We live in a cyberpunk dystopia but the corporate overlords don't even have cool names. (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by Moss@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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We don't have companies called Militech or anything, we have companies named shit like Poob. Palantir is the only suitably evil sounding company

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[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Remove the context(or maybe don't) and 'Elon Musk' is a perfect cyberpunk baddie name, 'Elon' sounds exotic and even futuristic to the western ear(tbh it used to remind me of the 'Eloi' from The Time Machine when I'd just heard the name and didn't know much about him), and Musk implies he's a no-good stinky doo-doo head