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OMG, this is golden. It's a race to the bottom. It ends up completely destroying states and replacing them with corporations.

• mark_l_watson 6y ago
  I like your comment, not sure if you are joking though. A few decades ago when I started reading William Gibson’s cyber punk sci-fi, I often wondered if the corporate run enclaves in his stories would anticipate real events.
  • zentiggr 6y ago
    Neal Stephenson - "Snow Crash". Even the U.S. Government is reduced to a "franchulate".
    • Cakez0r 6y ago
      If the police are defunded, I'd bet that private security companies would fill the void and we'd be well on our way to "Stephensonion" being the next "Orwellian"!