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9 comments:
Aww, look at that! People still watch trids! How adorable. Seriously now, I'd do all my movie watching via simsense these days, if it weren't for the fact that I'm horribly paranoid and dislike being unaware of my surroundings for longer than a nanosecon (thank god for sleep regulators).
Went into the place just to check it out, and I have to say, not bad at all.
Absolute Zero™ is actually, honestly, zero pressure from the salespeople, while still being there and helpful, waiting for you to approach them. The only person that approached me talked about the Combat Cycle game I was watching on the latest Sony Tri-Terrion.
They found a cheaper price for said set, and not only did they knock the price down for me, they made a big show of having an "Emergency Situation", where they ran over to the display, grabbed the old price, BURNED IT (After temporarily shutting off the sprinkler systems), and put on a new price. Then that's it. Didn't even slap a "Lower than our Competition" price sticker like you see elsewhere. The one show, then done.
I did buy the Sony, but not for myself. Birthday present.
In spite of the bad rep most corps get in the Shadows and among the SINless, just about all of them are pleasant to interact with and rarely screw over their customers (on purpose). This is a vast improvement over the philosophy at the beginning of the century, so if you think you have it bad now, just think of it THEN! Hell, even most business practice in modern day is sound and vastly improved over that time period, in which Executives would sell out even the well being and existence of their company for a cool million or five.
Then again, between the massive SINless population and the accelerated ecological damage... the improvement is arguable.
With the corporations getting extraterritoriality they also got memories. It used to be that agile capital would simply pull out of any corporation that stopped turning a profit - which allowed many an executive to enrich himself by doubling this quarter's profits at the expense of the future. Reinvest the money elsewhere, set that on fire for a bonus, repeat.
Of course, now the corps have a life of their own. Executives who pull that find that the it is the corporation who have the last word - they'll just ice the self-enriching executive and reinvest the money in a new executive they think might show more loyalty.
Makes me wonder where the profits actually go.
Reinvestment, building and maintaining of infrastructure, health care for employees, security...
When the Corporations became extraterritorial, they became Governments, with all that entails. ALL that entails.
After all that is done, however, it goes into a pile for a "Whose Bigger?" contest.
I knew a guy who worked at one of these. He was hardly a friend. In fact, he was a grade-A moron. One day, they caught him failing to hack their local system to steal some money. They fired him, of course, but he's still alive and even living in Seattle, which is more than most places would have done.
Had they found much other tampering or had he succeeded, things where likely to have been different. All in all, though, I'm guessing it wasn't any of the draconian companies, like Aztechnology or (the more literal example) Saeder-Krupp.
Money (the poster above) was, ahem, on the money. The only difference between modern corps and the majority 20th century countries that sold "stock" (aka bonds) is that corps are run more like constitutional monarchies than democracies. There are mechanisms for legally ousting the tops execs, which are used more often than not, and typically results in an "exile" that never quite leaves the scene but usually stops being all that relevant in short order..
More a Plutocratic Democracy than a Constitutional Monarchy. The vote is handled by owning shares than by citizenship, so the more shares you have, the more your "Single" vote counts.
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