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This shit is the basis for like 12 different dystopian sci-fi novels.
When I read Snow Crash, I had a hard time getting into it because I though the idea of wholesale privatisation of government responsibilities and territories went a bit too far...
Tech bros really have a hard on for the Torment Nexus.
A lot of well-connected scions of wealth read that, along with Ayn Rand, and thought “fuck yeah”
These 10 percenters all think they will be Uncle Enzo and his pizza company while in reality they will be running low cost Rent-a-Copz outfits in rotted out strip malls in middle America when the real wealthy people crash them out of the system becoming untouchable ultra elites.
Yeah but be all get access to cool skateboards and 4' of rebar. 🙃