Yeah, I just tend to think of that stuff as corporate feudalism. And I learned that concept from playing shadowrun as a kid and then getting into other cyberpunk stuff.

And yeah, it seems to be the direction we are headed. Elon musk is a fan of blade runner and I don’t think he identifies with the poor people but the rich CEO.

The term cyberpunk was first used to describe settings such as Snowcrash, i.e. dystopian corporate sci-fi, before it was adopted as a name for the gaming franchise.

I’m not sure if the person you are replying to was using it as a noun or an adjective, I parsed it is an adjective because it’s more inclusive.

Anyway… using cyberpunk to refer to the game franchise, would be a disambiguation. This is the article referring to the original usage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk?wprov=sfla1

We’re all terminally ill on a long enough timeline.

So… Was that an offer to be our chad?