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[anotheroldfashioned]

[This device. Is absolutely. Fantastic. And he is going to do everything in his power to hide his absolute glee at being able to use it.]

I'll get right to the point. My name is Donald Draper, Don to my friends, and I am looking for a job in sales. Or more specifically advertisement.

This would be the part where I offer references, but ending up here-

[And being incredibly out of his depth]

Well. I've got some sample specs and a portfolio and I have skill. And if you happen to be from my time and know Coca Cola or Kodak or Lucky Strike cigarettes then you've probably seen my work. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have. I can either be reached here or I'll be at the museum helping with the posters and advertisements for it.

[The longest pause.]

...Anybody else think this thing is amazing? Or is it just me?

Comments

[ocelthot]

Of course it is, more so once mercenary work becomes a major part of the economy.

Instead of governments sending a bunch of young men to fight and die in a third world country's war for the newest pissing contest between first world countries, governments will start paying companies to send a bunch of young people to fight and die in a third world country's war for the newest pissing contest between first world countries.

[anotheroldfashioned]

Companies? what like - coca cola sending people off to die?

[That...he's trying to wrap his mind around it to try and figure it out. He's before security firms. And honestly he was engineering corps. He knows nothing.]

So we beat Russia but not communism. I'm still stuck on that. I thought that was Russia's thing and you people would all just die to protect it.

[ocelthot]

Sort of, companies do specialize, but corporations have so many layers, subsidiaries and straight up fake branches these days, if you dig deep enough you find shit like Disney owning three private militaries. Once you get to the fun stories like Pepsi briefly owning seventeen soviet submarines things get truly wild.



After eight years of being sent to fight in Afghanistan on universal military obligation, most Russians were sick of the union.

And then the religious extremists that America provided with training and hardware decided they didn't really like the Americans all that much either, so America got to do the same thing.

[anotheroldfashioned]

Hold on America trained religious extremists?

[This is a complicated answer because - he is a product of his time. This is a guy who is an unintentional part of Operation Mockingbird (disseminating pro-American propaganda to blind major Americans. As well as benefit of operation paperclip (real world history dark 1950s and 60s American history.

The problem with being a part of stuff like that is you are also subject to it. Brainwashed by it. So when you think religious extremist you think of the other - the different and unusual and it's very hard to imagine America training the other.

Don has a lot to learn. Right now he's amused by the other option.]

But more importantly, the submarines. Because Pepsi should have painted them and used them for something.

[ocelthot]

Proxy wars don't exactly take much into account beyond 'are they the enemy of your enemy?' and 'are they willing to accept help?' Take the Cuban missile crisis for example.

[At least the inciting incident, since the background in diffusing that is a touch different for Ocelot than in other timelines. Not that Ocelot would know it.]

Pepsi sold the submarines and war ships for scrap, kept the oil tankers they got out of the deal to rent out. They were also able to keep Coca Cola locked out of the market for a while.

[anotheroldfashioned]

You make it sound like some kinda...what's the word. Where people live in a world that hurts them.

The opposite of a Utopian.