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Well, it looks like the 90% plus of wealth hoarding just got a whole lot more unstable. Machines will do everything and the jobless have nothing to do but sever power lines.

Is nuclear power safe from assault? I dunno. Visit Chernobyl and see.

If an even greater concentration of wealth is to lead to mass destruction/revolution, I advise a more even distribution.

Note to oligarchs: a post-apocalyptic world is no fun. Not even for you in your bunkers.

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If you are don’t station troop at nuclear facilities, then no they are not safe from assault.

It does not matter how many people you have against a sea of automated drone factories and billions of drones. The war against Ukraine is primarily a drone war

The buildings are hardened against damage, but the facilities are only surrounded by chainlink fence. A small group seize any power plant and force a shutdown.

Drones would be great for taking out substations.

> Note to oligarchs: a post-apocalyptic world is no fun. Not even for you in your bunkers.

It's amusing to me that oligarchs don't seem to understand that if the economy goes to hell, their private security forces will just leave (or worse!). What do they think they will pay salaries with? Bitcoin? Do they really think an army of robot dogs is going to protect them?

15 guns, and what do I get? [...] Sold my soul to the company habitat.

Warlords exist in the poorest of economies. They have made the calculation that they should hedge for collapse and attempt to establish themselves for that situation.

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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Do they really think an army of robot dogs is going to protect them?

Why would anyone think otherwise?

Because they knew Snow Crash was fiction?

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Rat_Things_(Snow_Crash)

its called universal basic income

its inevitable tbh

It's the choice from manna[0] all over again.

0: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

thank you for that read

Yeah, the first time I read it, it was a real eye-opener.

The power of science fiction!

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