Weren't there governments controlling countries of millions of people in FFVII's world who'd resist? Even with advanced technology, how did they have the numbers to do it? Why is there no sign of former nations in FFVII's world outside of Wutai?
How did an electric power company take over the world?
Isaac Davis
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Jaxon Evans
The world consists of a bunch of tiny villages. There is no government.
Connor Harris
It's a fictional video game.
Plus it made a good story. Tard.
Austin Sullivan
The government simply has to be retarded enough to sell out to the electric company. It seems like that's what happened. That, or . If there's no government but you have shitloads of money and manpower/monsterpower, then controlling the world is as easy as pushing a button.
Benjamin Morgan
They had proprietary control of this massively powerful, renewable, seemingly infinite and cheap energy source. It's like saudis with oil in the real world.
Thomas Rivera
Because japanese writers often don't really give a shit about good world building as much as the in the moment story
Jordan Wright
The same way Wily did it in The Protomen's albums. If literally everyone will kiss your ass for something and doesn't want to do the work themselves, you can turn the wheels however you want.
Nathaniel Mitchell
Capitalism can make corporations extraordinarily powerful
Consider that the East India Trading Company had much more power than many countries of the era
Caleb Jackson
>How did an electric power company take over the world?
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Joseph Sanchez
The same way that Amazon and Google took over the world
Landon Morgan
by sourcing porn?
Luis Robinson
by threatening to take the porn away from us if we don't comply
Brandon Anderson
>take part in an anti-Shinra demonstration
>suddenly the power goes out in your whole apartment building
Carter Phillips
fuck shinra
Charles Diaz
What the fuck is wrong with americans?
Leo Nelson
>"Electric Company"
They had access to an army and huge fucking weapons for one thing. Plus science labs creating all manner of shit.
Cameron Hernandez
There’s a mayor of Midgar in Shinra HQ, but he says he’s just Shinra’s puppet. So I assume there’s a nominal government but Shinra is the real power
Nicholas Nguyen
basicaly Tesla of the future if you think about it
Ayden Morales
Control of power == control of the world
look at the oil companies of today, they basically convinced the US to favor highway systems over trains purely so that they could sell more oil to car owners despite high-way systems being less useful to society overall compared to highways
Daniel Harris
They had a guy forcing cetra to take the knot
Jayden Diaz
East India Trading company effectively owned a quarter of the planet back in its prime.
Oliver Sanders
In the US, power companies make a fuck-ton of money. There are some who are so deep in the pockets of local governments they can almost do what they want. Not too many people are going to make a big stink without the fear of sitting in the dark.