Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren’t straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic

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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.

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“He burned down half the city just to prove he was right and burned the other half just for fun.”

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Source? Please.

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He burned down half the city just to prove he was right and burned the other half just for fun.

Cyberpunk

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No thanks.

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Too bad. There’s no chance this doesn’t happen after the agricultural collapse. Well, the first bit, anyway.

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I could absolutely see a not-too-distant future where competitors of megacorps have their assets attacked by the government’s military.

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This has already happened many times. It’s just that those “competitors” are usually referred to as “ordinary people.”

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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.

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You should snopes check that one. They did acquire non working ships as payment, but they scrapped em. What you said is technically correct, but oversells it.

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6 points

Wake up Samurai…

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Amazon is a standing military or armed navy away from beating the all-time high score.

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