Business people ruling the world behind the scenes?

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6 hours ago, heavens-champion said:

Then why isn't chairman of the board synonymous with president or king? Why don't they have their own armies? Where are their police departments? Why aren't there terms like employee-citizen? 

 

Because the way they rule the world isn't that obvious of course...   They pay off all the politicians to do their bidding, they have almost all the money, and they are allowed to oppress the citizens of this country by out of control laissez-faire... I think it's safe to say they have a HUGE factor at least in the US.

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1 hour ago, Angus Delaney said:

 

Because the way they rule the world isn't that obvious of course...   

Excuse me if I like cyberpunk.

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1 minute ago, heavens-champion said:

Excuse me if I like cyberpunk.

Cyberpunk has nothing to do with a corporate-owned world?  

 

And why should the truth that the greedy, rich, and powerful rule over the world offend you?

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12 minutes ago, Angus Delaney said:

Cyberpunk has nothing to do with a corporate-owned world?  

 

And why should the truth that the greedy, rich, and powerful rule over the world offend you?

Well, yes. I'm just saying that in a lot of cyberpunk works, corporations are powerful enough to have military forces. Heck, even outside cyberpunk, there are megacorporations that are so powerful, they're basically countries (like in this old RPG called Mutant Chronicles).

And as for powerful people ruling the world... that's normal.

Edited October 1, 2019 by heavens-champion

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32 minutes ago, heavens-champion said:

And as for powerful people ruling the world... that's normal.

It is true, but that doesn't mean it's ethically right.

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Wouldn’t surprise me at all.