monetizeyourcat:

juliamaoashdevatgasicia:

SEALAND DOESN’T HAVE ANY MEANS OF PRODUCTION FOR US TO OWN

…a longing by bourgeois capitalists like that one PayPal guy to return to a system of production based on land scarcity - an attempt by capitalism to graft itself onto a new feudalism.

Oh yeah, re-enchanted capitalist feudalism was transparently the appeal of cyberpunk right-accelerationism. (And the associated noir demimonde which made no pretense to resistance, but I guess that’s the “enchantment” part.)

Snow Crash obviously. Shadowrun (which was amazing worldbuilding tied to a system with an awful D6 fetish that left little margin between total success and total failure) had a pretty good backstory whereby a Supreme Court decision immunizing private security forces who had defended an infectious medical waste shipment from mistaken food rioters eventually metastasized into corporate sovereignty.

The corporations left a shell of formal democracy intact because “who really wants to bother themselves with garbage collection?” Well, the Mafia for one which was an oversight, but this was also a lore in which Suddenly Elves. (Really it was all just an excuse for rule-by-keiretsu because Japan Is The Future.)