Just on an aesthetic level cyberpunk is based on ramped-up out of control capitalism. The neon signs everywhere bc advertising
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If economic activity has almost completely shut down in this dystopian utopia then there won't be ads blaring everywhere
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So the aesthetic of the dude's game makes no sense
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And that's just it, I can imagine a "quiet" dystopia abt ppl vanishing from the landscape bc they're not needed
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In my mind that's the key vision that underlies the world of
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But a dystopia of too little activity is going to LOOK fundamentally different from the '80s vision of too much activity
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The old school cyberpunk vision is absolutely a too-much-activity world -- everyone's fucking desperate to buy, to sell, to hustle, to con
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Everyone's worried about making rent for the month and desperate for a score (but the flip side is there are scores to be had)
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Hence cyberpunk dystopia is attractive to actual libertarians who want a world where there's always work for someone willing to do anything
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In the review I wrote of ADVANTAGEOUS I wrote abt the counter vision of a worse dystopia where no one wants or needs anything from you
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And the "superfluous class" of people just fades away
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