“Way back in the old days, when I was a boy before the Chiasm, big tech corporations manipulated information for profit.”
“Wow! What’s a corporation?”
“Yeah Dad, and what’s a profit?”
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Friday fictioneers is a weekly challenge set by Rochelle Wisoff Fields to write a 100-word story in response to a photo prompt. You can find other stories here
Neil MacDonald Author 
Dear Neil,
Nuff said. Frightening commentary in few words.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks so much, Rochelle. Frightening? A world without big corporations? I’m not sure
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What worries me is what replaced them. Good one, brief but succinct.
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Well. as in every era, a natural and entirely common sense arrangement. Thanks so much, Sandra
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I hope they have achieved utopia. It sounds like that.
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Thanks so much
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“We don’t need them Dad, we’ve got artificial intelligence now!”
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“Be careful what you wish for, son”
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At least we know there is still human life after corporations end.
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Yes, but not as we know it
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That’s about as far into the future as I want to imagine. Great take.
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Thanks so much, Violet
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Can you imagine a world where all the vocabulary of capitalism suddenly has no meaning? Sounds pretty good to me.
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Thanks so much, David
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Short but to the point. Nailed it, Neil. If only we didn’t know or have corporations
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Thanks so much, Laurie. Well, once we had guilds and livery companies, and who remembers them now
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Maybe a glimpse into the future???
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A possible future anyway
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Sometimes, few words are necessary to get the message across as you have so succintly shown us. No corporations could be nice…
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Thanks so much, Dale
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Now, that’s a future I look forward to. Nicely done, Neil, so much said in very few words!
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Thanks so much, Brenda
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Great flash, Neil. Spot on!
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Thanks so much, Nancy
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A future without corporation perhaps, but without profit? That would be heaven 🙂
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Thanks so much, Dahlia
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we keep changing and call it development
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And creating a desolation and calling it peace
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that is one point of view
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It’s a quote from Tacitus
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Wouldn’t mind some of the big corporations going the way of the Dodo, but no profits doesn’t sound very sound.
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Thanks so much, Dawn
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