I visit some partially built homes from time to time, and recently saw one just after it had been inspected. On one wall, on the insulation, the inspector had scrawled STUD? In red felt.

The stud was completely missing from the wall. It was just an empty frame filled with insulation. You’d think someone would have noticed earlier during construction, but obviously the actual contractor had just let the day labor go to town and never bothered to review their work before inspection.

Yes, that's true, but I meant more like uh...

The Disney+ life supscription is partnered with Starbucks, which is also partnered with Amazon Whole Foods and Trader Joes, and Verizon, and Subaru and GM.

The Netflix life supscription is partnered with Costco, Cox, and McDonalds, Chevy and Toyota.

The HBO Max life supscription is partnered with Walmart, ATT, Honda and Ford, ... Cluck'in Bell, fucking whatever.

And then also some kind of alliance type structure with various regional or national landlords/land developers.

Like, uh, roughly the idea of a Japanese Keiretsu, or a Korean Chaebol, but kind of inverted, applied much more thoroughly to the consumer side, than to the finance/internal corporate structures.

So yeah, you just pick one of those three life subscription plans, they all have various tiers, etc, and you... well you rent or lease or finance basically everything.

Thats how the idea of a kind of Corporate Citizenship will start, something like that.

That's my nightmare/prognostication.

It won't be based around like, families of business that define your employment paths, as exists in much more uh, 'classic' cyberpunk, I guess.

It'll be oriented around consumption, getting things, because... practically no one will even have 'real' jobs, having a career will become a defining marker of being born into an upper crust corpo elite class of some kind, the rest of us proles will just be shuffled between gig work, retail jobs, jail, prison, military, etc.