“If you decide to go with your ego and not with your head, you are leaving behind dozens of wealthy people from all over the world who will know that** you performed market manipulation** and stole from them. They know who you are, you don’t know who they are. It took them less than 5 minutes to find out exactly where you live … how often you see your lovely parents … and exactly who your … brothers and sisters are.”

So the guy threatening the journalist to change his story so the gambler can make money isn’t market manipulation, but the journalist not changing his story is…

What scary about this, and it was mentioned in the article, is how future stories by less than ethical “journalist” can be purchased so that one side can become rich. Fuck accuracy it’s all about the money.

Well it’s not like that is already the case with social media, but I would like to think there is at least some aspect of reporting that is based in ethics and truth.

It’s one of those things that would seem excessive in a story.

A place so decadent that everything was to bet for. Even as the world ended around them, they gambled on how.

Cyberpunk was supposed to by a dystopia, not a fucking instruction manual!

But seriously, I’ve lost about all enjoyment in cyber-dystopian stories because these days it cuts far too close to home.