In an innovation which is pretty cyberpunk, I’ve run into N>2 instances of professionals in Japan using a Facebook account named, without loss of generality, Taro Company. This is presumably because FB messenger runs a lot of Japan business communications.
also, a question for both of you: reading this via Byrne https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2018/5/21/invisible-asymptotes … & had a thought: if we went through a 25 or 50 year period of socialism, what subtle but important aspects of capitalism might we forget as a culture? Not forecasting - socialists (try) to do that
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any suggestions / candidates ?
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Prestige in government: how big a problem are you trying to solve? Prestige in private sector: how big a problem do you solve? We’d lose that—the idea that it’s a big win to make your job obsolete.
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Think you could probably pick a few of the items from https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3bfWCPfu9AFspnhvf/traditional-capitalist-values … Given your use case as an author I'd encourage you to have *sympathetic* characters do *unsympathetic and odd* things.
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e.g. A technically sophisticated lawful good non-capitalist society which has a deep commitment to its internal logic should have a constantly running process looking for outlier success and thoroughly investigate it on the assumption that it is necessarily the result of crime.
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