Comment by actionfromafar
3 years ago
There's a special kind of delusion easily afflicted by successful people - that because they were so successful, it was because they are so much better. Therefore they will easily believe they will come out on top also in societal collapse. I think such reasoning is behind many super-expensive bug out plans with fortified villas and bunkers.
How many successful people are building bunkers? Isn't that just a pasttime of the very wealthy? There are a whole lot of regular successful people in this world that aren't building out doomsday scenarios in their spare time.
And I'd argue that for the most part these normal successful people are generally justified in thinking they are successful on the merits. Luck has a role, but so does grit.
Most aren’t building bunkers. I just took that as a colourful illustration of how success can skew your perception of reality. This is not even necessarily related to if the success is on their merits or not. I think one can fall into this trap regardless of how one got there.
Yeah those bunker wont belong to them if things go to shit at best they will belong to their now former bodyguard.