The end of production for the Nissan Versa means there are no new cars priced under $20,000 — a blow to some Americans who may find themselves priced out of the market.
The Disney+ life supscription is partnered with Starbucks, which is also partnered with Amazon Whole Foods and Trader Joes, and Verizon, and Subaru and GM.
The Netflix life supscription is partnered with Costco, Cox, and McDonalds, Chevy and Toyota.
The HBO Max life supscription is partnered with Walmart, ATT, Honda and Ford, … Cluck’in Bell, fucking whatever.
And then also some kind of alliance type structure with various regional or national landlords/land developers.
Like, uh, roughly the idea of a Japanese Keiretsu, or a Korean Chaebol, but kind of inverted, applied much more thoroughly to the consumer side, than to the finance/internal corporate structures.
So yeah, you just pick one of those three life subscription plans, they all have various tiers, etc, and you… well you rent or lease or finance basically everything.
Thats how the idea of a kind of Corporate Citizenship will start, something like that.
That’s my nightmare/prognostication.
It won’t be based around like, families of business that define your employment paths, as exists in much more uh, ‘classic’ cyberpunk, I guess.
It’ll be oriented around consumption, getting things, because… practically no one will even have ‘real’ jobs, having a career will become a defining marker of being born into an upper crust corpo elite class of some kind, the rest of us proles will just be shuffled between gig work, retail jobs, jail, prison, military, etc.
Yes, that’s true, but I meant more like uh…
The Disney+ life supscription is partnered with Starbucks, which is also partnered with Amazon Whole Foods and Trader Joes, and Verizon, and Subaru and GM.
The Netflix life supscription is partnered with Costco, Cox, and McDonalds, Chevy and Toyota.
The HBO Max life supscription is partnered with Walmart, ATT, Honda and Ford, … Cluck’in Bell, fucking whatever.
And then also some kind of alliance type structure with various regional or national landlords/land developers.
Like, uh, roughly the idea of a Japanese Keiretsu, or a Korean Chaebol, but kind of inverted, applied much more thoroughly to the consumer side, than to the finance/internal corporate structures.
So yeah, you just pick one of those three life subscription plans, they all have various tiers, etc, and you… well you rent or lease or finance basically everything.
Thats how the idea of a kind of Corporate Citizenship will start, something like that.
That’s my nightmare/prognostication.
It won’t be based around like, families of business that define your employment paths, as exists in much more uh, ‘classic’ cyberpunk, I guess.
It’ll be oriented around consumption, getting things, because… practically no one will even have ‘real’ jobs, having a career will become a defining marker of being born into an upper crust corpo elite class of some kind, the rest of us proles will just be shuffled between gig work, retail jobs, jail, prison, military, etc.
I gotcha. Hell, we’ve been there before. The company towns essentially owned every aspect of the lives of the people that lived there.
Yep.
I guess maybe a less verbose way to say it would be:
Company towns, but…! Everything is computer!