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Pohl and Kornbluth in 1952 wrote "The Space Merchants" - "a novel of the future when advertising agencies take over." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_M
by eesmith 1y ago
Pohl and Kornbluth in 1952 wrote "The Space Merchants" - "a novel of the future when advertising agencies take over." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants
- 1oooqooq 1y agoyou will like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Government https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Government also, the premise of the entire lore of shadow run, is corporations building armies and seeing they can get away with it and then just doubling down. but back to reality... everyone would buy stock of the ad-dystopia and since now their retirement is tired to it they will just normalize and promote it. just like today.
- eesmith 1y agoI did read it, but the books I read when I was a teen still learning the world sit deeper in me than something I read in my 30s. I don't think the last-name-is-the-company adapts well to the so-called "gig economy" where employment is structured as supposedly independent contractors, who in turn can be working for multiple organizations at the same time. "Corporations building armies", etc. describes the Dutch East India Company pretty well, yes? As I get now into my 50s, that goal seems more and more an intrinsic part of limited-liability joint-stock companies.