A city run by a corporation is the opposite of a “freedom city”
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.
Yes, but it does follow republican naming convention. Right to work states are anything but, for example.
Just look at SpaceX‘s town. Pure dystopia.
The one where they stole the land from cards against humanity?
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.
If it’s in the name you know it’s the opposite like “Democratic People’s republic of Korea”
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 freedom when I do it and tyranny when you do it.”
In September of last year, the podcast Behind the Bastards did a two part series on right wing blogger Curtis Yarvin, his connections to Peter Theil, and his influence on JD Vance. I highly recommend these episodes for anyone who wants to know where this is all headed.
Yarvin has, for years, pushed the notion of RAGE (retire all government employees), and his dark enlightenment movement centers on dismantling democracy and installing a neo-feudalistic system of government in which oligarchs rule as kings.
This is not some crazy new proposal that will be ignored by the people in power. This is the endgame. The oligarchs and right wing fascists Trump has surrounded himself with have been pushing this for years, just waiting for their moment.
If you don’t think this is a big deal, then you probably won’t realize until it’s too late.
Thank goodness we had a corporate media that not also did nothing to instruct on this, but played lots of stupid bothsiderist games for the horse race.
Not to mention lots of so-called leftists telling Americans to either sit out or do a protest vote because something something Gaza, BidenSoOld and KamalaSameAsBiden.
Yeah I got called a bootlicker because of saying that business as usual was far better than the unmitigated disaster we are facing now. I hate being proven right.
Hey now, don’t you know that the biggest sin is agreeing with liberals? There’s practically no difference between liberals and fascists because I read somewhere that “if you scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds” and my takeaway from that was that liberals and fascists are literally identical and both sides are the same. I am very smart. (/s)
Those people never read Lenin’s “Left Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder” apparently.
Truuuue
If you don’t think this is a big deal, then you probably won’t realize until it’s too late.
American history in one sentence.
God Bless Robert Evans
Thanks for the heads up, I’ll give it a listen. I’ve been hearing about the network state since I saw someone link this here a few months ago.
This is the dumbest branding exercise ever. There are no additional “freedoms” that you can get in a corporate-run city versus a regular city; except that perhaps the corporation has more freedom to trounce upon the rights of the citizenry.
If the future that Curtis Yarvin and his type envision starts to shape up, we’re gonna need to go full, 100% anti-corporation to push back.
We should really be doing that regardless, the corporation has outlived its utility and has become a chain on the collective neck of humanity
The billionaires get the freedom for being the best Americans
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store
These zones would allow wealthy investors to write their own laws and set up their own governance structures which would be corporately controlled and wouldn’t involve a traditional bureaucracy.
Why do I read this as incel rape cities?
Do you want Night City? Because this is quite literally how you get Night City.
I’m starting to think that’s what they want.
Always has been. Cyberpunk (the genre) was a warning. We didn’t listen.
Time to become Johnny Silverhand then.
And isn’t Night City one of the better places to live there?
Or Rapture
Tech bros love to rename terrible shit from the past and call it an invention.
That’s all fElon has ever done.
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.
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.
Libertarians do not understand how society works.
Ah, corporate run cities?
“It’s a fine day, full of opportunity!”
“If it took more than one shot, you weren’t using a jakobs.“
“Hyperion would like to take this opportunity to say: cha-ching!”
“Anyone can live. Have the courage to die!”
“Just remember, you died doing what you loved! And what you were told to do!"
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.
government officials ending every phrase with, “brought to you by carls jr” is getting more real of a likelihood all the time.
I guarantee those execs think they will be building Star Trek / Federation level society. But the comment above is right, it will be Cyberpunk just with shittier technologies driven by “the invisible hand of the market” or some other drivel.
Oh they know exactly what kind of cities they want to build. The wealthy have been wanting their slaves back since 1865.
More people need to play BioShock to understand why this is a bad idea.
Or look at the history of company towns
Elon is literally a fan of Blade Runner. He just Identifies with the CEOs of megacorps rather than the suffering poor.
