#corporate dystopia

[wintertraumaposting]

Kinky Corporate Dystopia

You're working security at a company, strapped in at your desk, a plug buried inside you and your parts caged up.

Many monitors display other workers across the building. You note someone stealing office equipment and submit a report. Your plug and cage buzz, rewarding you for your diligent observation, but fading all too quickly.

You see another worker running late, hurrying along to their desk with a worried expression across their face. You go to submit a report, but your finger hovers over the button. You've been in their shoes. You've been late to your desk before. You feel the briefest moment of connection with this person, perhaps even a second of real empathy.

The memory of the joy that hard work brings forces your finger down onto the submit key. A pleasurable buzz squashes that flicker of compassion, and you chide yourself for allowing your personal feelings to disrupt your duties. Clearly you need another session with Employee Discipline. There is no room for mercy if the Company is to meet targets.

A moment later, you file a report on their manager for not noticing their employee was late, and that they have failed to drill the importance of punctuality into their staff. Another mind-bending buzz floods you with pleasure, reminding you of the importance of loyalty to the Company.

You report the slightest infraction. Any deviance or failure to adhere to company policy must be punished. It feels far too good for you to show any hint of slack. Whatever you may think, your body craves the addictive buzz of pleasure doing your duty provides.

When your shift finishes and your restraints unclick, you make your way to your on-site sleeping pod.

The employees you reported on look at you as you pass through the corridors. Some with fear, some with hate, others resigned obedience. But you know you did the right thing in reporting on all of them. You know they're grateful for your hard work to turn them into perfect employees, just like yourself. They'll thank you one day. What could be better than serving the company that gives you such fulfilment and pleasure?

Another successful shift completed, you enjoy your 5 minutes of free time by reading the company handbook. Chapter 12 "The Joys of Obedience" is your favourite.

You lie down for your 4 hour rest period. Your sleep-pod working to make your dreams more efficient, and more importantly, focused on the Company. Not even the confines of your mind are safe from the company, not that you would want them to be! A pleasant buzz pulls you into a fuzzy slumber, before your next 20 hour shift. You're such a good employee.

#sillykink #corporate dystopia #corporate drone #drone #mind fuck #weird #I honestly don't know what else to tag this

[goodguynickachievement]

by feathergust

#feathergust #brutal legend #brutal legend memes #memes #corporate dystopia #retail apocalypse

[becomingkatie]

My company is firing 96 people today! The CEO sent out an email early this morning about it, and naming the departments most affected by it, and even though my boss told me I’m not being fired I’ve just felt sick all day. For almost a hundred people, today is a Bad Day here. And I think it’s fucked up to send an email like that, saying this many people from these specific departments are being fired today and then letting everyone wait around to see if it’s them or not. Just reinforces that I am not aligned with this company’s values and leaving is the right call.

However, since I’m leaving in less than four weeks anyway, getting laid off with severance right now would be really nice actually. So I am both sick over how messed up it is, and bummed I didn’t get laid off. What a day!

#personal #corporate dystopia

[mattsmemes]

#meme #mattsmemes #memes that make you go hmmm #accurate #100% accurate #corporate dystopia #capitalist hell #capitalist dystopia #orwell

[marxalittle]

Idk I just think that replacement organs and medical devices shouldn't require firmware updates or wifi or subscriptions or, like …any of that "they went out of business so now your kidney doesn't work" shit

#medical #corporate dystopia #blue screen of death but in your robot eye #cyborgs #wetwear not hardware #grow the vat organs #this could be cooler #imagine having to subscribe to your own body #like organs as a service #that's fucked up

[weakzen]

lmao adobe/pantone charging a subscription fee for color palettes & replacing those colors with black on old pieces of artwork if you don’t pay up

#truly a blessed year for digital illustrators #between this #and csp moving to a subscription service #the rampant unending art theft by nft grifters #and '''''''''ai art''''''' grifters #on top of the already rampant unending art theft by multinational billion dollar corporations #nothing but love for MY dystopia

[bewarethedragon]

The prevalence of "unalived" as a slang term is objective proof that we live in a cultural corporate dystopia and you should ask me about it cause I have a Lot of Opinions.

#the fact that you cant acknowledge such a basic part of the human experience without being shadowbanned or outright banned #is such a sinister form of thought control because of how much of our interactions are based on social media these days #like im okay with the world getting a little softer in some aspects #soft should not be an insult #but theres a difference between soft like a pillow and soft like rotting wood #ramble #rambling #dystopia #corporate dystopia

[gwen-tolios]

Ace Book Review: Firebreak by Nicole Kroner-Stace

Summary: Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two and is in a perpetual state of war. Here, Mallory streams Stellaxis's wargame, SecOps, to eke out a hardscrabble living from tips. A chance encounter with one of the game's rare super-soldier NPCs leads to a side job for Mal--looking to link missing children to SecOps characters. Mal's sudden burst in online fame rivals her deepening fear of what she is uncovering about BestLife's developer and puts her in the kind of danger she's only experienced through her avatar.

Buy Link

Ace Rep: ⭐

I hate to give it one star, it is own voices ace rep, but the truth of the matter is the only reason my ace book club knew it was ace rep was that we were reading it for ace book club. The single line referencing it could mean anything, and I like my rep a little more obvious.

Ace Friendliness: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

While the rep was low, the ace themes of this were high. Mal and her streaming partner aren't quite at QPR levels, but it's obvious the relationship is important to both of them and it's extremely platonic. Mal also has a fandom friend crush, a type of relationship that most of us have experienced even if it is rarely seen in media, which made this book relatable in a unique way. We appreciated how deep, platonic relationships (and not family ones!) drove character growth and the plot. There's also not a single romance mentioned anywhere, even with side characters.

This was also super important for the author to portray, as she tells Culturess in this interview.

Reading Experience: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

As a bookclub member said, this book is grounded in reality. Sometimes that reality was a little too close and it made me uncomfortable - scenes of police brutality, laws that exist for the benefit of corporations, marketing as propaganda, the sense of wanting to do something but not sure what or how. The enemy in this story is Stellaxis, and the overreach of a company that controls your utilities, food, stores, rights, and medical care only for profit is not hard to imagine.

This is a fast, tight book that bounces between video game scenes, real-life battles, and domestic scenes that are all about the struggle for survival. Sometimes I wish I had longer transition scenes, but it's not hard at all to relate to Mal. How to protect yourself while helping others. What to do with information only you have. Striving for change, without knowing exactly what that change would be.

This is a solid book well worth the read.

#ace books #aro books #ace things #asexuality #asexual #aro ace characters #book recs #queer books #queer scifi #sciencefiction #cyperpunk #corporate dystopia #firebreak

[nando161mando]

End corporate bailouts.

#End corporate bailouts #bailouts #corporate greed #corporategifting #corporate gifts #boeing #avocado toast #jerktrillionaires #jerkbillionaires #jerkmillionaires #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #class war #capitalism #anti capitalist #capitalist hell #capitalist dystopia #capitalist bullshit #anti capitalism #anticapitalista

[astromechapunk]

Wallace Corporation - Blade Runner 2049 designed by George Hull

#blade runner 2049 #concept design #sci-fi #dystopia #cyberpunk art #wallace corporation #tyrell corporation #denis villeneuve #george hull

[thoughtportal]

In this episode we explore a relatively new subgenre of science fiction called Solarpunk, which aims to imagine better, more ecologically harmonious, futures on earth. In many ways Solarpunk is a reaction to both the real-world climate crisis and to the many apocalyptic visions of collapse filling our screens. Andrew Sage from the YouTube channel Andrewism joins host Jonathan McIntosh and friend of the show Carl Williams for this conversation.

References & Links • The Andrewism YouTube Channel • Walkaway by Cory Doctorow • Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach • Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation • Fighting for the Future edited by Phoebe Wagner  • Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler • Princess Mononoke from Studio Ghibli • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin • Emergency Skin by N. K. Jemisin • Monk and Robot book series by Becky Chambers • Dear Alice from THE LINE • Dear Alice’ Decommodified Edition by Waffle To The Left • Our History Is the Future by Nick Estes • 3000-Year-Old Solutions to Modern Problems by Lyla June  • Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

#Solarpunk and How We Escape Dystopia #pop culture detective #pop culture #solarpunk #solar punk #podcast #podcasts #cultural criticism #cultural critique #movies #film #tv #books #literature #corporate media #climate crisis #environmental activism #activism #collective action #water protectors #land back

[rezqrecovery]

https://rezq.space/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/REZQ-Excerpt-Earth.pdf

Hi everyone

i realised I never posted this here - anyone who has been interested in the worldbuilding and hypertext storytelling I've been doing over at rezq.space may be interested in this excerpt from a longer form story I am working on.

The overall story broadly concerns Thom, a depressive young doglike guy trying to work and live in the dystopian hypercapitalist spacefaring future where gravity is rationed, the value of money pinballs unpredictably from second to second, and patent trolling causes shortages of basic staples. Originally a gig worker for a last-mile space courier based on what was once known as Earth, he becomes a deep space rescue worker by default when the entire business that he was contracting for is bought out and shut down by REZQ, a new breed of ruthlessly profiteering company. REZQ putatively provides recovery services to people whose spacecraft get into trouble in deep space, but they are more controlling, ruthless, and . Alone and untrained aboard the giant empty vessel Angel Fish, can Thom keep his job - and his mind?

This excerpt concerns a short bit of context and scene setting on Thom's home planet (we would know it as Earth, but its name changes according to who happens to be sponsoring it at that time). I'd be really keen for any feedback or thoughts on any element of this. I'd like to continue it but it's obviously early days, and it's always hard for original setting things to find an audience if they don't conform to things that are already wildly popular. Thank you!

#fiction #sci-fi #fic #my fic #my fiction #my fic writing #original setting #original character #dystopia #hypercapitalist #space #future #corporate future #story #furry #anthro #anthro fiction #furry fiction #furry writing

[vvellerr]

i just KNOW this next album is going to be fire

#dedf1sh #acht splatoon #splatoon #splatoon 3 #splatoon fanart #side order #eyestrain #vell's art #me when im stuck in the corporate dystopia with my favourite music artist who was presumed dead 5 years ago

[mattsmemes]

#meme #mattsmemes #memes that make you go hmmm #corporate dystopia #accurate #kids these days #police #library #misplaced priorities

[quimbyflether]

#free gaza #gaza #palestine #free palestine #free gaza 🇵🇸 #free palestine 🇵🇸 #tel aviv #capitalism where everyone wins except you #middle class #capitalism is hell #capitalism is a disease #capitalist hell #capitalist dystopia #capitalist propaganda #capitalist keep the middle and poor down #capitalism is evil #child safety #pregnant woman #pregnant refugee #israel is killing children #children rights #developing countries #please donate #fuck disney #international women's day #israel is a settler colony #indigenous rights #corporate greed #muslim community #reblog to save a life

[strainthepain]

I'm really tired of success stories

ok, hear me out . Every "inspiring" story is about some underprivileged person who "pulled themselves up by their bootstraps" and worked their way to the top. But this isn't a reality, all it does is keeps people in bad situations working harder and harder hoping they'll make their way up the chain, but it never happens. I'd love a success story about an underprivileged person who works hard, but just doesn't get anywhere. Then they just say "fuck this. I'm not going anywhere in this fucked up system, to let's fix it". And so they do. They work hard to fix the problems in society, and they eventually succeed. I'd much rather inspire people to fight against a system that holds everyone where they "belong", than a story about someone changing where they "belong".

#anti capitalist #capitalist dystopia #capitalist hell #socialism #social justice #corporations suck #economics #counterculture