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[[File:Billionaire's Island - No-Cannibalism Guarantee, Room Service Vivisection.jpg|thumb|No-Cannibalism Guarantee, Room Service Vivisection. See ''[[Vivisection]]''.]]
[[File:Billionaire's_Island.jpg|thumb|Earliest known reference to Billionaire's Island.]]'''Billionaire's Island''' is an alleged "uncharted island" where a select groups of billionaires have prepared refuges against The Event.
[[File:Billionaire's_Island.jpg|thumb|Earliest known reference to Billionaire's Island.]]'''Billionaire's Island''' is an alleged "uncharted island" where a select groups of billionaires have prepared refuges against The Event.
== Hashtags ==
* <nowiki>#ExotemporalWealthManagement</nowiki>
* <nowiki>#RecklessBillionairesClub</nowiki>
== Commentary ==
=== Bob the Pfully Pfizered Pfridge ===
<blockquote>
Can the island have a large soup pot please? Big enough for six ... small horses. No, wait. Six ... large guinea pigs. We in NZ have an idea, er ... on the boil.
</blockquote>
* [https://twitter.com/BobLefridge/status/1408012596754542600 Pfully Pfizered Pfridge] @ Twitter (24 June 2021)


== In the News ==
== In the News ==


<gallery>
<gallery>
File:Guadalcanal Diary 2 - A Three Hour Tour.jpg|link=Guadalcanal Diary 2: A Three Hour Tour|'''''[[Guadalcanal Diary 2: A Three Hour Tour]]''''' is a World War II comedy war film about seven castaways who put aside their differences and fight with the United States Marines in the Battle of Guadalcanal.
File:Saruman House - event hosting.jpg|link=Saruman House|'''[[Saruman House]]''' is a fortress commissioned by the corrupt wizard Saruman, currently available for rent as a conference center or secret lair.
File:The useless poor are taking gilded bread from the mouths of billionaires.jpg|link=Gilded bread from the mouths of billionaires|The useless poor are taking '''[[gilded bread from the mouths of billionaires]]'''.
File:Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5.jpg|link=Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5|"'''[[Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5]]'''" is one of the so-called "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
File:City_of_Floating_Islands.jpg|link=City of Floating Islands|The '''[[City of Floating Islands]]''' is a city in [REDACTED] which requires that wealthy residents confine themselves to floating islands in the sky.
File:City_of_Floating_Islands.jpg|link=City of Floating Islands|The '''[[City of Floating Islands]]''' is a city in [REDACTED] which requires that wealthy residents confine themselves to floating islands in the sky.


File:Saruman House.jpg|link=Saruman House|'''[[Saruman House]]''' is a fortress commissioned by the corrupt wizard Saruman.
File:Saruman House.jpg|link=Saruman House|'''[[Saruman House]]''' is a fortress commissioned by the corrupt wizard Saruman.
File:How to Pump and Dump Your Planet Without Really Trying.jpg|link=How to Pump and Dump Your Planet Without Really Trying|'''''[[How to Pump and Dump Your Planet Without Really Trying]]''''' is a 1967/2021 American musical industrial training film based on the 1961 military program of the same name, which in turn was based on [REDACTED]'s 1952 Presidential Emergency Action Documents.
File:Almost nobody speaks Metric.jpg|link=The Metrics|'''''[[The Metrics]]''''' is an animated children's educational television series set on the artificial island of Springfield (near [[Billionaire's Island]]), and parodies American weights, measures, and the mathematical condition.
File:Bezos and Butt-Head.jpg|link=Bezos and Butt-Head|'''[[Bezos and Butt-Head]]''' is an American adult animated comedy television series about Bezos, a middle-aged billionaire, and Butt-Head, a teenage slacker characterized by his apathy, lack of intelligence, lowbrow humor, and failure to attract women.
File:Wound_in_Old_Wealth.jpg|link=Wound in Old Wealth|"'''[[Wound in Old Wealth]]'''" is an anagram of "'''What Would Lenin Do?'''".
File:Lick_the_Toad.jpg|link=Lick the Toad|'''[[Lick the Toad]]''' is a Carnevale Tenebre sideshow attraction which compels ticket-holders to lick drug-seeping toads.


File:Wealth_-_Sunken_gold_bars_per_day.jpg|link=Wealth|'''[[Wealth|How many gold bars per day can a man publicly dump into the sea and yet have money left over to pay naval mercenaries to guard the site 24 by 7 by 365 so that ''no one ever raises that gold''?]]'''
File:Wealth_-_Sunken_gold_bars_per_day.jpg|link=Wealth|'''[[Wealth|How many gold bars per day can a man publicly dump into the sea and yet have money left over to pay naval mercenaries to guard the site 24 by 7 by 365 so that ''no one ever raises that gold''?]]'''
File:Where NFT Has Gone Before.jpg|link=Where NFT Has Gone Before|"'''[[Where NFT Has Gone Before]]'''" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series ''Star Trek''.
File:Found a dime in the park (21 July 2023) 20230721_112733.jpg|link=Found a dime in the park (21 July 2023)|'''[[Found a dime in the park (21 July 2023)|Found a dime in the park]]'''.


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== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==


* [[Bezos and Butt-Head]]
* [[City of Floating Islands]]
* [[City of Floating Islands]]
* [[Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5]]
* [[Found a dime in the park (21 July 2023)]]
* [[Gilded bread from the mouths of billionaires]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
* ''[[Guadalcanal Diary 2: A Three Hour Tour]]''
* ''[[How to Pump and Dump Your Planet Without Really Trying]]''
* [[Lick the Toad]]
* [[Reckless Billionaire's Club]]
* [[Saruman House]]
* [[Saruman House]]
* ''[[The Metrics]]''
* ''[[Vivisection]]''
* [[Wealth]]
* [[Wealth]]
* [[Where NFT Has Gone Before]]
* [[Wound in Old Wealth]]


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
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== External links ==
== External links ==


* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1407999426807746561 Post] @ Twitter (24 June 2021)
* [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse] by Douglas Rushkoff @ The Guardian (4 September 2022) - Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences
** They started out innocuously and predictably enough. Bitcoin or ethereum? Virtual reality or augmented reality? Who will get quantum computing first, China or Google? Eventually, they edged into their real topic of concern: New Zealand or Alaska? Which region would be less affected by the coming climate crisis? It only got worse from there. Which was the greater threat: global warming or biological warfare? How long should one plan to be able to survive with no outside help? Should a shelter have its own air supply? What was the likelihood of groundwater contamination? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.
** This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader?
** The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Island Fantasy Island] @ Wikipedia
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTOB-tkekEM Fantasy Island 1978 - 1984 Opening and Closing Theme (With Snippet)] @ YouTube
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston_Howell_III Thurston Howell III] @ Wikipedia
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swk3wWcM4rA Gilligan's Island - The Howells' will] @ YouTube
 
=== Social media ===
 
* [https://x.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1838285444879982861 Post] @ Twitter (23 September 2024)
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1686029291467784192 Post] @ Twitter (31 July 2023)
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1456622432433881096 Post] @ Twitter (5 November 2021)
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1435630895403307008 Post] @ Twitter (8 September 2021) - with ''[[Vivisection]]'' - Hosted by Branson-Bezos-Musk, the Three-Headed Trillionaire
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1408001447736774658 Post] @ Twitter (24 June 2021)




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[[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Jim Backus (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Gilligan's Island (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Islands (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Money (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Ricardo Montalbán (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Television (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Vivisection (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Wealth (nonfiction)]]


[[Category:Islands]]
[[Category:Places]]
[[Category:Places]]
[[Category:Reckless Billionaires Club]]
[[Category:Television]]

Latest revision as of 12:36, 23 September 2024

No-Cannibalism Guarantee, Room Service Vivisection. See Vivisection.
Earliest known reference to Billionaire's Island.

Billionaire's Island is an alleged "uncharted island" where a select groups of billionaires have prepared refuges against The Event.

Hashtags

  • #ExotemporalWealthManagement
  • #RecklessBillionairesClub

Commentary

Bob the Pfully Pfizered Pfridge

Can the island have a large soup pot please? Big enough for six ... small horses. No, wait. Six ... large guinea pigs. We in NZ have an idea, er ... on the boil.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links

  • The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse by Douglas Rushkoff @ The Guardian (4 September 2022) - Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences
    • They started out innocuously and predictably enough. Bitcoin or ethereum? Virtual reality or augmented reality? Who will get quantum computing first, China or Google? Eventually, they edged into their real topic of concern: New Zealand or Alaska? Which region would be less affected by the coming climate crisis? It only got worse from there. Which was the greater threat: global warming or biological warfare? How long should one plan to be able to survive with no outside help? Should a shelter have its own air supply? What was the likelihood of groundwater contamination? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.
    • This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader?
    • The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.
  • Fantasy Island @ Wikipedia
  • Fantasy Island 1978 - 1984 Opening and Closing Theme (With Snippet) @ YouTube
  • Thurston Howell III @ Wikipedia
  • Gilligan's Island - The Howells' will @ YouTube

Social media

  • Post @ Twitter (23 September 2024)
  • Post @ Twitter (31 July 2023)
  • Post @ Twitter (5 November 2021)
  • Post @ Twitter (8 September 2021) - with Vivisection - Hosted by Branson-Bezos-Musk, the Three-Headed Trillionaire
  • Post @ Twitter (24 June 2021)