• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      Oh this is even worse! Imagine if we transitioned to Nation Company states!? The United States of Apple…hey. We don’t gotta change anything…USA! USA!

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        There’s a reason why all the cyberpunk stories are about corporatacracies and/or spacefaring feudalist states running human society in the future. Life imitates art.

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        I don’t see the problem, it will be just like the days of company towns, except way bigger, they will control the banks, hospitals, prisons and military, and you cannot leave unless they let you!

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        Probably on the cards at some point when a company exceeds the gdp of a country.

        It’s essentially an asset purchase

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      No. I will not live in a Shadowrun campaign without the dragons and orcs to keep me company. Just no.

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      Thought this was Ludacris so I googled the Russian gdp and google networth and yeah google could legitimately bye Russia with some change.

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        They need Nuclear power plants and think of the passive cooling of a Siberian data=centre!