D had been thinking about how to destroy this world.
Of course, he did not mean destroy it in the physical sense. In fact, even if D used a nuclear bomb to turn this planet into a wasteland or blast it into pieces, that would not destroy this world. On the contrary, it would merely "fix" the fact of "humanity's destruction" in this world and give it concrete form.
So if destroying this world did not mean destroying it physically, he needed to consider the matter from another angle.
D had been in this world for a month. During that month, he had been busy gathering all kinds of intelligence, and he had discovered a problem—this was an extremely pure capitalist world. It could be said that the world had become what it was because multinational corporate giants had monopolized technology, money, and everything humanity needed. The governments that should have been managing the nations had almost all submitted to the financial oligarchs.
The reason Night City was special was that it lay between the two political entities of New America and the Free State, making it an independent city-state. The only reason it could remain independent was that the entire city was controlled by capital. Arasaka Corporation and Militech were the biggest players, while the other corporations also fought openly and covertly over the city.
Under these circumstances, individuals truly could not compete with capital, because the latter controlled everything in the city.
In an ordinary world, overthrowing such a system would have been extremely difficult.
Fortunately, however, this was a Cyberpunk world.
A godforsaken place where people crazily stuffed all kinds of components and chips into their bodies.
And as it happened, all those things needed to be connected to the net.
Then there was no problem.
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