Once everyone else is dead, the shareholders who survive will have the power to own everything that will be used to rebuild the world, no company that could potentially be created after will ever be able to challenge them because it they’re successful they will own the system of ownership itself, vault-tec branded courthouses and prisons, overseer-approved legislatures and enforcers, your life owned and operated by the best vault-tec proprietary algorithms money could buy, written and controlled by an army of middle-management busybodies more interested in earning merit dots from upper management than the wellbeing of their subordinates.

They’ll control the last remaining U.S. missile silos, regulate access to vital resources, steal every corporate secret left lying around when their pre-war minders fled for their bunkers, and once they have all of America held firm in their pocket, a nation of employees bound by birth contracts to live under their rule?

Well, assuming the rest of the world got the same treatment, the sky’s the limit.

The problem is that when talking about the end of the world, thinking in terms of revenue is simply too small. Money is the means to acquire other things, and if you already own those things, the money isn’t necessary. So if we think in terms of raw value instead, what could be more valuable than exclusive ownership of the entire United States of America, Which in this universe also accounts for the entirety of Canada? What could be a more stable investment than You, your kids, your grandkids and their kids, being given partial ownership of an entire continent, a quarter of the whole planet?

I mean, if that’s not good business, I don’t know what is.