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I’m not a huge fan of Neal Stephenson but Snow Crash’s vision of private franchised everything was pretty on the nose.

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Yeah, he was pretty influenced by PKD as I recall

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EAll's avatar EAll @ealluia.bsky.social
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He was semi-seriously thought-experimenting out the ideas of anarcho-capitalism in the style of cyber-punk. Co-ops and franchises is how anarcho-capitalists imagine core functions of government that require collective pooling of resources can be privatized.

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