{"id":13475,"date":"2024-02-25T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T10:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/25\/the-latest-billionaire-trend-doomsday-bunkers-with-a-flammable-moat\/"},"modified":"2024-02-25T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T10:37:27","slug":"the-latest-billionaire-trend-doomsday-bunkers-with-a-flammable-moat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/25\/the-latest-billionaire-trend-doomsday-bunkers-with-a-flammable-moat\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest billionaire trend? Doomsday bunkers with a flammable moat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is all this bunker-building a sign the 1% know something we don\u2019t and are preparing for end times?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s your plan for the apocalypse? I\u2019ll tell you what mine is: death. I am not really built for battle \u2013 I need five cups of coffee just to function and I have terrible allergies. My body can\u2019t even handle pollen, it\u2019s not going to do well with nuclear war. Plus, even if I was hardier \u2013 who wants to live a few extra months in a completely destroyed world?<\/p>\n<p>Billionaires. Billionaires do. As you have probably noticed bunkers have become the ultimate status symbol among the 1%. The bunker craze, accelerated by the pandemic, has been going on for a while now. However I\u2019m starting to think that bunker-fever is getting out of hand. The rich are no longer content with run-of-the-mill $500,000 survival shelters, they\u2019re taking things to the next level: a development which should probably worry us all.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/feb\/25\/billionaire-doomsday-bunkers-end-times\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8c9c149b62c5ceb0ff748856cc72f28cdd39faac\/0_0_2578_1547\/master\/2578.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5bc7e5a7f4984ccfe909fe653d7364e0\" title=\"The latest billionaire trend? Doomsday bunkers with a flammable moat\" \/>Is all this bunker-building a sign the 1% know something we don\u2019t and are preparing for end times?<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s your plan for the apocalypse? I\u2019ll tell you what mine is: death. I am not really built for battle \u2013 I need five cups of coffee just to function and I have terrible allergies. My body can\u2019t even handle pollen, it\u2019s not going to do well with nuclear war. Plus, even if I was hardier \u2013 who wants to live a few extra months in a completely destroyed world?<br \/>\nBillionaires. Billionaires do. As you have probably noticed bunkers have become the ultimate status symbol among the 1%. The bunker craze, accelerated by the pandemic, has been going on for a while now. However I\u2019m starting to think that bunker-fever is getting out of hand. The rich are no longer content with run-of-the-mill $500,000 survival shelters, they\u2019re taking things to the next level: a development which should probably worry us all. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is all this bunker-building a sign the 1% know something we don\u2019t and are preparing for end times? What\u2019s your plan for the apocalypse? I\u2019ll tell you what mine is: death. I am not really built for battle \u2013 I need five cups of coffee just to function and I have terrible allergies. My body &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/25\/the-latest-billionaire-trend-doomsday-bunkers-with-a-flammable-moat\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The latest billionaire trend? Doomsday bunkers with a flammable moat<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}