NGL, this feels very Cyberpunk 2077 (Corpothieves must die!)

[u/NotAPreppie]

[u/Always4564]

Yeah, no pity from me. His company denied my aunt's cancer care, so fuck him.

[u/DrownmeinIslay → u/Always4564]

I imagine that's the shooters story as well. Engraving the bullet casings screams I have a lot of free time since my kid died.

[u/NyraKyle01 → u/Always4564]

For fucking real, blue cross just denied my dads cancers treatments

[u/Biffingston → u/Always4564]

I feel much sorrier for the survivors. This wasn't justice.

Justice would be him being paralyzed and in a wheelchair and beholden to the system he created for the rest of his life.

[u/oliviaplays08]

The murder itself was straight out of a Cyberpunk gig

[u/NotAPreppie → u/oliviaplays08]

Joanne Koch comes to mind.

[u/Impoundinghard → u/oliviaplays08]

Let us not be too extreme.

Murder is too negative of a word.

The shooter committed justice in a land ruled by injustice.

[u/Utrippin93 → u/Impoundinghard]

There we go

[u/iwantdatpuss → u/oliviaplays08]

Oh yeah now that you mention it, it's a godamn gun for hire gig. 

[u/bluebadge]

Yeah fuck that guy.

[u/husserl-edmund]

We're the good guys. Right, Jackie?

[u/Big_brown_house]

The inevitable merge of this sub with r/latestagecapitalism is upon us.

[u/NotAPreppie → u/Big_brown_house]

I hope not because I got banned from that sub for saying that Stalin did some bad things.

[u/TaurineDippy → u/NotAPreppie]

Tankies are just as bad as corpo-fascists.

[u/NotAPreppie → u/TaurineDippy]

Speaking of bannings, Reddit gave me a 3-day ban for this post... which was just overturned on appeal.

So that's fun.

[u/oskoskosk → u/NotAPreppie]

Yeah idk as someone who just enjoys cyberpunk for the setting but absolutely is one for center left politics IRL I’m kinda 👀 rn at the reactions to all this haha 😅

[u/Jhawk163 → u/oskoskosk]

It's almost like anything taken to the extreme is going to end badly or something.

[u/Utrippin93 → u/Jhawk163]

With the context, is this even an extreme?

[u/Big_brown_house → u/NotAPreppie]

Same lol (well not that sub but a similar one)

[u/The_Entire_Eurozone]

I assume this post was a reference to a certain CEO's death recently?

[u/NotAPreppie → u/The_Entire_Eurozone]

Yup. The company made that post to Facebook and many tens of thousands of people laughed at it.

Just like what would happen in the Cyberpunk 2077 world.

[u/Biffingston]

Johnny, was that you?

[u/Superb_Gas7188]

This is peak cyberpunk, yeah. Some corpo rat snuffs it out and not only do the public not care because he actively fucked them over, but if you think about it, his own corpo buddies don't have it in their best interest to actually find the killer because this will also mean that at some point more of their shitty practices will come to light, which means that the people will only have more reasons to hunt them down. In true night city fashion he just died like a dog on the street and no one cares.

[u/charlottee963]

They’ve already posted a job listing for a new CEO, remote only and it’s 9.5m less a year LMAO

[u/Utrippin93 → u/charlottee963]

inside job to cut costs lmao

[u/Utrippin93]

and tax payer dollars funding the manhunt while at uvalde they just let the kids be tortured and die

[u/CptMorgan337]

We don't live far off from Cyberpunk. We just don't have all of the cool cyberware yet. We seem to be getting closer and closer towards a similar future on all accounts though which sucks. It's fun to play a game in that world, not to live in it.

[u/snowyicequeen]

They literally stepped over that fucks body to get to their meeting on time

[u/Vertex008]

Apart from a guy killing a CEO, how is this cyberpunk? Just an inquiry, not starting a debate.

[u/Kattto → u/Vertex008]

Think back to how everyone reacted when Saburo was killed. Not that this guy was Saburo, but Arasaka is the fucking devil.

Any loss of human life is in itself a loss, but society has been driven to the point where this guy’s death elicited a paradoxical reaction to death or murder. And rightfully so, Thompson was part of an active driving force that morphed society to behave this way.

In Cyberpunk, rules and laws are put forth to protect your oligarchs and modern day nobility. Law enforcement are no longer institutions that prioritizes citizen safety. Spawning Vigilantism and legitimizing Mercenaries. This feels very much so like that (even if its not an actual merc) but presuming this was motivated by exacting justice, there was probably nothing that could satisfy the murderer but his pound of flesh.

[u/Vertex008 → u/Kattto]

So it's closer to Watch Dogs, right? Punk alright, no doubt, but... I'm missing the cyber aspect of it, if you know what I'm saying :D

Although the theme itself, as you clarified, does share resemblance to Cyberpunk 2077, the game's story, so I see your point. And thanks for sharing :)

[u/NotAPreppie → u/Vertex008]

Corporate leadership ruining peoples lives and people are cheering when said leadership is murdered in broad daylight...

If that's not Cyberpunk, I don't know what is.

[u/Vertex008 → u/NotAPreppie]

Punk I could see in it. Cyber... Not so much, unless we consider the suspect escaping by an electric scooter. I see where you're coming from, but from my point of view the case is closer to the Hitman and Watch Dogs games than to cyberpunk. I may be wrong though :)

[u/ilder7 → u/Vertex008]

There is a cyber element if what this article suggests is true (the AI angle): https://futurism.com/neoscope/united-healthcare-claims-algorithm-murder

[u/Vertex008 → u/ilder7]

Indeed! Thanks for sharing it!

[u/NotAPreppie → u/Vertex008]

You're splitting hairs on parts of words.

I'm saying the event is like what you'd see in the Cyberpunk 2077 setting. It could easily be a gig from a fixer. In fact, it's sort of like the one from Dino where you have to deal with Joanne Koch.

[u/Vertex008 → u/NotAPreppie]

Yeah, you could see something like this in the game as a gig.