Big Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would have
Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren't straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic
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Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren't straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic
Now we just need companies to have their own militaries and then for someone to nuke one of their towers. We'd have the whole nine yards.
"He burned down half the city just to prove he was right and burned the other half just for fun."
Source? Please.
Cyberpunk
Thanks.
Does killing union activists on the behalf of Coca-Cola count?
The United Fruit Company aka Chiquita Brands International Sàrl asking the CIA to overthrow the Guatemala government, also count?
Edit: Fix links
No thanks.
Too bad. There's no chance this doesn't happen after the agricultural collapse. Well, the first bit, anyway.
I could absolutely see a not-too-distant future where competitors of megacorps have their assets attacked by the government’s military.
This has already happened many times. It’s just that those “competitors” are usually referred to as “ordinary people.”
Sad upvote.
I was thinking more as a mundane mechanism to gain market share though, not necessarily punishment or collateral damage.
…but I guess it applies even then. Sigh.
Wake up Samurai...
Amazon is a standing military or armed navy away from beating the all-time high score.