyone else" re-build, then re-appearing when things are "semi-normalized"/law and order restored, then, yes, I have a problem with that.
Those that "own tropical islands" for their BOLs can stay there for the rest of their natural lives as far as I'm concerned. Everybody can do something: carry water, plant seeds, weed, hoe, dig, sew, knit, weave, tend the fire, feed the chickens and rabbits. I have zero use for people whose sole purpose in life is to be decorative.
...let em go to their private islands.. makes it easier to find em..
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