building and managing everything from luxury condos to slums.
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outfitting and deploying private military contractors.
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producing sex toys and robotic companions.
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providing private security services and leasing the forced labour of their private prisons.
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rocketry and asteroid mining.
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narco-subscriptions and health insurance.
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automated transportation and delivery.
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resource extraction and processing.
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cosmetic surgery and elective augmentation.
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financial innovations and failed state looting.
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patent trolling.
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telecommunications.
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sustainable energy monopolization.
D20
This megacorporation has been implicated in
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lethal human experimentation.
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chattel slavery.
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immense bribery and government corruption.
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sponsoring terrorists.
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collusion with foreign powers.
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trafficking children.
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uplifting animals to sapience to create workers without even the pretence of human rights.
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simulating full human consciousnesses to subject them to inhuman product and marketing tests.
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gene-tweaking populations with engineered retroviruses to make people better consumers.
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arming both sides of a culture war.
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ethnic cleansing.
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a far-reaching criminal conspiracy.
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sticking dissidents in a technologically-enabled hell on earth where they’re made to suffer well beyond the capacity of natural biology.
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dealing illegal recreational neuromods.
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research & development of potential existential threats.
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a scheme to regress civilization to a feudal serfdom model.
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mass-hacking archives to rewrite history to their liking.
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assassinations of individuals opposing their interests.
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backing gang leaders and warlords to create a power vacuum it could then fill.
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a catastrophic geoengineering project.
D20
However, nobody really cares about that because
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this megacorporation has a diverse board of directors and will never let you forget it.
2
this megacorporation has whistleblowers murdered.
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caring would negatively impact your career prospects.
4
the gigs this megacorporation offers are marginally better than their competitors’.
5
they’ll never have the power to do anything about it anyways.
6
caring about megacorporate crimes would seem like communism, and communism is an ideo-brand with strong gatekeeping and a high price barrier to entry these days.
7
this megacorporation resettles climate refugees (into work camps).
8
caring would be whataboutism - don’t you know nation-states perpetrated and continue to perpetrate far worse crimes?!
9
caring would be evidence of being influenced by foreign powers - perhaps even a paid troll.
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the megacorporation’s HR lingo is so advanced they’ve convinced people that the awful things they do are good, actually.
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doing so will get you banned from all social media and other online platforms.
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the megacorporation’s giving out lootboxes to people who “combat the misinformation” of their crimes.
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there’s so much information and context for that information out there it’s impossible to sift through what’s a manufactured psy-op or not.
14
they’re convinced that extinction is right around the corner so nothing matters anyways.
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the private sphere can do no wrong - it’s all reactions to market incentives - only the state can be evil.
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they’ve probably got serious dirt on you too - no stones in the glass house of the panopticon.
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moral nihilism is really big these days.
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the big new videogame just came out.
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the news cycle moved on to the next big thing almost instantaneously.
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there’s bigger problems these days.
D20
The executives of this megacorporation
1
take Protestant work ethic and self-denial to a cultish extreme.
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pepper their speech with bubbly self-help jargon.
3
are an extended clan put in their positions by a web of nepotism.
4
take their orders from a secret proprietary AI. They’re chosen for their skill as digital wardens rather than business acumen.
5
have had their consciences surgically removed.
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wear mask-screens that project the face of their focus group tested mascot character.
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practice quaint old-school nationalism.
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are all clones of its autophilic founder.
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spend as much time as possible regressed to infancy in artificial womb-tanks - they believe this promotes longevity and flexibility of thought.
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worship it as a deity, believing the megacorporation to be the modern incarnation of some neopagan god.
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go on a yearly company retreat wherein the lowest performers are hunted for sport by the rest.
12
are recruited and promoted based on genetic testing.
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are expected to maintain perfectly manicured, virtue-signalling public personas. Many need to have their identities prior to joining the megacorporation erased. Most have become experts at subtly destroying their enemies.
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get all their calories, nutrients, and hydration from constant IV drips.
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are required by their contracts to never step foot off corporate property, spending their lives in self-contained and -sustaining crèches.
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have bombs implanted in their skulls that can be remotely detonated by the board of directors.
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undergo nightmarish hazing for each rung of the corporate ladder they climb.
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have their memories wiped and sealed beneath layers of confidentiality agreements, only released when it might be beneficial to the corporate bottom line.
19
believe themselves to be merely extremities of their corporate super-organism.
20
are required to lead its employees and contractors in their corporate anthem at the beginning and end of every work day.
D20
This megacorporation’s headquarters
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is embedded in an arctic ice-shelf, maintained with an atrocious air-conditioning budget.
2
is in a walled garden in the midst of a city that’s been abandoned to institutional and infrastructural decay.
3
is in a massive survivalist bunker compound in New Zealand.
4
is a seasteading sanctuary in international waters.
5
is in a decommissioned, still-hardened, mutually-assured destruction scenario command center.
6
is an enormous aerostat that verges on the upper layers of Earth’s atmosphere. International arguments have been settled that set it outside the jurisdiction of any terrestrial power.
7
is a company town where inhabitants are reduced to indentured servitude by the sole issuance of company scrip.
8
is a space station laying languid in one of the Earth’s Lagrange points.
9
is a local military powerhouse, defended by waves of drones and orbital artillery.
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is in a span of deliberately-uncharted ocean depths, accessible only by stealth-submarines.
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is built atop an early modern star fort.
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is the tallest building in its hemisphere, a marvel of engineering and a nightmare to keep in working order.
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exists entirely on the digital plane, to save on property taxes.
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is a banal hell on wheels, a titanic train able to traverse decaying rail infrastructure. It’s so big it’s even got its own internal monorail line.
15
is a fully-enclosed arcology with its own ecosystem and weather.
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is an ultra-decadent spa that taps into the Earth’s mantle to heat its own artificial hot spring.
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is smack-dab on the surface of the Moon. All but the highest of the corporate hierarchy get there only by telepresence.
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was built according to its founder’s interpretation of the Platonic republic.
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is suspended on carbon nanotube cables above the caldera of a volcano, for dramatic impact.
20
is in a bucolic cottagecore village wherein good vibes are maintained at gunpoint.
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