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.

[–] zeerooth@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] crashez@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I've translated their marketing and greenwashing shite for a while and hated every word. They are 100% dystopian.

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