You know what’s cheaper than building fucking castles and living in fucking fear all the fucking time?
Paying your taxes to fund a proper welfare state. Simple as.
Impenetrable
Lol. Keep thinking that.
This plays out on a less extreme level too, when an area attracts wealth the more wealthy residents will silo themselves behind security gates and kill any sense of community that the area previously had.
This is nothing new to the Mega Rich and absolutely an ad read from WSJ to the Middle Rich.
They can only store so much food in there.
How will drones ever cross the moat?
I got a trebuchet for sale.
I imagine the ultra-wealthy can afford their own personal surface-to-air missiles & their own personal army to man them.
Both of those sound more expensive than drones.
True but I think this guy means that we commoners could cross their strongholds with drones. And I meant that the wealthy could defend themselves against our paltry drones with surface-to-air missiles & their own personal armies.
They surely could.
And we could fling stuff over the walls to make sure they don’t get a minute of quiet or more than a week with un-scorched grass.
Fine. Trap them in their palaces. Turn them into tombs.
Unless you got a Black Agnes hiding in there it ain’t gonna do much.
What’s that, a Scottish 90yo version of Black Widow? 🤔
She was the lady of Dunbar during the second war of Scottish independence. She rather famously held the castle from pro-English forces through most of the war.
So they’re working really hard to make impossible to enter their houses. How hard would it be to modify them to make it impossible to leave?
Pretty sure that getting close enough without being murdered by hired goons would be the hardest part.
After solving that, anyone creative and/or competent enough should have no problem sealing the would be pharaohs in their pyramids of hubris 🤷
You can cause lot of fatigue in those goons by just having someone randomly shoot at them and run away once or twice a night.
So, ‘Under the dome’ but with the very rich instead of a random city, then.
The ultra rich have always done this, we just used to call them “castles”.
I wonder if someday there will be guided tours of Jeff Bezos’ mansion. A little museum too, all about his reign of terror.
What’s sad is, they already essentially do this with us.
The Epstein class literally do
Just to elaborate for the folks I’ve run into who doubt and downplay the worst of it - even if you remove the more lurid reports, the simple fact of “recruitment” for such a hideous enterprise, what accomplishing that requires - that is hunting humans for sport.
Extending globally to identify and traffick vulnerable young people, targets meeting the right criteria to make it all “work”.
No metaphors are needed, nor any reliance on anything remotely controversial in the files. Hunting humans for sport is exactly, dead on correct.
“Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man.” -General George Patton
What kind of life is that though. So now you’re stuck in a fancy prison and can’t trust anyone around you?
They could just try being nice, but I guess that’s too much work
