Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Building A $100 Million Doomsday Compound In Hawaii
NY Post - Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building a sprawling $100 million Hawaii compound — complete with an underground bunker and its own food and energy sources — in a secret project suggesting the social media mogul is trying to conceal his doomsday preparations.
The Facebook founder’s complex called Koolau Ranch is already partially constructed and is shaping up to be one of the most expensive personal construction projects in modern history, according to a Wired investigation of property records and interviews with contractors.
The compound on Kauai island will consist of more than a dozen buildings with two central mansions that will be connected by a tunnel that leads to a 5,000-square-foot underground shelter with an escape hatch accessible via a ladder, Wired reported, citing building plans.
The property will house at least 30 bedrooms and 30 bathrooms and will also feature dottings of guest houses and a group of 11 “disk-shaped” treehouses joined together by rope bridges, according to the plans reviewed by the outlet.
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I guess if you have a certain amount of money, you prepare yourself for any situation. Zuckerberg probably doesn't actually think the world is going to end. But if you have a net worth of $118 billion dollars you might as well set yourself up with the most lavish, self-sufficient, disaster proof, dream home the world has ever seen. He should really be setting himself up with doomsday compounds across the world. You never know when or where a disaster will strike. He should have one in every continent, including Antarctica. On remote islands in every ocean. Maybe even a few underwater.
This strikes me as something Zuckerberg is simply doing out of boredom. He just convinced himself something terrible is about to happen so he can have a project to work on. I'd probably do that too if I were him. I would start making up all kinds of dumbass scenarios to prepare myself for.
"Just in case we learn tomorrow that cars give you cancer, I'm going to build a series of ziplines connecting my home to all essential businesses"
"I actually have a closet in my house full of giant clothes on the off chance I wake up one day and have doubled in size"
"I bought a garlic farm in case the world is taken over my Draculas"
Why the fuck not? But billionaires never spend their money in fun or satisfying ways (unless they're buying a sports team). Even Zuckerberg's $100M compound leaves much to be desired.
The compound on Kauai island will consist of more than a dozen buildings with two central mansions that will be connected by a tunnel that leads to a 5,000-square-foot underground shelter with an escape hatch accessible via a ladder, Wired reported, citing building plans.
The property will house at least 30 bedrooms and 30 bathrooms and will also feature dottings of guest houses and a group of 11 “disk-shaped” treehouses joined together by rope bridges, according to the plans reviewed by the outlet.
That's fine I guess. I like the treehouses connected by rope bridges like it's a level of Donkey Kong. That's fun. And it's got all of the boring important stuff like water tanks, pump system, food sources, sturdy walls, etc. But honestly, if Zuckerberg is just going to build one single doomsday compound, $100 million dollars is kind of light. Do you know how many $100 million dollars Zuckerberg has? 1,180 of them. If I'm building a potential forever home that I may go to and never leave, I'm dropping SEVERAL billion dollars. I'm building and fully staffing every chain restaurant you can think of. I'm hiring a police force and making them dress like Storm Troopers. I'm getting every single breed of dog. I'm importing other cool animals, and domesticating them so I can do things like ride around my compound on the back of a giraffe. I want series of Six Flags amusement parks, and enough stadiums and hotels so that I can move the entire NFL to my compound.
What Zuckerberg is building is cool and all if you're just looking to "survive", but he's going to get bored. The worst thing that could possibly happen is that the apocalypse hits and you have over $100B in the bank. Money is useless when you're the only people left on earth. That's how I know he doesn't really think the world is going to end. If he really thought the world was going to end, he would empty the bank.