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Because they stopped printing land

There iswas no need today for the Bank of America to haveconstruct the tenth largest building in America at over 1,200 feet with 55 floors and a 5.1 megaWatt generator, when it only employs fewer than 200 people and manufacturesthere who manufacture nothing at all.

Bank of America Tower, Manhattan

Office buildings exist for the reason that they are called office buildings: for offices. The way these building work is very simple:

Pretend you are in a country, and it has people with money. But, the people don't want their money getting robbed all the time. This is where we came up with the idea of large, steel vaults that robbers can't break into. The business that keeps your money safe (in a safe), is called a bank.

But, banks don't just let your money sit around and get dusty. Banks invest our money to make it grow. They literally rent your money out to people who need to run a small business. When you hear the word "interest" on a loan or credit, that is nothing more than the daily cost of renting someone else's money, which the bank happens to have a lot of.

The hardest problem any business in a large city has to overcome, is getting their stuff close to the people buying it. So, this is how banks and large corporations can use their huge bank accounts (of other people's money) to grow more money.

They rent the offices

The 55 floors of the Bank of America tower have nothing to do at all with banking. They collect rent from accountants, and lawyers, and interior designers, or whoever can afford to pay the rent.

Your Big Cyberpunk Corporation owns this enormous building in the center of the city, because no one else can afford a small shop downtown. Every glass window in your huge skyscraper is an office, and that office is collecting rent every month. The corporate employees might be only a handful, or, like you said, be able to work completely remotely. But, humans can't do everything remotely. Some stuff absolutely needs to be done in a confidential and private office. Especially in a cyberpunk world, where hackers can listen in to anyone they want. You can't hack two people talking across a desk, so offices remain the place where businesses keep their company secrets and private business dealings that would be pirated over the Net.

This is how it works in real life. That won't change in a cyberpunk world; it may even become more necessary.

Because they stopped printing land

There is no need today for the Bank of America to have the tenth largest building in America at over 1,200 feet with 55 floors and a 5.1 megaWatt generator, when it only employs fewer than 200 people and manufactures nothing at all.

Bank of America Tower, Manhattan

Office buildings exist for the reason that they are called office buildings: for offices. The way these building work is very simple:

Pretend you are in a country, and it has people with money. But, the people don't want their money getting robbed all the time. This is where we came up with the idea of large, steel vaults that robbers can't break into. The business that keeps your money safe (in a safe), is called a bank.

But, banks don't just let your money sit around and get dusty. Banks invest our money to make it grow. They literally rent your money out to people who need to run a small business. When you hear the word "interest" on a loan or credit, that is nothing more than the daily cost of renting someone else's money, which the bank happens to have a lot of.

The hardest problem any business in a large city has to overcome, is getting their stuff close to the people buying it. So, this is how banks and large corporations can use their huge bank accounts (of other people's money) to grow more money.

They rent the offices

The 55 floors of the Bank of America tower have nothing to do at all with banking. They collect rent from accountants, and lawyers, and interior designers, or whoever can afford to pay the rent.

Your Big Cyberpunk Corporation owns this enormous building in the center of the city, because no one else can afford a small shop downtown. Every glass window in your huge skyscraper is an office, and that office is collecting rent every month. The corporate employees might be only a handful, or, like you said, be able to work completely remotely. But, humans can't do everything remotely. Some stuff absolutely needs to be done in a confidential and private office. Especially in a cyberpunk world, where hackers can listen in to anyone they want. You can't hack two people talking across a desk, so offices remain the place where businesses keep their company secrets and private business dealings that would be pirated over the Net.

This is how it works in real life. That won't change in a cyberpunk world; it may even become more necessary.

Because they stopped printing land

There was no need today for the Bank of America to construct the tenth largest building in America at over 1,200 feet with 55 floors and a 5.1 megaWatt generator, when it only employs fewer than 200 people there who manufacture nothing at all.

Bank of America Tower, Manhattan

Office buildings exist for the reason that they are called office buildings: for offices. The way these building work is very simple:

Pretend you are in a country, and it has people with money. But, the people don't want their money getting robbed all the time. This is where we came up with the idea of large, steel vaults that robbers can't break into. The business that keeps your money safe (in a safe), is called a bank.

But, banks don't just let your money sit around and get dusty. Banks invest our money to make it grow. They literally rent your money out to people who need to run a small business. When you hear the word "interest" on a loan or credit, that is nothing more than the daily cost of renting someone else's money, which the bank happens to have a lot of.

The hardest problem any business in a large city has to overcome, is getting their stuff close to the people buying it. So, this is how banks and large corporations can use their huge bank accounts (of other people's money) to grow more money.

They rent the offices

The 55 floors of the Bank of America tower have nothing to do at all with banking. They collect rent from accountants, and lawyers, and interior designers, or whoever can afford to pay the rent.

Your Big Cyberpunk Corporation owns this enormous building in the center of the city, because no one else can afford a small shop downtown. Every glass window in your huge skyscraper is an office, and that office is collecting rent every month. The corporate employees might be only a handful, or, like you said, be able to work completely remotely. But, humans can't do everything remotely. Some stuff absolutely needs to be done in a confidential and private office. Especially in a cyberpunk world, where hackers can listen in to anyone they want. You can't hack two people talking across a desk, so offices remain the place where businesses keep their company secrets and private business dealings that would be pirated over the Net.

This is how it works in real life. That won't change in a cyberpunk world; it may even become more necessary.

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Because they stopped printing land

There is no need today for the Bank of America to have the tenth largest building in America at over 1,200 feet with 55 floors and a 5.1 megaWatt generator, when it only employs fewer than 200 people and manufactures nothing at all.

Bank of America Tower, Manhattan

Office buildings exist for the reason that they are called office buildings: for offices. The way these building work is very simple:

Pretend you are in a country, and it has people with money. But, the people don't want their money getting robbed all the time. This is where we came up with the idea of large, steel vaults that robbers can't break into. The business that keeps your money safe (in a safe), is called a bank.

But, banks don't just let your money sit around and get dusty. Banks invest our money to make it grow. They literally rent your money out to people who need to run a small business. When you hear the word "interest" on a loan or credit, that is nothing more than the daily cost of renting someone else's money, which the bank happens to have a lot of.

The hardest problem any business in a large city has to overcome, is getting their stuff close to the people buying it. So, this is how banks and large corporations can use their huge bank accounts (of other people's money) to grow more money.

They rent the offices

The 55 floors of the Bank of America tower have nothing to do at all with banking. They collect rent from accountants, and lawyers, and interior designers, or whoever can afford to pay the rent.

Your Big Cyberpunk Corporation owns this enormous building in the center of the city, because no one else can afford a small shop downtown. Every glass window in your huge skyscraper is an office, and that office is collecting rent every month. The corporate employees might be only a handful, or, like you said, be able to work completely remotely. But, humans can't do everything remotely. Some stuff absolutely needs to be done in a confidential and private office. Especially in a cyberpunk world, where hackers can listen in to anyone they want. You can't hack two people talking across a desk, so offices remain the place where businesses keep their company secrets and private business dealings that would be pirated over the Net.

This is how it works in real life. That won't change in a cyberpunk world; it may even become more necessary.

Because they stopped printing land

There is no need today for the Bank of America to have the tenth largest building in America at over 1,200 feet with 55 floors and a 5.1 megaWatt generator, when it only employs fewer than 200 people and manufactures nothing at all.

Bank of America Tower, Manhattan

Office buildings exist for the reason that they are called office buildings: for offices. The way these building work is very simple:

Pretend you are in a country, and it has people with money. But, the people don't want their money getting robbed all the time. This is where we came up with the idea of large, steel vaults that robbers can't break into. The business that keeps your money safe (in a safe), is called a bank.

But, banks don't just let your money sit around and get dusty. Banks invest our money to make it grow. They literally rent your money out to people who need to run a small business. When you hear the word "interest" on a loan or credit, that is nothing more than the daily cost of renting someone else's money, which the bank happens to have.

The hardest problem any business in a large city has to overcome, is getting their stuff close to the people buying it. So, this is how banks and large corporations can use their huge bank accounts to grow money.

They rent the offices

The 55 floors of the Bank of America tower have nothing to do at all with banking. They collect rent from accountants, and lawyers, and interior designers, or whoever can afford to pay the rent.

Your Big Cyberpunk Corporation owns this enormous building in the center of the city, because no one else can afford a small shop downtown. Every glass window in your huge skyscraper is an office, and that office is collecting rent every month. The corporate employees might be only a handful, or, like you said, be able to work completely remotely. But, humans can't do everything remotely. Some stuff absolutely needs to be done in a confidential and private office. Especially in a cyberpunk world, where hackers can listen in to anyone they want. You can't hack two people talking across a desk, so offices remain the place where businesses keep their company secrets and private business dealings that would be pirated over the Net.

This is how it works in real life. That won't change in a cyberpunk world; it may even become more necessary.

Because they stopped printing land

There is no need today for the Bank of America to have the tenth largest building in America at over 1,200 feet with 55 floors and a 5.1 megaWatt generator, when it only employs fewer than 200 people and manufactures nothing at all.

Bank of America Tower, Manhattan

Office buildings exist for the reason that they are called office buildings: for offices. The way these building work is very simple:

Pretend you are in a country, and it has people with money. But, the people don't want their money getting robbed all the time. This is where we came up with the idea of large, steel vaults that robbers can't break into. The business that keeps your money safe (in a safe), is called a bank.

But, banks don't just let your money sit around and get dusty. Banks invest our money to make it grow. They literally rent your money out to people who need to run a small business. When you hear the word "interest" on a loan or credit, that is nothing more than the daily cost of renting someone else's money, which the bank happens to have a lot of.

The hardest problem any business in a large city has to overcome, is getting their stuff close to the people buying it. So, this is how banks and large corporations can use their huge bank accounts (of other people's money) to grow more money.

They rent the offices

The 55 floors of the Bank of America tower have nothing to do at all with banking. They collect rent from accountants, and lawyers, and interior designers, or whoever can afford to pay the rent.

Your Big Cyberpunk Corporation owns this enormous building in the center of the city, because no one else can afford a small shop downtown. Every glass window in your huge skyscraper is an office, and that office is collecting rent every month. The corporate employees might be only a handful, or, like you said, be able to work completely remotely. But, humans can't do everything remotely. Some stuff absolutely needs to be done in a confidential and private office. Especially in a cyberpunk world, where hackers can listen in to anyone they want. You can't hack two people talking across a desk, so offices remain the place where businesses keep their company secrets and private business dealings that would be pirated over the Net.

This is how it works in real life. That won't change in a cyberpunk world; it may even become more necessary.

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Because they stopped printing land

There is no need today for the Bank of America to have the tenth largest building in America at over 1,200 feet with 55 floors and a 5.1 megaWatt generator, when it only employs fewer than 200 people and manufactures nothing at all.

Bank of America Tower, Manhattan

Office buildings exist for the reason that they are called office buildings: for offices. The way these building work is very simple:

Pretend you are in a country, and it has people with money. But, the people don't want their money getting robbed all the time. This is where we came up with the idea of large, steel vaults that robbers can't break into. The business that keeps your money safe (in a safe), is called a bank.

But, banks don't just let your money sit around and get dusty. Banks invest our money to make it grow. They literally rent your money out to people who need to run a small business. When you hear the word "interest" on a loan or credit, that is nothing more than the daily cost of renting someone else's money, which the bank happens to have.

The hardest problem any business in a large city has to overcome, is getting their stuff close to the people buying it. So, this is how banks and large corporations can use their huge bank accounts to grow money.

They rent the offices

The 55 floors of the Bank of America tower have nothing to do at all with banking. They collect rent from accountants, and lawyers, and interior designers, or whoever can afford to pay the rent.

Your Big Cyberpunk Corporation owns this enormous building in the center of the city, because no one else can afford a small shop downtown. Every glass window in your huge skyscraper is an office, and that office is collecting rent every month. The corporate employees might be only a handful, or, like you said, be able to work completely remotely. But, humans can't do everything remotely. Some stuff absolutely needs to be done in a confidential and private office. Especially in a cyberpunk world, where hackers can listen in to anyone they want. You can't hack two people talking across a desk, so offices remain the place where businesses keep their company secrets and private business dealings that would be pirated over the Net.

This is how it works in real life. That won't change in a cyberpunk world; it may even become more necessary.