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I don’t mean this as a threat, but as plain kinetic question. How do billionaires stay so safe with so many enemies? It’s a bit baffling to me. Security is fascinating to me.
In this present day, we're barely steps or even a half step away from having absolutely tyrannically-dictator type behaviors from billionaires. It's almost as bad as the Roman Emperors that were batshit crazy, and their own Praetorian Guard eventually took those motherfuckers out. It baffles me how we had Presidential assassination attempts as recently as the 80's in the US but wasting billionaires just isn't a thing. It's very amazing power structure.
Zuckerberg spends about $30 million per year on personal security, I would guess the rest of the billionaires do the same.
That's really modest too by comparison. Current presidents average around 1.5 billion per year give or take.
That seems high, according to this the cost to protect the entire trump family was $120 million:
https://time.com/4762234/congress-donald-trump-security-costs-trump-tower/
It's because people like this around themselves with a cadre of yes men. Apparently Elon is known to have a large group of Tesla and SpaceX groupies essentially. To use them to replace key positions at X.