It's worth pointing out as well though, a lot of the people who write most well known cyberpunk are leftists and aren't that deep to begin with. They're usually surface level thinkers and anti-capitalist types which is why whenever corpos do bad stuff it's usually profit motivated among other things. Ghost in the shell is a great example I would point to of exploring concepts like this. They even address the thorny issue in some of the episodes of a disabled kid who wanted to get cybernetic parts but his parents forbid it because of their religious beliefs.

It's precisely because the writers are all leftists I would argue, that corpos can never be the 'good guys' in any capacity or they simply don't allow you to play as the bad guys properly in pretty much any Cyberpunk I can think of. Yes, this includes Cyberpunk 2077, I was so hoping to be some corpo enforcer that rises up to the top as an executive but CD Projekt Red couldn't manage that and I blame ideology for that one because it would be too squeamish of a concept for SJWs.

Yes I'm aware in Cyberpunk 2077 you technically get the 'Arisaka' ending but even that's still painted as V getting screwed over by evil corpos and having no choice but to go into the digital ghost prison to save himself.

It's worth pointing out as well though, a lot of the people who write most well known cyberpunk are leftists and aren't that deep to begin with. They're usually surface level thinkers and anti-capitalist types which is why whenever corpos do bad stuff it's usually profit motivated among other things. Ghost in the shell is a great example I would point to of exploring concepts like this. They even address the thorny issue in some of the episodes of a disabled kid who wanted to get cybernetic parts but his parents forbid it because of their religious beliefs.

It's precisely because the writers are all leftists I would argue, that corpos can never be the 'good guys' in any capacity or they simply don't allow you to play as the bad guys properly in pretty much any Cyberpunk I can think of. Yes, this includes Cyberpunk 2077, I was so hoping to be some corpo enforcer that rises up to the top as an executive but CD Projekt Red couldn't manage that and I blame ideology for that one because it would be too squeamish of a concept for SJWs.