“The tax law that congressional Republicans and US President Donald Trump enacted last summer has proved to be a massive boon for Amazon, slashing the corporate behemoth’s 2025 tax bill even as its profits surged and it moved ahead with mass layoffs that have cost 30,000 workers their jobs since October.
“Citing a new securities filing, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Amazon’s “current US taxes, an accounting measure of taxes incurred last year, declined to $1.2 billion from $9 billion” while the company’s “pretax US profit increased by 44.5%, to $89.5 billion. On a cash basis, the company paid $2.8 billion in federal income taxes last year after paying more than $7 billion in each of the prior two years.””
There’s a reason these assholes feel like they need bunkers.
Their bunkers plans are mostly insane. Zuck has a bunker designed for him and like 100 staff. I don’t think he understands how the power dynamics are going to change once civilization ends and his money isn’t worth anything.
Easy, he just has to make an inner and an outer chamber, where most of the staff are kept in the outer chamber and only a handful of his most trusted individuals have access to him. He might even be able to make it so only robots can serve him in his inner cloister.
People really think these dudes haven’t thought it through? They’ve floated explosive collars for Pete’s sake…
Lol dude even the prison from Andor needs maintenance staff who aren’t prisoners to operate and fix shit. This model doesn’t work when prisoners and the prison are all there is.
An inner chamber in a bunker that’s only large enough for himself and his family is more of a residential scale rather than a commercial scale. He can let in one handyman at a time with relative safety. It’s not like he has to bring a whole maintenance crew into his sanctum to change the washers on his bathroom sink.
Fun fact: All bunkers have air vents somewhere on the surface.
And all bunkers have an entrance. Entrances that can be sealed with concrete and rebar, to turn bunkers into tombs.
You think they won’t have their servers set up to automate the oppression of the masses, with the top-level control servers housed inside their bunker, to keep the profits flowing even when they’re permanently sealed off fron the world?
They’re rich enough to automate the hydroponic farming under LED grow lights fertilized from their own shit. All they have to do is flush the toilet and the whole thing cycles for them in a closed loop. Reverse osmosis means they’ll never run out of drinking water, and their pelotons ensure they won’t waste away and perish.
Even sealing off the air vents, they might have enough houseplants in a greenhouse in their bunker to cycle enough oxygen for them to survive.
And if you say “well we can just destroy the servers outside their bunker to cut them off from the world!” Well, not if they’re housed in a compound guarded by security forces with have enough of a paycheck flowing in to guarantee their families won’t starve.
Let’s become tomb creators, and after a year, raiders.
Oh, I imagine they have supplies to last a year.
I say open them after 100-200y, make it a fun time capsule, then turn them into museums – “this is one of the places where we buried alive the biggest leeches in society after they constructed the most lavish palatial bunkers to hide in during a time of global turmoil!” – you can show people just what excess wealth to the point of detachment from society will drive a person to do, and what society will do in turn to them.
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