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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.
"He burned down half the city just to prove he was right and burned the other half just for fun."
Source? Please.
Cyberpunk
Thanks.
No thanks.
Too bad. There's no chance this doesn't happen after the agricultural collapse. Well, the first bit, anyway.
Does killing union activists on the behalf of Coca-Cola count?
The United Fruit Company aka Chiquita Brands International Sàrl asking the CIA to overthrow the Guatemala government, also count?
Edit: Fix links
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.
I could absolutely see a not-too-distant future where competitors of megacorps have their assets attacked by the government’s military.
This has already happened many times. It’s just that those “competitors” are usually referred to as “ordinary people.”
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.
Wake up Samurai...
Amazon is a standing military or armed navy away from beating the all-time high score.