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  • $\begingroup$ That story... Judge Dredd comics? $\endgroup$
    – Monty Wild ♦
    Commented Mar 20, 2022 at 6:44
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    $\begingroup$ "This means that every employee can be protected by corporate security. It also makes it much easier for the employer to extract more working hours" and much easier for the hostile competition to take out the entire company workforce with one well placed drone strike controlled from an offshore subsidiary somewhere with privacy laws that make it impossible to prove they own the subsidiary that did it 😁 $\endgroup$
    – Pelinore
    Commented Mar 20, 2022 at 10:19
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    $\begingroup$ @Pelinore There's always a catch... $\endgroup$
    – No Name
    Commented Mar 20, 2022 at 20:32
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    $\begingroup$ @pellinore That’s why there are no extraterritorial locations in many cyberpunk novels. $\endgroup$
    – SRM
    Commented Mar 20, 2022 at 21:51
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    $\begingroup$ This is roughly the same as Gibson's arcologies in Neuromancer with one extra bit: the security also keeps key employees from being hired away. Sort of a gilded cage. $\endgroup$
    – Owen Reynolds
    Commented Mar 21, 2022 at 0:24