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Arwa Mahdawi

SHOCKING: The latest billionaire trend doomsday bunkers with a flammable moat - You Need To See This

A face of a man can be seen through a mesh screen
‘A famous quote in tech circles is often attributed to William Gibson: the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. That’s true of disaster as well.’ Photograph: Mark J Terrill/AP

What’s your plan for the apocalypse? I’ll tell you what mine is: death. I am not really built for battle – I need five cups of coffee just to function and I have terrible allergies. My body can’t even handle pollen, it’s not going to do well with nuclear war. Plus, even if I was hardier – who wants to live a few extra months in a completely destroyed world?

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’m 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’re taking things to the next level: a development which should probably worry us all.

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