An illustration of a rain-soaked future street. Neon colors on a black background. A woman wearing black clothes and a yellow headscarf crosses the street. She has a skeletal cyber leg. A muscle car with spikes on the rear section drives away from the viewer. Silhouettes of people enter a surface train. The train has illegible graffiti on the windshield. The sky on both sides of the street are filled with holographic ads and billboards. It all looks like Vegas in Hell. — Credit: Stockholm Cartel

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Rich People Murdered the World | Cy_Borg

Davos Man hates you, explained with a roleplaying game

Oscar

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The Ugly Monster

6 min readJan 16, 2023

“Nu-Capitalists rule from glass towers in Central. / Immortal OG Money Aristocrats in gated mansions, in gated communities, in gated enclaves in the Hills.”
- Cy_Borg, page 6

This week the Bastards of the Universe will gather in Davos for an orgy of influence formally known as the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.

In an alternate universe, President Katy Porter will order a B3 to bomb the site. Afterwards, it will be revealed that all the servers, janitors, and fake activists and government officials were really terminal cancer patients who volunteered to keep up appearances and lull the various CEOs and investors into a false sense of security. They will all receive medals posthumously.

I want to move to that universe.

Davos is full of supervillans who either think they’re heroes, or know they’re villains and don’t care. They’re just buying time and scoring PR points. This is all possible because of the clueless activists who think they can convince The Rich to actually follow through on their zillion dollar pledges.

Rich people should not run the world. They’re not that great at anything other than ripping people off.

A two page spread, pages 10 and 11 in Cy_Borg. The left includes text describing Central Y…the rest of the name is glitched out. The right side shows a towntown “street” with is actually a canal. Boats run up and down in like a typical street. On both sides the sidewalks are impossibly crowded. Above the sidewalks the, holographic ads form a wall hundreds of feet high and infinintly long, all the way down the street. Down the block is a giant black skyscraper with red lights. It is raining. — Credit: Stockholm Cartel

Cy_Borg is bluntly anti-Rich and anti-Corporate

“The crimes here are white collar: financial, high yields, low convictions. The rich remain above the law.”
— Cy_Borg, page 10

In Cy_Borg, Rich People might as well be gods. They live in The Hills behind mountains of security. They are untouchable, immoral, and possibly immortal. The Rich get away with everything.