• @bassomitron
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      2510 months ago

      Hahah, I think they’re implying that with their vast stores of wealth, they could spend billions on hiring assassins and/or mercenaries to take down the Russian government? Idk

        • @[email protected]
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          2210 months ago

          And so begins the corporate wars. Nation states are toppled and continents will be controlled by Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Facebook, and google who continue to war Alibaba Tencent and baidu for territory.

          • @bassomitron
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            410 months ago

            Haha right, I often think how it’s starting to feel like we’re entering the early years of the capitalist dystopian cyberpunk era.

            • bruhduh
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              210 months ago

              Google fourth corporate war on cyberpunk wiki

              • @bassomitron
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                210 months ago

                What’s crazy is if you read the monetary value of the biggest corps on the Cyberpunk wiki, we have corporations in real life that dwarf those numbers. Granted, Cyberpunk was written in the 80s, which had IBM as the richest corporation at the time worth around $130 billion (adjusted for inflation). Meanwhile, nowadays, Microsoft is worth over $3 trillion, Apple over $2.8 trillion, Saudi Aramco over $1.9 trillion, etc. Absolutely wild that even in the worst predictions by the Cyberpunk creator, it’s still a fraction of what reality turned out to be.

                • bruhduh
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                  210 months ago

                  Like analogy with kiroshi optics and bricked “cybereyes” in real life

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                  110 months ago

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