The article was satire fyi.
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O thank god, almost ate the onion
wdym by almost?
It was a blooming onion at least 👀
In Australia we call that "doing the Tony"
So we can't have Bezos / Musk compete for world king?
Don't forget about Dick Suckerberg
Barely.
Why is there a New Text Document under the N? Did someone use this meme as a desktop image? And then took a screenshot? Why?
I think the meme was made from a desktop screenshot, probably from an image search Great catch, I wouldn't have noticed had you not pointed it out!
It's satire at the moment, but look at so many scifi works that have mega-corporate states ruling the world. They're fiction now, but often times scifi is a bit of a look into a potential future ending up partially coming true. There's no doubt that big corporations do have political influence already for a while now, so it's just a step up to having them fully in charge, and no one will blink.
Just look at South Korea where Samsung's revenue is equal to a whopping 17% of the entire country's GDP, making them hold enormous power over politics, education, journalism and the legal system.
And before anyone thinks "who cares, they're just a phone/appliance company", one of the most advanced autonomous sentry guns ever developed, so much so that almost everything about it is still highly classified, was made by a company that was at the time a subsidiary of Samsung.
I've translated their marketing and greenwashing shite for a while and hated every word. They are 100% dystopian.
Imagine if 20 years ago you wrote a sci-fi story where people spend a most of their time staring into rectangular devices that sends information that corporate controlled AIs decided they should be seeing. After staring at these rectangles for too long, people become angry and paranoid. Sometimes hypnotized to the point where some people commit mass murder or try to destroy their own democratically elected government.
If you wrote that story 20 years ago it wouldn't be published because it would be too unbelievable. But here we are.
Not to say it's exactly the same plot, but Brave New World was published in 1932. Seems that writing too close to the near future is not great for sales, but far enough out and you've got a great novel, and readers will appreciate the vision and warnings it gives.
And then fall for the trap anyway.
The iPhone came out in 2007, about 16 years ago. Blackberries were popular, it wouldn't have been too much of a stretch. But 30 years ago? Yeah probably
They're not fiction, the USSR had and China has even a seat on the security council and state capitalist countries are megacorps pretty much by definition.
CHOAM incoming.
Basically OPEC.
The People's Republic of Walmart
Republic?
House Walton will hear of this treason against the Royal Family!
The joke is that there actually is a book with that name arguing for a centralized planed economy. The argument goes that in capitalism, actually everything is planed too so why not switch to democratically planed instead
i mean kinda
Satire now but honestly doesn't seem very far off, with how willing people are to give up their privacy to megacorps
Wasn't there recently a city in the us that wanted to give corporations the right to vote? Or was that satire too?
Not satire, but the City of London has done something similar for a while. The thought process is you might not "live" there but you use it's infastructure and facilities while at work. Giving the employees of the companies the right to vote within the city.
'For a while' is really underselling it. They do and can do what they do because they have been doing it since time immemorial or rather for at least 2000 years.
This would functionally just be "give the US 3 seats at the UN".
Excuse me? What the hell?
no fear
give amazon and facebook a seat on the un
jesus f*%!king christ
i'd rather give them a place to hang out: at the end of a noose.
let's go ahead and let companies have a standing military while we're at it :D
Corporatacracy here we come
The article—invented or not—states that they should be held accountable, too. I think that’s a step in the right direction.
Yeah that stood out to me. Although they don't need a seat at the table to be held accountable
Exactly, you dont need to be given more power for it to be taken away.
Hey, this sounds like every post-apocalyptic game I've ever played.
Jesus Christ
Uhh there isn’t a dependence on them. Their ambitions are myopic.
I'd rather drink paint
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