We live in a cyberpunk dystopia but the corporate overlords don't even have cool names.
We don't have companies called Militech or anything, we have companies named shit like Poob. Palantir is the only suitably evil sounding company
Cyberpunk companies are named like the Bloodweb Syndicate and their company propaganda is dudes in LED face helmets holding big science guns. It rules. Like I could see myself on a hover cycle raiding their HQ with all my half-robot underclass buds.
Real life evil companies make propaganda in flat pastel colors and make social media posts like "Erm, did someone say coffee?" We live in daycare center aesthetics.
Daycare centre aesthetics really fucking nails it. I also really hate how people have internalized and regurgitate patronizing HR speak as if real people should ever say 'touch base'.
Blackwater was appropriately unsettling. Constellis just doesn't have the same ring to it.
That's fine, just give them 6 months to do another "oopsie" warcrime and they'll rebrand to something even worse.
they learned that astro-turfing and pleasant titles are more effective than naming themselves something like: Evil Corp LLC.
I’d arguably trust Evil Corp LLC more.
i bet that's why palantir does well.
Fiction: Damien Knight, an enigma who is suspected to be a former US black ops soldier whose records were erased in the Crash, bought out a controlling stake in ARES MACROTECHNOLOGY with assistance from the dragon president Dunkelzahn.
Reality: An inbred south african apartheid failson bought out the right to be called technoking.
There's a chance it was satire, because they never did obvious things like disband the cyberpunk-fantasy version of the KKK, but I'm a lot more likely to just say the authors were all libs.
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Did Jobs do the quirky names or was he just an iThing guy?
Evil names peaked at "Rupert Murdoch"
I dunno, Elon Musk sounds exactly like the type of name used for a corporate villain in a dystopian novel.
His mom looks like straight out of the capitol district.
Remove the context(or maybe don't) and 'Elon Musk' is a perfect cyberpunk baddie name, 'Elon' sounds exotic and even futuristic to the western ear(tbh it used to remind me of the 'Eloi' from The Time Machine when I'd just heard the name and didn't know much about him), and Musk implies he's a no-good stinky doo-doo head
For real. Also: I was promised tons of cool dangerous unregulated tech to go along with it! Can't get a machine gun rocket launcher arm prosthetic but at least you can purchase a the license to a jpeg of one with dumb little speaker which is spying on you to sell your data. Shit blows.
Jeff Bezos, and Amazon actually sound kinda evil
Facebook is kind of chilling when you think about it as a global surveillance corporation collecting faces and watching what those faces are doing. They've got your face in the book, and they're watching you, so take care.
Microsoft or northrop grumman isn't any less scary than weyland-utani (alien), or Umbrella (resident evil).
Apple and Google ya tho, I agree.
Raytheon sounds pretty evil. BlackRock as well.
Palantir. Literally an evil wizard orb.
Ackshually the palantir were created by Feanor in the first age and were just kinda like telephones. The orbs themselves are neutral leaning towards good, it's just evil wizards got 2 of the last like 4 that are around.
Probably why they rebranded to RTX after the recent merger.
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