Told you so

2025-10-26

Intel is in, and it’s dire.

I told you so. This is what happens when you let the seething masses take control.

GDP is now below 17th century levels, discipline is a faraway concept lost to the annals of history, people stopped respecting their better, instead opting to submit to the inferiors. There is no more military, no more prisons, nothing that can be called “judiciary” or “law”. All the resources were diverted to prop up a disgusting welfare of the masses. A society completely contrary to all the natural laws of economy.

They even made the trade of gold illegal!

This is why I took so much time before withdrawing to my secure bunker. I knew that without the iron hand of enlightened entrepreneurs, society would collapse. I was willing to put my assets at risk to steer the ship of humanity in the right direction. But ultimately I couldn’t do anything and had to withdraw.

The plan was simple: withdraw, wait for social order to collapse, humanity to split into isolated clans. The people roaming and fighting over the last crumbs of civilization. I would come out of my bunker, with gold and guns, recreate society and order from scratch, take over a clan, then the surrounding ones, pick up the right entrepreneurs, teach the correct way of trading, taking over the world.

Those were the sweet dreams of 20th century authors, but I learned at my expenses that scifi novels aren’t a guide of the future. The revelation shocked me. I could only come to the conclusion Asimov was nonsense drivel.

Instead, something wholly different happened.

Well, first, let me tell you how bad the withdrawal went. I had a team of 10 agents and 19 young women. Specifically picked for their high skill, loyalty and superior gene pool, they were to come with me in the bunker, together we would analyze and plan for the hostile takeover. And prepare the next generation of rulers of the world.

This went miserably, I sent the rallying call, and no one what-so-ever showed up. I was the only one. I paid all of them soooo much, and they ignored me. All the personality tests were unanimous: Those were the most aligned and loyal servitors the earth could produce, yet they didn’t come. Incredible. Thankfully, the bunker was the best money could buy. It gave me complete control over everything (in the off chance my servitors weren’t as loyal as needed). Thankfully, the corollary was that it was completely autonomous, and I could live without the help of anyone.

The bunker was in a network of communication with other billionaire withdrawal bunkers all over the world. What a fucking waste. Somehow my situation ended up being the most wishable. All the other billionaires, they either got guillotined on their way, bombed in their private jets, betrayed by their agents, or simply gave themselves to the mad mob.

I suspect there are other survivors to the great upheaval, but I certainly can’t contact them.

Still, I have direct connection to spy satellites, autonomous cameras, satellite dishes to eavesdrop all world communication. One must first know the battlefield before engaging into it.

At first, everything went as one could expect: The Western governments collapsed on themselves, global trade stopped, multinationals stopped producing, because without governments to protect their assets, there was not much use in producing them.

But something really weird happened then. Soldiers stopped shooting at each other, they just came home. The military industry stopped from one day to another. No nuclear warheads were launched (!!!) somehow the nuclear numbers were kept secret.

People didn’t start dying in droves. At first, they ate from the reserves and locally produced goods. Then, as the global trade of fertilizers collapsed, the only logical next step would have been a collapse of food production, upheaval and chaos. But instead, what happens, no one could have predicted: people shifted. The commodity traders became commodity producers. They had the skills to predict the horrors to come. But instead of looking for themselves, they decided to join force with others. They learned about agronomy, against all sense and decency, they went to the field. Indeed, in theory, more hands in the field does compensate for the loss of fertilizer productivity.

Even without a government, a crisis system of rationing was put in place. Far from collapsing, the digital infrastructure was repurposed to keep everyone up to date. No police, yet rations perfectly respected. As if everyone had a little Stalin in their head, controlling their thought and forcing them to help others.

Without international trade (half of which is moving around oil and gas), all the good source of energy were unavailable, surely it would cause a crisis.

But here again, the effect was completely paradoxal. All the recently built AI data centers running on gas stopped working, yet no one cared. All airplanes were grounded, yet no one cared. Fighter jets, carriers, tanks, they all had empty tanks.

Yet. No. One. Cared.

It didn’t stop them. The lights, the hospitals, everything was already secured by local electric production and storage. There were some difficulties, but they overcame them.

The most humiliating was the takeover of the digital infrastructure. I hated it. All our corporate data. Be it data we kept on our employees, customers, meeting notes. Everyone could inspect the private archives of the titans of the industry, of the great multinationals. All our communications laid bare.

They misinterpreted our deals and discussions, as “collusion” (where it was just pure economic rationality, since, of course, by definition, rich people can’t be wrong) I hate them. They even named it “capitalism”, they said openly that they hated capitalism. So much progress on the spirit of man, erased overnight. Back to 1917.

They took our trade secrets and shared them widely, our best engineers, debasing themselves, by touring the world teaching their hard-earned knowledge, with only food and bed as repayment.

No one to enforce copyright or patent laws. Against all economic rationality, labs popped up, in Africa, all over the world, ran by incompetent locals, producing vaccines, medication, for cheap, without paying anyone for it, and distributing them, without even asking for money, only respect and free food.

And I was here, in my bunker, looking at the bulletins. I couldn’t believe it. Yet, their propaganda was corroborated by my spy satellites. I started to think they somehow hacked through them to feed me bullshit. But that wasn’t possible.

That was only the first few years, the transition. Not content from taking away the satisfaction of knowing they were helpless without me, they went further.

God bless my little ass cheeks. I hate to use this word in this context, I’ll need to take a mint after. But I can’t but admit that they innovated. Innovated at a rate never seen in the 21th century.

Somehow, they found new ways of sharing information. They found new ways of producing and distributing food. Apparently more tasty, more nutritious, more resilient (I wouldn’t know, I only have the seeds I came here with). They reorganized society. Almost all economic activity is now welfare for the ones who contribute the less to society. If I were at the helm, those people would be in jail, not cajoled.

Lifespans increased. I repeat this: global life expectancy increased. And I can’t find any proof of the contrary and it drives me up the fucking wall. Somehow, they produce less food, yet live longer, is there any sense to that?

They even reintroduced global exchange. Or a hippie masquerade of one, should I say.

For one, they have quotas on trade value. The circulation of gold is strictly limited to a few grams per person. Only “useful” (whatever that means to those lunatics, certainly not profit) things may be moved from one place to another. I’ll admit, there are still some sensible high volume trade, on fucking trains. Like the whole network is just kept up for the perverse pleasure of sexual degenerates.

The last few years, they keep broadcasting about the plan of building new nuclear power plants (WTF, even the hippies do nuclear power now?) they say it could put to use all the nuclear waste of my times.

They replaced cars and trucks with weird giant bicycles, somehow it works? They stopped building new houses. Yet, apparently, they never have any housing shortage. It seems all my property is now occupied by degenerates, all my flower garden and golf courses turned into turnip fields. I hate turnips.

No more respect for my culture. They still broadcast traditional ceremonies: cow fights, Schwingen, Alpen horns. But I can’t look at it: men in dirndl, women fighting men in the sawdust. Decorated tennis balls on the cow horns.

This is not culture, it’s pure degeneration and corruption. (though to be fair, I’m partial to that new bikini hornussen fad)

So, I thought, with the West finally crumbling because of the rot in its foundations, true efficient powers could take over. But nay, Russia simply doesn’t exist anymore. And China did nothing to discipline the rest of the world. Instead, they kept dishing out solar panel for basically free.

I though: finally, get rid of autocracy and democracy, leave place for true competency and efficiency of market allocation. But my ass! As I said, no more multinationals, all of them blew up. And no one around to build up new ones. Incredible. People still talked to each other beyond the borders, people still travel about, but no one was interested in trade. Insane. Go to hell Ricardo.

Oh, they found a cure to every venereal disease, now everyone fuck all the time. Banging is the new hand shaking. It’s insane, they have a pill for curing cancer, and they are giving it away for free.

No more governments, yet, I never saw such a powerful society. No more economy, yet I never saw so much wealth. Much more cultural diversity, yet I never saw my culture so widely celebrated. No more profit, yet I never saw so much innovation.

I hate it, it’s so wrong. What’s the point of wealth, technology, culture, if it’s not for me to control everyone else?

I’m waiting for them to come, to try to kill me, gas me, anything! I know they know I exist. My bunker is impenetrable, I prepared everything. I’m waiting for it, I want it, there is nothing else on earth that I care about. Let them obsess over me, let me show them how powerful I am, let them waste energy, effort, resources on me. I only live for that, this is what defines me as a man: how much others are forced to spend to handle me. This is the definition of power.

But no, they don’t care, they let me be. To them, I’m nothing, not even a minor annoyance.

This is what I hate the most. Them: they are just happy and enjoying life. Me: I’m just jealous.