I was looking through her other stuff and realised I've seen her Westworld video
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Best never let anyone know what you did. The Oasis,(Going by the book) also serves as virtual class rooms and across the country communications/business/shopping due to the gas shortage. So collapsing that means many people will be after your head.
...no, he means actual education. There's an entire world dedicated to nothing but school. Like, actual school. Not 80s shit. Do you not remember the entire beginning of the book?
Alright, I am actually interested. What would you propose replacing it with in the universe of RPO? That's a worthy topic. Public Education is being provided to anyone with access to a helmet/terminal/whatever (Which would probably be cheaper than traditional school supplies), so what could you replace it with that would function as cheap as virtual reality, as widely accessible as virtual reality, and that has capabilities of a holodeck? Heck, another thing to add to the pile, it's way easier to keep control. Students can't assault others, they can't disrupt class physically, and a myriad of other things that would make teachers lives easier. This is one of the very positive things about RPO, even if it says negative things about the universe.
"We provide a private alternative to public education, one that's in many ways logistically superior and otherwise superior to what the public sector could offer!"
Not what it means.
It has a monopoly (at best) over the stuff it invented/discovered/researched/developed. They just so happened to come up with something that's better than what the state offers. Even assuming that they have a monopoly on some patent that enables OASIS, patents have a finite lifetime specifically to balance the rights of the individual vs. the interests of the collective. If there isn't a patent that is the source of the monopoly, then the government is free to built its own infrastructure, just like it does in states with a healthy policy of public education.
You always plan for what could happen, even if it won't.
You do. But you don't proverbially shoot people first and ask questions later. You don't infringe on people's right just because maybe they'll do something wrong in the future. Unless you think the trigger happy USAian cop mentality is the way people should behave.
Of course corps aren't people, but they don't need to be. They're just a legal tool for optimising the handling of some rights of the people (e.g. making collective ownership of stuff and bankruptcies more handleable etc.).
So all the power should be with that company because they did it first?
