Yep cyberpunk still perpetuates the idea that corporations are highly competent and innovators, which just doesn’t seem to be true in our current reality. The MBA/financial people have taken over and people that actually want to make cool stuff are no longer in control
Republicans also block national ID implementations and other methods to make getting an ID easier. So the left correctly calls them out on the bullshit. If we had similar ID systems as those countries, I don’t think the left would care.