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January 22, 2014 at 5:43 pm #610248
wakefloodParticipantEver wonder how many people the super-secret, orbiting space colony will support? (You know, the one currently being developed in a joint venture between US/China/Saudia Arabia/Qatar.)
The answer is 85 initially. How did I get that estimate? No, I didn’t have an engineer break security like Bob Lazar in Area 51. No, it was published here in this article:
“Oxfam’s “Working For The Few” report looked at Credit Suisse’s “Global Wealth Report 2013” and Forbes’ list of the world’s billionaires from 2013 to conclude that 1 percent of the global population controls half of the world’s wealth.
The report also found that the world’s 85 richest people own the same amount as the bottom half of the entire global population.”
Of course, those 85 are just the first phase. The second phase will sustain the remaining 1%.
I’m hoping they’ll still need a few man-servants to keep the robots programmed and working correctly up there. Fingers crossed for that lottery!!
January 22, 2014 at 5:49 pm #803541
VBDParticipantJanuary 22, 2014 at 5:56 pm #803542
wakefloodParticipantVBD, you didn’t realize that the super rich were working with the government/military to build an orbiting space colony to support them after the apocalypse down here on terra firma?? ;-)
Well, they have spared no expense to keep it secret so I can’t blame you.
It was a cynical comment on the absurdity of the wealth inequality described in the article. If you had that much money, why WOULD you live down with the peasants once we’ve tanked the planet?
January 22, 2014 at 8:05 pm #803543
seaopgalParticipantIsn’t that a Matt Damon movie? (Or am I thinking of The 1% Solution, starring Robert Downey, Jr.?)
Personally, I think we might be better off if the 1% did just shuffle off to Elysium …
January 22, 2014 at 8:50 pm #803544
SmittyParticipant“Personally, I think we might be better off if the 1% did just shuffle off to Elysium … ‘
They should take all that money wasting away under their mattresses with them too!
January 22, 2014 at 9:19 pm #803545
wakefloodParticipantWonder how much you have to tip a robot waitress in Elysium??
January 22, 2014 at 11:45 pm #803546
seaopgalParticipant“They should take all that money wasting away under their mattresses with them too!”
Mattresses, off-shore tax shelters, Swiss banks, hedge funds, resource-depleting-carbon-polluting-human-exploiting corporations … whatever.
January 23, 2014 at 12:33 am #803547
squareeyesParticipantThat plan seems reminiscent of TOS Star Trek episode “The Cloud Minders”.
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