It’s much easier to organize the workers under feudalism, because they’ll be in the same places slaving away together under the same king. In cyberpunk, everyone lives in isolated pods and gets their news through the corpo networks. The few interactions they have with other people are in subcultures and gangs, but every other gang will be “an enemy” even though they’re the same class.
There’s also no obvious “king” to rally against. Neuromancer has the Tessier-Ashpools, but they’re smart enough to live in space and stay out of the public eye. Some corporations are more like sentient beings, where even the C-suite only live to serve the machine. Who’s going to overthrow Hosaka when it provides millions with jobs and stability? And how? The only entity with the means and the motive would be another corp, which doesn’t change the system so much as the name on a building.
It’s much easier to organize the workers under feudalism, because they’ll be in the same places slaving away together under the same king. In cyberpunk, everyone lives in isolated pods and gets their news through the corpo networks. The few interactions they have with other people are in subcultures and gangs, but every other gang will be “an enemy” even though they’re the same class.
There’s also no obvious “king” to rally against. Neuromancer has the Tessier-Ashpools, but they’re smart enough to live in space and stay out of the public eye. Some corporations are more like sentient beings, where even the C-suite only live to serve the machine. Who’s going to overthrow Hosaka when it provides millions with jobs and stability? And how? The only entity with the means and the motive would be another corp, which doesn’t change the system so much as the name on a building.