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[โ€“] sommerset@thelemmy.club 11 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't understand this reference ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Very broadly and roughly, in Cyberpunk 2077, Militech is... more or less the entire US military industrial complex, but all consolidated / merged into one huge megacorp.

Like ... imagine if Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, General Motors, Ford, Colt, Smith & Wesson, Palantir, Anduril, Blackwater/Xi/Academi/Constellis, SpaceX, KBR...

... were all just subdivisions of one huge holding corporation.

And then they just had a SuperPAC, and a political party to go along with it.

...

A whole lot of the... actual world building of most good cyberpunk fiction is ... well, either the logical conclusion of neoliberal economic trends if you're cynical/realistic, or a horrific and grotesque nightmare exaggeration... if you're optimistic/a naive liberal.

Most people just see the fanciful body augmentations and super technologies and go 'wow, cool!' at that, though.

...

But anyway, a megacorp is basically just an Anglicized way of saying 'Keiretsu'; Japan's giant conglomerates of ... basically a family of manufacturers, service providers, and banks that all work with each other as a sort of intracorporate family, or feudal fiefdom.

Much (most?) early cyberpunk pretty directly made clear their model for a 'megacorp' was corporate Japan in the 80s.