Cyberpunk Reality Check
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[edit] Is it Cyberpunk or Reality ?
Megacorps
The usage of Medias, Politics and Goverments to extend their profits
Methods:
- Salary that low, that the salary slave isn't able to get an economical freedom before he is near death; work shifts and conditions that exhaust that much, that it's nearly impossible to evolve the mind for free thoughts / other possibilities of living
- Laws to buy products
- Tax and Toll law with special product handling
- Overpriced Goverment Projects
- Threatening of unwilling Countries to buy their Products
- Usage of Banks to crash the economics of 3rd World Countries to get cheaper resources and production places.
- Resource Wars
- Private / Company Armies
Media
The most important task for medias is to make themself important
The production of media stars by defining them as those
Censored / Goverment and Company friendly reports
Politics
Are manipulated by Lobbyists e.g. Companies
Election falsification
using their security /armed sections and secret services against uncomfortable / free
- Citizens
- Medias
- Corporations
- Countries
Net
Possible Manipulations
- Data Records of nearly every Institution
- Water-, Energy-, Heating supply
- Traffic Control
- etc.
Art
New styles and methods move more and more into surrealism
Social
Authority figures are quicker to use force
Increasing gap between the rich and poor; weakening of middle-class
Most people believe the media blindly
Cybernetics
Artificial organs and sensorics
Modified animals for drone services
Connection of the nervous system with electronic components
Biosystem
Climate change
Population of Areas with more profitable Species
Extermination of Animal and Insect Species
Genetically engineered Crops that can't reproduce
Extermination of reproduceable Crops by the usage of Patents
Medical
Creation and spread of diseases
Production of medication for treatment and not for curing
Wealth as an indicator for lifespan
--Shirotsume 09:06, 28 July 2007 (PDT)
