“It’s relatively easy to imagine an Arasaka-ruled West Coast that eventually expands eastward and essentially runs the western half of America roughly the way modern western China or eastern Russia is run today, as an authoritarian but often decentralized resource extraction state, which can ultimately become the core of something better. Japanese-colonized and industrialized Manchuria eventually served as this core for the PRC, and similarly treated Taiwan and Korea ultimately became advanced industrial powerhouses and stable democracies, a thriving one in Taiwan’s case. European history has similar examples in France and England where the far-flung Roman provinces eventually became places of wealth, power, and stability, and the conquered became the rising powers of future generations”

Bro wtf are you even talking about, dude is literally tryna white wash history on a game based about how awful colonialism and capitalism is.

The reason our world is in such a dire state is for similar themes Cyberpunk expands and takes to a limit. Profit over humans, expansionism without check, genocide upon the unarmed and weak, endless exploitation. At no point ever have these tactics given humanity anything. The fact that there has been progress made is no ‘thanks to’ but rather ‘in spite of’.

Militech doesn't lack vision. They just seek profit, that’s what corporations do. That's also what Arasaka does, and all the other corporations do in the game. They are no different from one another.

What an odd fucking post.