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Colossus By Design: Rise of Super Corporations

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  1. [Working Title]: Economics in the 22nd Century
  2. [Authors]: Barney "The Dark Knight" Wayne, Ned Landerz
  3. [Subjects]: Rise of the Super-Corporations
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  7. [Subject]: Rise of the Super-Corporations
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  9. [Footnotes]:
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  13. (Barney): Testing, testing, test--
  14.  
  15. (Ned): Shut up, Barney! It works!
  16.  
  17. (Barney): Sorry! I'm just never sure with these things, you know?
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  19. (Ned): Just start us off.
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  21. (Barney): Alright, alright! So, I'm Barney Wayne, and this is Ned Landerz. Both of us are from Goliath Super-National Bank. You might be wondering..... how did our company, as well as several others, get so big? Well, we have to go the very start of--
  22.  
  23. (Ned): November 3, 2151. The day the Legion were officially defeated. Roughly one year before the first prototype Guardian Sentinels were ready for active-duty.
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  25. (Barney): I was going to spice up our origin story, Ned!
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  27. (Ned): Readers don't wanna be bored by your lame ass storytelling, Barney the dinosa--
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  29. (Barney): DON'T YOU EVEN!
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  31. (Ned): Whatever. When the Legion was beaten fifteen years ago, there was a sudden realization by the Global Union of Divisions that they needed to get their shit together and start building up humanity's defenses. And that's where mega-corporations came in. Okay, Barney, now you can go.
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  33. (Barney): Finally, goddammit! Now, during this time, mega-corporations were small-fry compared to what they are now, seeing as how, in the late twenty-first century following World War Three, the governments around the world decided to imposed major taxes on the large corporations around the world to finance the global recuperation efforts, whilst simultaneously making the corporations a government asset. Better now, Ned?
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  35. (Ned): Much better. My turn again. So, long story short, mega-corporations were no more. However, over the years, we started to re-accumulate our former wealth and prosperous glory, slowly building our independence back up.
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  37. (Barney): And of course, once the G.U.D. realized they needed serious help to get the first Guardian Sentinels into mass production, they came to us folks at the then-named Goliath National Bank.
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  39. (Ned): We negotiated with the Earth's governing body, eventually striking a deal with a multitude of companies to have nearly total independence from the government in exchange for unrestricted access to our resources and funding. It was at this point that the mega-corporation was moved out of the way for the super-corporation, with which we incorporated into our company's name.
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  41. (Barney): Among the main companies are the likes of Black Panther Industries, S-Death Materials, STRQ Industries, and Kellogg's, handling natural resources, commercial and military manufacturing, advanced robotics, and food production, respectively.
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  43. (Ned): Not bad, Barney. Although you need to word your pitch better.
  44.  
  45. (Barney): Really? I thought I did alright.
  46.  
  47. (Ned): You were to the point, but didn't convey... errrm.... "pizzazz".
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  49. (Barney): Pizzazz?
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  51. (Ned): Hey, you're the young one, not me. I'm just the expert here.
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  53. (Barney): I'm an executive member of the GSNB board too you know!
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  55. (Ned): Yes, but you're only there because of your expertise from your time at STRQ Industries.
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  57. (Barney): I still don't understand why you struck a deal with my old company in Brazil.
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  59. (Ned): Let's just say........ an opportunity arose, and we struck a deal.
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  61. (Barney): Oh..... okay then. By the way, why did corporations move the word "mega" out for "super" anyways?
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  63. (Ned): I don't know. Something about some franchise about magical wishing orbs and superpowered fights with ludicrously overpowered human-sized characters using the moniker in their latest outing.
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  65. (Barney): I think I know that one. Still strikes me as odd that "super" came after "mega", but whatever. We're getting off topic now, aren't we?
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  67. (Ned): I'd say we've overstayed our welcome. End recording, datapad.
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