Rich Preppers Ponder Shock Collars for SHTF Safety Employees

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by the creator of The Prepper’s Water Survival Guide and Three Miles

Ought to issues fully go sideways, each prepper is aware of that violent chaos will ensue. Not solely will people do issues they’d by no means ordinarily do with a view to feed their households, however some folks will give into their base instincts. There are lots of people on the market who're solely restrained by the prospect of extreme penalties in the event that they had been to do what they honestly wish to do.

All of which means that safety post-SHTF is crucial. Whether or not it’s your small suburban homestead, your house within the nation, or a billionaire bunker, anyplace folks have hunkered down with provides and assets to outlive may very well be topic to assault. That is one thing Selco wrote about in-depth in his books, and it’s actually only a matter of when, not if, after a societal collapse that this type of violence erupts.

Most of us have a plan to defend our houses and retreats. However what about these mysterious ultra-wealthy preppers who're placing plans into place? How do they intend to maintain their elite properties secure?

Unsurprisingly, they don’t assume like the remainder of us.

Douglas Rushkoff wrote a captivating article for the UK Guardian wherein he shares a gathering he had with 5 extraordinarily wealthy tech and hedge fund buyers. Rushkoff writes concerning the impression of digital know-how on our lives and is commonly tapped to talk with buyers relating to the way forward for know-how. For the sake of this dialog, let’s overlook about the truth that Rushkoff is a self-proclaimed Marxist.

When he was invited to satisfy with “ultra-wealthy stakeholders” manner out within the desert, his curiosity was piqued.

The dialog rapidly veered away from know-how and towards doom. They puzzled about their bunkers, their areas, and the most definitely end-of-the-world state of affairs to strike.

Then got here the dialogue surrounding safety.

“How do I keep authority over my safety drive after the occasion?”

This appears to be the purpose at which the paths of strange preppers and CEOs of brokerage homes diverge. A lot of the people I do know plan to hunker down with a trusted community of close friends and family. The idea of sustaining authority has by no means actually crossed my thoughts. (Is that simply me?) If you’re cooperating with a workforce, vs. hiring a workforce, I suppose the outlook is completely different.

Anyway, the query above took up an hour of the dialog. Rushkoff wrote:

They knew armed guards could be required to guard their compounds from raiders in addition to offended mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their option to his compound if he gave them the suitable cue. However how would he pay the guards as soon as even his crypto was nugatory? What would cease the guards from ultimately selecting their very own chief?

The billionaires thought-about utilizing particular mixture locks on the meals provide that solely they knew. Or making guards put on disciplinary collars of some form in return for his or her survival. Or possibly constructing robots to function guards and staff – if that know-how may very well be developed “in time”.

Ummm…did they only recommend placing shock collars on Navy Seals?

You realize you may have a very completely different outlook on life when somebody blithely means that one of the simplest ways to achieve loyalty from a fellow human being is by placing a collar on them and torturing them into compliance. Is it simply that high-finance executives take a look at others as assets? Or that they’re accustomed to having full authority over different folks?

And does any of that even matter? This philosophy tells you every thing it's essential learn about these folks.

Rushkoff tried interesting to their humanity.

I attempted to purpose with them. I made pro-social arguments for partnership and solidarity as the very best approaches to our collective, long-term challenges. The best way to get your guards to exhibit loyalty sooner or later was to deal with them like pals proper now, I defined. Don’t simply spend money on ammo and electrical fences, spend money on folks and relationships. They rolled their eyes at what will need to have sounded to them like hippy philosophy.

That is what most of us would do – construct relationships. However this isn't how different folks assume.

Highly effective folks will nonetheless wish to be highly effective.

My takeaway from that is easy:

The parents who think about themselves “the elite” proper now have each intention of remaining “the elite” after it hits the fan. After which, they gained’t be restrained by pesky labor legal guidelines, the potential of being charged with human rights violations, and fundamental morality.

The article goes on to reward the plans of JC Cole, a former president of the American chamber of commerce in Latvia. Cole agreed that one of the simplest ways to make sure loyalty was treating folks decently. His plan truthfully sounds lots like that of the typical prepper – it’s certainly one of group.

JC confirmed me the “layered safety” protocols he had realized designing embassy properties: a fence, “no trespassing” indicators, guard canine, surveillance cameras … all meant to discourage violent confrontation. He paused for a minute as he stared down the drive. “Truthfully, I'm much less involved about gangs with weapons than the lady on the finish of the driveway holding a child and asking for meals.” He paused, and sighed, “I don’t wish to be in that ethical dilemma.”…

JC is not any hippy environmentalist however his enterprise mannequin relies in the identical communitarian spirit I attempted to convey to the billionaires: the best way to maintain the hungry hordes from storming the gates is by getting them meals safety now. So for $3m, buyers not solely get a most safety compound wherein to trip out the approaching plague, photo voltaic storm, or electrical grid collapse. Additionally they get a stake in a doubtlessly worthwhile community of native farm franchises that would cut back the chance of a catastrophic occasion within the first place. His enterprise would do its finest to make sure there are as few hungry kids on the gate as potential when the time involves lock down.

His thought isn’t a novel one, nevertheless it’s in all probability issue to fathom for the billionaires that Rushkoff went to see.

A futuristic feudal society?

Think about a world wherein folks assume becoming shock collars on their safety groups is an inexpensive plan of action. Now think about these individuals are in cost, and so they’re unfettered by legal guidelines and media publicity. Of their preferrred state of affairs, we’d be a new-age feudal system, the place they've all the facility and the remainder of us must kowtow with a view to eat.

Freeze-dried meals for thought, isn’t it?

It’s a system that has occurred all through the historical past of the world, time and again, when just a few had the facility of life and demise over the numerous. It shouldn’t shock anybody that if some people had their manner, it could occur once more.

What are your ideas on this? Do you may have a safety philosophy you wish to share within the feedback? Would you ever rent your self out to folks to deal with safety in return for security? Let’s focus on this within the feedback.

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