Why do tech CEOs sound like doomsday cult leaders?

Because that's what they want to sell. The doomsday

If you buy a bunker, it seems more sane to justify it.

Hope? Hope doesn't need a bunker.

Because they stopped selling products and started selling ideas. It's easier to get people bought into an idea than it is a product that may or may not be finished.

The next step in the pitch is: we can shut it down, but doing so will involve large capital costs and stranded costs that we did not anticipate. Make us whole for those costs and we will shut it down. They have been watching how the electric utilities have handled the political winds slamming back and forth: coal yes, coal no, coal yes.

They're both typically narcissists.

There is a funny scene in doctor Strangelove were they talk about riding out the great reset in caves with their own harems to repopulate the world.

Because they're doomsday cult leaders?

https://archive.ph/d52zq

because they need regulatory capture in the face of token vendor commoditization and the best way to get American capitulation is through fear of the unknown and not understood