I can’t wait to live in DowIndustrialRunoffVille, 3Mcancertowne, and Exxondumpsiteburgh… Oh wait we already do. Can you imagine how bad it would be if they had pure control and zero oversight or restrictions? The US is really sprinting headlong into the worst kind of dystopic hellscape.

Holy shit, it’s the Burbclaves from Snow Crash.

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People unfamiliar with this: See the previous thread about this from a few days ago as well: https://lemmy.world/comment/15538652

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.

Cyberpunk 2025

government officials ending every phrase with, “brought to you by carls jr” is getting more real of a likelihood all the time.

Isn’t this how RoboCop starts.

They’ve been trying to do this for years

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.

Now a Burbclave, that’s the place to live. A city-state with its own constitution, a border, laws, cops, everything.

https://chnm.gmu.edu/exploring/20thcentury/consumerism/pop_stephenson1.html

It’s weird how the hardcore wingnuts were constantly jabbering about “Big Tech” and making noises about “Hunter’s hard-drive laptop” just a few short years ago. They could never define this “Big Tech” other than to make hooting noises about how they were “censoring” the crazy right wing. They didn’t really know what they were going on about, but boy, they were mad about it. Because laptop.

Now they seem to be all-in with whatever the fuck “Big Tech” wants for them, because, what? They think it will own the libs? Just what the fuck do they think billionaires are going to do for the average redcap but put them out of work and yank any and all government services that will help them or their families?

They should absolutely do this because tech bros cannot do municipal government and they will spend years throwing all of their money into a nuclear powered bitcoin mining boondoggle with open sewage that produces nothing.

“Sold my soul to the company store.”