Cyberpunk: high tech/low life
Cybergovernmentpunk: high tech + low state capacity
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A lot of shit makes sense if you assume state capacity is collapsing
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State capacity does not shrink evenly. In fact it tends to strengthen in a few areas like surveillance while collapsing everywhere else
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The only capacity that counts is tax enforcement.
Does surveillance surplus translate to taxation surplus? Or is that a leading indicator?
I would imagine they are weakly coupled, but the populace has the ability to use tech to lower effective tax rates

