Megacorporate Nightmares #1

[AlHazred]

I generally run my Megacorporations in a dystopian fashion -- basically, I use the absolute worst stories I hear about terrible corporate culture, then dial them up to 11 for MTU. So, with that in mind, what shenanigans come to mind when you read this article?

Sound cues steered dreams and improved puzzle-solving

: Could the same method one day power sleep-time ads?

www.theregister.com

I'm envisioning a law on Corporate government-type planets where you must dream a certain number of hours of advertisements every day. High-tech planets with a strong Corpo influence (say, where the ruling family owns some large-enough percentage of the local large corp that it shows up in Library Data), will be playgrounds of competing soundscapes and visual stimuli. What else am I missing?

 

[Spinward Flow]

To borrow the alignment chart from a different RPG series ...

Public Relations: Lawful Good
Corporate Culture: Lawful Neutral
Executive Personnel: Lawful Evil

Case in point ...

Public Relations: Lawful Good

Corporate Culture: Lawful Neutral

Executive Personnel: Lawful Evil

 

[Grav_Moped]

 

[Condottiere]

The problem with dreaming advertisements, would be, unless there's some subliminal element, the dreamers upon awakening would likely forget them.

Also, you could subscribe to Dreamflix, and beam into your head preprogrammed contents.

 

[Spinward Flow]

Executive Personnel: Lawful Evil

With some (wannabe) Masters Of The Universe™ ... they're actually just (LoL)Awful Evil ...



Never attribute to thoughtful mendacity what can be explained more adequately and easily by rampant stupidity + unchecked greed ...
Unfortunately, there are some notable exceptions ...