Google co-founder Larry Page is a New Zealand resident, government says

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/06/google-co-founder-larry-page-is-a-new-zealand-resident-government-says

by unfunco • 5 years ago

38 29 5 years ago

There was an earlier article here discussing a senior Google employee working from New Zealand (who opposed WFH). Seems like NZ's on top spot on Googlers' lists.

adamnemecek• 5 years ago

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-val...

spoonjim4• 5 years ago

The global super wealthy think they can survive a complete societal breakdown in bunkers in New Zealand. I don’t know why they they think they’ll be able to keep those bunkers when the people who build them decide to take them back with their Army buddies.

krustyburger3• 5 years ago

By that logic, no medieval castle would have survived any period of tumult. But they often did, and I think a similar gameplan would apply. I think it would turn out some of the toughest “Army buddy” types would rather have themselves and their families inside the fortress with the lord (or equivalent) and would fight like hell against any wayward “Army buddies” who tried to storm the place.

newman555• 5 years ago

can’t they solve that problem with a bit of robotics and AI (i.e. unmanned defences)?

G3rn0ti• 5 years ago

„[New Zealand] best place to survive global societal collapse“

Well, until the next catastrophic earth quake takes place down there…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake

Overton-Window2• 5 years ago

Being bored to death is the more likely option.

istorical• 5 years ago

A lot of people in these comments will likely miss a lot of the relative value in NZ as a bunker-of-last-resort:

Factors:

1. Radioactive fallout patterns in a hot nuclear war between any of US, China, Russia, Europe. NZ has low target priority and wind driven fallout spread may be lower.

2. Spillover effects from climate-change driven mass human refugee migration (water and distance are an effective barrier from hundreds of millions of displaced people from Africa, South Asia, or Latin America who may be forced to flee areas that cannot grow food or which reach the wet bulb mark in temp+humidity).

3. Low population density relative to natural resources / nature / arable land.

4. Relatively high amounts of freshwater resources relative to population (and possible population post-refugee/migrants in an adverse war/climate scenario).

In the event that the proletariat rose up and demanded support from those in bunkers, the number of 'normies'/refugees that 'robber barons fled to NZ' would have to support is much lower than the number of revolutionary poor that could storm the Bastille in most other continents. The amount of 'bread and circuses' you need to supply to avoid ending like Versaille is cheaper. If you decide mercilessly to just kill any refugees / migrants in a post-apocalyptic scenario, you can do so while they are still in the water / on improvised rafts rather than defending an area on land.

Of course I may be wrong and am happy to be corrected on any of these points.

Overton-Window2• 5 years ago

The largest risk in such a scenario is a Sino invasion. NZ is incapable of defending itself without US assistance.

BrandoElFollito• 5 years ago

What's wrong with Versailles?

LargoLasskhyfv2• 5 years ago

Hm. Regarding the first part of your first point, I meanwhile have seen many different models, where this assumption doesn't seem to hold. May take a while, thus not so 'hot' anymore, but depending on the air currents it absolutely can happen.

Regarding the second part these would be a target if I had nukes to spare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waihopai_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangimoana_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_Cable

Because part of 'five eyes', etc.

2,3,4... Maybe, just a nice place to live, but with potential for 'big one' as in earthquake, not only in the northern part, but also along from southland up along the west coast, with fault lines reaching exactly in the regions where the 'deserterati' tend to settle :-)

So. Much meme there. We'll see. Or not.

shrug

edit: With 'nukes to spare' I meant as someone taking the the role of the 'red scare/yello perilo' in a risk like game.

jsnell• 5 years ago

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28073586

ksec• 5 years ago

Why is it flagged?

Google co-founder Larry Page is a New Zealand resident, government says

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