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Old 01-11-2019, 07:06 AM   #65
johndallman
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
Default Re: Comment my megacorporation

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Originally Posted by Alonsua View Post
Come on. By TL10 you have biofabs and robofacs.
Yes. And once you start selling androids built with them, nation-states and corporations will start trying to get their people hired by your company. When they find out that you can change their people's loyalty relatively readily, you'll become an existential threat on those grounds alone.

You need space, money, people and materials to build your biofabs and robofacs, and the only place to get them on Earth is from the planetary economy. This leaves traces, and lots of people track events in the economy, because doing so allows profit.

Your scheme might work better if you did it off Earth, by asteroid mining.
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