This article doesn’t talk much about the everyday security environment for “Silicon Valley billionaires”; I assume most are covered 24/7 by some kind of armed security.

I’m no judge on his subsequent advice. I’m going to last ~5 minutes if the balloon goes up, and not just because of needing some meds. I am under no illusions about that.

That and, despair about leftism aside, the more or less complete loss of civilization and its records, achievement, and identity will probably not leave me in a good enough mood to care.

But I will probably read the book for self-improvement and on the off chance of help. Under those circumstances, every extra 5 minutes I remain around might just feel like some kind of win.

Once they emerge, what will society and the environment be like? This free PDF book (warning: it is over 400 detailed and well thought out pages) describes a likely scenario of what a post-SHTF world may shape up to:

In short,the population will be battle hardened and experienced survivors. They will have shaken off the shackles of a centralised government and formed their own societies which will be remarkably disinclined to obey the instructions of their self styled betters.

I doubt that the skills Mark Zukerberg has will be in great demand and again, I doubt that gold, dollar notes or other stuff that the rich place great store upon will be particularly appealing in exchange for food, shelter etc.

Unless and until they are able to recruit and maintain their own war bands (and once the restraints of their ‘contract’ are unenforceable, will they not simply take what they want from the rich bunker owner? And how do you store enough food etc. to maintain the numbers needed?) then they are unlikely to have the skills to survive or understand the changed conditions in the short time that they will have to adapt to the new reality of living in a post apocalypse world.

Should be fun! >};o)

And then I think of this little comedy ad from a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo6fgZ-dbOw