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Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren't straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's also E Corp from Mr. Robot.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That one was clealy google, not the other way around

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is more Tencent or Samsung that Google.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but samsung in nowhere near Google's influence in US and worldwide. But I agree these companies are HUGE in Asia.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Samsung is EVERYTHING in Korea. Not so much in the west beyond phones and smart tv's, and Laundry machines or whatever, but in Korea, Samsung does EVERYTHING.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes chaebol is a concept in itself

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

TVs, Phones, Washing Machines? Samsung! Cars, trucks? Also, Samsung! Heavy machine equipment, cranes, etc? Believe or not, also Samsung! The Chaebol that does it all!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was even a scandal involving cancer causing work environments with Samsung like in the show.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the characters called it evil corp anyways so it might as well have been the name.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Not exactly, most of the characters seem to call the company E Corp but the main character (who's also the narrator) "corrects it" in his head.