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.
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Science Fiction | Roleplaying Games | Money

Rich People Murdered the World | Cy_Borg

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The Ugly Monster
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6 min readJan 16, 2023

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“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…

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Oscar
The Ugly Monster

Publisher and Chief Editor of The Ugly Monster and Getting Into Chess. News junkie. Music lover. Game fanatic. Anti-conservative. Societal disaster.