Tech bros love to rename terrible shit from the past and call it an invention.
That’s all fElon has ever done.
Christ, why did we have to get the Shitty Dystopia versions from Snow Crash, Jennifer Government, and every Gibson novel, but none of the cool and fun shit like flying cars, off-planet living, and advanced medical/cybernetic tech.
Gonna have the corpo company town again. Instead of an online walled garden it’ll be a walled city with it’s own currency that gets traded at a steep loss if you try to go anyplace nicer. Keep you in your place.
The cool tech is why they want network states or ‘freedom cities’.
Unregulated biotech research is how
wethey get cybertech and biohacking. So oligarchs can outlive the rest of us.It’s all in their plans for the network state.
@tree_frog @RememberTheApollo_ high on their own supply, though. A lot of government regulation is there to make sure the plebs feel just happy *enough* that they don’t rise up. I’m not advocating anything, just to be clear, but if people have nothing to lose then they start… trying stuff. Wasn’t the final straw that started the French Revolution the price of bread?
Yeah, and the Great depression and the following new deal was largely about this too.
I just wish they would be honest with their naming schemes. Stop with the “freedom this” and “freedom that” nonsense. They don’t give a good goddam about freedom and we all know it. They are just trying to build “company towns” with touchscreens. We’ve already been down this road. You can slap all the lipstick you want on it, but it’s still a fucking pig.
Its spelled Freedumb now.
anyone ever played shadowrun, because that is the way we’re heading…
Without all the nice tech and the magic
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.
These tech libertarians never stop trying to make their own company towns.
Here was a recent failed attempt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidewalk_Toronto
Also this piece never gets old. https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertarian-police-department
This is one of my favorites:
A Libertarian Walks into a Bear
It would be funny if a billionaire shit ass wasn’t doing this exact thing on a national level.
You want Night City? This is how you get Night City…
And who is stupid enough to move there? Ffs
People with no choice, my friend.
Fair enough. When everything else is bought up, we would have little choice.
It’s odd how some people get wealthy and then want to start their own utopian fifedom. Rich guys were attempting this throughout the 19th century too.
A city run by a corporation is the opposite of a “freedom city”
Cyberpunk IRL
Honestly, the beauty of the game is the sheer irony of it all.
And I kinda wish those neo-kitsch high fashion Kevlar-lined clothing was real, because some of the Corpo drip in Cyberpunk looks cool as fuck.
“It’s freedom when I do it and tyranny when you do it.”
Just look at SpaceX‘s town. Pure dystopia.
The one where they stole the land from cards against humanity?
Yes, but it does follow republican naming convention. Right to work states are anything but, for example.
It’s freedom from government regulations, many of which stem from the last time we let companies set up their own towns. What could possibly go wrong?
Last time we got full scale shooting wars between workers and companies. If I’m putting on my optimist hat then I’d say at least we’ll get to shoot some rich folk.
I doubt they’ll be on the front lines. It’ll just be the poor shooting at each other. The only real solution is Luigi, until they’re scared enough to negotiate in good faith.
Oh for sure, but if it gets to the point where I need to fire my gun at somebody it’s definitely not going to be aimed at some low level corporate thug. That is, unless they’re standing between me and their boss.
they tried it with a town before, it dint work out.
It makes much more sense when you understand the differences between the Northern version of freedom vs. the Southern version of freedom. These asshats think of freedom as the freedom to rule over others.
It’s not the people living in the city that are the free ones. It’s the owners
If it’s in the name you know it’s the opposite like “Democratic People’s republic of Korea”
I didn’t think I would live to see Cyberpunk become a reality. Or the return of Company Towns. Either one sounds preposterous.
We’re not even getting the cool parts of cyberpunk like cybernetic limbs.
Cool. Let them.
Honestly some people like sucking corporate dick, I say let them. If they’re small cities it’s fine, more housing is what’s needed. That just relieves tension on housing and lowers the price for everyone.
You know what? They should approve it. Give all the MAGAts free homes there and they can all suck trumps dick their. Let the rest of us live in an actually productive and healthy society.
The problem is that they’re also tanking the economy. Many people won’t have the economic freedom to choose their employment.
Already, people don’t really work in Amazon warehouses because they want to piss in bottles.
If that free home is on Mars, sure.
Friendly reminder that company towns and company scrips are the industrial revolution’s take on micro transactions.
Well put
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