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Message no. 1
From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.net>
Subject: Re: Corporate Power
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 08:35:13 -0400 (EDT)
At 10:39 PM 5/26/96 +0100, Paul wrote:

>What caused Pearl Harbour? An oil embargo on Japan. They couldn't buy it
>so they decided to take it, and they had to prevent the US Pacific Fleet
>from interfering.

I don't recall that ever being listed as a reason before.
*shrug*

>The bottom line is nations win wars better than corporations, and the
>Corporate Court exists to prevent wars: both by coercing nations, and by
>either keeping individual corporations in line, or allowing them to get
>somewhat chewed if they disregard Court guidelines.

The bottom line is, TopCat has failed to realize that the corporations are
not by any means a monolithic group of plutocracies (?), but a bunch of
individual ones with their own goals and desires. If company A can screw
over a competitor, they'll do it. They aren't going to automatically side
with them.

--
"This isn't a post made to be debated, this is my view on things."
- TopCat
Message no. 2
From: "Ubiratan P. Alberton" <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
Subject: Corporate power
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 14:27:21 -0300
Cobra escreveu:
>
>In SR, megacorps aren't as powerful as in Cyberpunk.

I'll have to disagree with you on this one. The AAA Megacorps of
SR are way more powerful than those corps in CP (which aren't even
called
"megacorps"...) They'd be equal to second or third tier SR corps (AA or
A),
since they're big and multinational, but specialize in only one aspect
of the market. The Big 8 are most know for one of their activities, but
do everything and are everywhere.

Ubiratan

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