argumate:

argumate:

I guess the other cyberpunk idea is that corporate power would overtake state power but that really hasn’t happened, I mean they might lobby and coopt each other in various ways but it’s a complex symbiotic relationship rather than the state withering away.

collapsedsquid said: Nobody wants to take responsibility for shit

two dudes repeatedly teleporting behind each other saying “I’m afraid this isn’t my department, kid”

The Shadowrun answer was “the corporations left the rump governments around, ‘cause who wants to deal with garbage collection?”, which I accepted until I realized the answer was “The Mafia, which absolutely leveraged itself out from that unsexy bottleneck”