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.
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!
Google buys Russia
Putin only wishes he could be bought out and become an American oligarch.
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.
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!
You laugh, but we’re getting closer and closer to this every day
It is de facto already the case, thanks to bad campaign finance laws.
Probably on the cards at some point when a company exceeds the gdp of a country.
It’s essentially an asset purchase
It’s much cheaper to buy the politicians than the whole country.
Yes, but most if not all countries in the world run on deficits. Not a good investment.
That might be an improvement over Putin.
30 second unskippable ad before an oligarch accidentally falls out of a window.
No. I will not live in a Shadowrun campaign without the dragons and orcs to keep me company. Just no.
Sorry bud, best RL can do for ya is kinda ok-ish VR. At least you can rock an 80s punk-glam style!
Thought this was Ludacris so I googled the Russian gdp and google networth and yeah google could legitimately bye Russia with some change.
They need Nuclear power plants and think of the passive cooling of a Siberian data=centre!
Just wait a while and I’ll be nickle. Althout Musk might be interested now.