There is no safety. No matter how wealthy you are, your house can be destroyed. No matter how much you diversify your portfolio, the economy could crash and send you back to square one. No matter what private army you pay, forces beyond your control can crush you like a bug.

Humans do not rule the world, and under capitalism, we don't even rule ourselves. We're ruled by profit motives more than any rich individual. No matter how much Musk or Trump try to play king, they're merely mortals riding the wave of economics and politics. We have no real gods, only chaos; no real masters, only thugs and bullies

[–] spider@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 month ago

No matter how wealthy you are, your house can be destroyed.

AND...

(from USA Today)

California had a home insurance crisis before the LA fires. It's only going to get worse.

The impact of the catastrophic wildfires could drive up already sky-high premiums and prompt a new wave of private insurers dropping policies or declining to write new ones – and not just in the LA area.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

The wealthy can't hide from the Children of Kali.

[–] spider@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But we need to get those egg prices down!

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

At the moment, I’m beginning to think that the best we can do is both, it might be to late for an either/or situation

[–] Blum0108@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Though I'm not sure how slow the apocalypse will be.

[–] reminiscensdeus@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

You say the whole world's ending, honey, it already did

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Should have paved over those mountains.

Can't have a fire if the landscape is one continuous piece of asphalt.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Doesn't asphalt burn?

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

I might be wrong in this. My understanding is that it is flammable, but not when it's "solid" if that makes sense. That a fire would have to be on it and burning hot enough for long enough to start melting the tar then that could burn. But the asphalt itself isn't likely to just catch fire from a lighting strike or something and just continue to burn.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

First it melts, but it's made up of very long hydrocarbons, so... probably?

[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

there is a 3rd way: a short, quick apocalypse. like nuclear war

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

There is, but the profits aren't as high as a slow apocalypse.

[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Slow apocalypse it is then!

[–] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

The thing about cancer is that it will eventually kill itself. It destroys the environment it lives in until it becomes uninhabitable, killing both the host environment and the cancer itself.

So, the cancer is already going to die, it's only a matter of if it takes us with it or not. The ONLY option for survival is to kill it before it kills us. There is no siding with cancer and hoping you won't be affected.

(Capitalism is the cancer, in case mods get nervous)