“This is what THEY want. To continue shackling us with death and taxes. The destruction of Rintexx is evidence of this. They wiped out a commercial breakthrough in stem cell technology that would have made death less certain and now THEY are mobilising to clamp down on any school of economic thought that has the potential to make taxation unnecessary.” -AITHEOS, ROOT//AITHEOS/STEM//9F77.SW32.PP#5.R7G5.%765.&C#S.5@#D.Y#*6.89B8.B!WE//glies.branch/4242
“The counterterrorism measures of the past were set up in a vain attempt to thwart a phantom or at best, a scattered enemy. The proverbial terrorist threat that was supposed to threaten our way of life dissipated as the global economic downturn let loose a different breed of bedlam and carnage.
Political terrorism never works; it only serves to galvanize your opponents to behave even worse.
Economical terrorism has proved different. It actually works. It has rendered anti-terrorism laws ineffectual and has frightened off even the most unscrupulous of media moguls. No one talks about it. No one dares do anything about it.”
Trixani
‘At which point will Meganat declare itself a sovereign state?’ – Goonsville
‘At a point when international competition laws make it impossible for Meganat to operate, the company will ultimately declare itself a sovereign state.’ – CYFERON
Continue reading “Meganat”
“Who came up with this system?” – Bubblehead43
“Which system? Legal slavery? The Government!” – Diktator_J
“There is no such thing. International law is clear, No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.” – Shadowbark
“Dude, human trafficking is the largest industry in the world today. Figures vary, but around 620 million people worldwide are officially classed as economic slaves.” Diktator_J
“It is still outlawed by every single government in the international community.” Shadowbark
“In Arctica, debt bondage is legal. A person becomes a slave to work off a debt, in which the length and nature of work is never defined, so it becomes a never-ending cycle with the debt being passed down to the children thereby enslaving offspring. That’s 80% of the world’s population.” – Diktator_J
“That does not define slavery. Free will is at play here.” – Shadowbark
“Contract slavery! A homeless, starving person these days can sell themselves into slavery. You work for some bastard corporation without pay, and in return, you get food and shelter. Where is the choice in that?” – Diktator_J
“Having one human being working for another in order to live is slavery. Shouldn’t basic necessities in life be free?” – Bubblehead43
“We have to work in order to get money in order to buy shelter and food to live. If we don’t work, we don’t get any money to buy food and we die.” Shadowbark
“We have the technology if we really wanted to.” – Bubblehead43
“Bubblehead, you’re a fucking idiot.” Shadowbark
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Continue reading “Shadowbark”
“The modern trend towards city-states during the past fifty years is mostly due to the demand for a simpler and broader trading system. It originated with the formation of an economic model that bypassed the hindrances of myriad free trade agreements.”
Frank Tucker – CEO of MercurEx, The_City_State ^3xtract0r^TopFeeder^^CORE
“Conventional economics is like rolling a boulder up a hill. Every time you stop to rest, it rolls back onto you. Binary economics is about rolling the damn boulder downhill.”
Frank Tucker – CEO of MercurEX, (GSCS:12222\panfeed\SKYROBOT\corporatist_manifesto.glog)
“Having the government against you is a bad thing. It all boils down to a matter of trust. How can you trust these short-term, career bureaucrats whose only goal is advancing into a position of influence, use this influence to benefit, and then retire handsomely? They promise the world but forget you the minute your usefulness as a political pawn ceases. They don’t really care about the individual. It isn’t their job to care.”
FRANK TUCKER – CEO of MercurEx >>02.64545.the_corporatist_manifesto^frank_tucker^mercurex^CORE
Writing science fiction gives an author the opportunity to have a go at predicting the future. For me, the best tool I always find helpful is this; in order to build a world in which to set the novel, you start by going back into history. ‘To see the future, one must look into the past’ and follow the trends. In the case of ‘A Hostile Takeover,’ I began by asking ‘What is a nation? A state? A country?’ and then went on to research different types of sovereign nations throughout history.
I followed the trends and discovered the future of the world’s political landscape is obvious and surprising. The one prediction that seems most definite among all the others is that the nation-states we live in today are not static, rigid institutions, but evolving, changing political creatures.
Continue reading “Supernations, Mega City-States and Virtual Countries”
“Suicide by leaping from a tall office block during times of recession is a myth spawning from the old century. After Octavo A. committed murder-suicide when he jumped to his death and skull crashed his former boss, an event he shared with a billion people to date, the practice has become the past time for fatalists, pessimists and miscreants alike.
At one point during the deepest part of the depression, around recession nadir seven, a suicide a day was purported to have occurred. Now when you look outside a window and see some poor devil flying down to zeroland, one can’t help but think, are the gangs now disguising their murders as splatterjobs.”
TRAVION, CAST23533XCT10_TRAVION^MOJOBLUE^^CORE
“This is why we have five internet platforms right now. When hacker/pirates created the Angry Tree Protocol it hamstrung the original Cobweb. Two secure, private networks emerged from the anarchy. One using optical technology, the other satellite-based, they tried to monetise information to the point of squeezing the average citizen out of the educational loop. Next thing you know, Episoft’s peer-to-peer system gives free access back to the people. Not as good as Definition+ as provided by Satnet and Ambercast, but I invested my client’s money in them anyway. Look at them now.”
James Tucker, CEO of MercurEx, james_tucker^mercurex^CORE
