I didn't think I would live to see Cyberpunk become a reality. Or the return of Company Towns. Either one sounds preposterous.
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We’re not even getting the cool parts of cyberpunk like cybernetic limbs.
Freedom Cities is a branding exercise in the same tradition as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The more you have to advertise how free a society is, the less free it tends to be in practice.
There we go. Now we're looking at the Star Trek dystopia that we expected last year.
Just a bit delayed
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So like a town, owned by a company, like some sort of company town, but now with freedom! The freedom to live in a house owned by your employer, shop at a store owned by your employer, and you have to use special money that your employer pays you in. Yup, nothing says freedom more the having incredibly limited choices.
Well yeah. They've clearly wanted to bring company towns back for a while. Everyone from Disney to Amazon does their best to recreate them already and there's been no change in the profit incentive since the last time they were fully legal.
I do feel like the tech guys have forgotten why we agreed to give workers rights though...
Oh well.
This is exactly what Elon Musk and Peter Thiel want, to own city states as kings using neo-feudalism.
See:
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I can't wait to live in DowIndustrialRunoffVille, 3Mcancertowne, and Exxondumpsiteburgh.... Oh wait we already do. Can you imagine how bad it would be if they had pure control and zero oversight or restrictions? The US is really sprinting headlong into the worst kind of dystopic hellscape.
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Is Elon so mad that he wasn't in the game Cyberpunk 2077 but Grimes was, and wants to spitefully create his own Night City and Arasaka tower in real life to have his little fantasy?
The French had an answer to "Let them eat cake."
Me thinks the tech-bros won't like that answer very much.
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Yeah, this would be bad for everyone. Even the corps. I don't think any CEO actually wants to become an actual real life general.
Because there would be wars from these 'independent' corps.
That won't fly because tech's innovativeness is already declining.
And it'll get worse as the skilled workers flee the US.
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Dystopian AF.
One of these ghouls that I rarely hear brought up in these discussions is Steve Jobs’ widow, Laurene Powell Jobs. I believe that she is involved in the effort to build something like this in Solano County, California. She’s supposed to be a big Democratic Party supporter, so I suspect that the effort to create corporate cities is not an exclusively Republican project. I wish there was more reporting on her.
The US Democratic party is also a neoliberal right-wing party, just a bit more moderate.
Snow Crash anyone?
Is anybody actually watching Severance? An underlying theme of the last episode was that this kind of crap specifically is a bad idea.
Frickin’ wild that Apple TV+ puts it out at all, honestly…