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    Did these guys play cyberpunk? Like that game pretty much embodies what these guys are asking for.

    • @[email protected]
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      Hey everyone, Chaz from Cool Sci-Fi Productions Brought to Life LLC here with an exciting announcement! Our team of dedicated overpaid engineers has finally finished our first working prototype of the famous Planetary Destruction Cannon from the cult-classic 1982 film “Do Not Build Planetary Destruction Cannons!”

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      I think Musk has talked about the game, and obviously every message was completely lost on him and his main takeaway was that “Arasaka is cool. I want to be that.”

      That is exactly what they want.

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      They would love that. That game is all about execs essentially being royalty. That’s like their wet dream.

    • lemonaz
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      Yep. It’s my go-to video explainer for “freedom cities” aka network states.

  • GuGu
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    We should finally eat the disgusting rich.

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    Welcome to Freedom City #35, Brought to you by Apple. We have a number of accommodations for our community. A gym where cyclists generate the power for their own homes while they also assemble iPhone 23s, Wage Slavery park where children can play in the “sand” boxes sorting out circuit board capacitors, and a wide variety of restaurants that serve delicious meals for as little as two whole day’s wages in Apple Bucks. (Note: all wages paid in Apple Bucks, which are invalid as currency outside of Freedom City #35). Work is from 6AM to 8PM, curfew at 10PM, strictly enforced by the Freedom Troops conveniently located on every block.

    🎵Freedom cities! Where nothing is free but the irony!🎵

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      Cities where they’d be free to do whatever they like? I see no lie. You’ve just been sold the idea that freedom was free. Turns out in the US it isn’t.

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        Freedom is one of those reverse concepts.

        Is the man living on the street more free than the man driving his BMW and living in suburbia. Maybe!

        There is always exclusivity within exclusivity, picture a Russian doll with the smallest doll, if you can get to it , being the most exclusive or in this case the most FREE person.

        Living in a Freedom city probably will be a lot less free than the rich think.

        They won’t be free to wear what they like or build what they like. They will have to conform.

        Anyway they will all probably end up fighting each other as one person’s freedom is another person’s annoyance.

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    43 months ago

    Sounds like how the CCP develops and employees its citizens. You live where you work and you can’t escape your bubble. “Hey honey, going to go shop at google to pick up milk and then go to google to get that bookshelf you wanted. I’ll be next to google if you need anything for your new garden.”

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    Dystopian AF.

    One of these ghouls that I rarely hear brought up in these discussions is Steve Jobs’ widow, Laurene Powell Jobs. I believe that she is involved in the effort to build something like this in Solano County, California. She’s supposed to be a big Democratic Party supporter, so I suspect that the effort to create corporate cities is not an exclusively Republican project. I wish there was more reporting on her.

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      The US Democratic party is also a neoliberal right-wing party, just a bit more moderate.