Wouldn’t that require that the corp employees use hot sim VR? I guess we won’t know until unwired comes out with a psychotropic attack program…

You're thinking small scale. The megas would tell you that they were tampering with your water supply. Up front and everything. They'd say that they were putting in special additives that made you more resilient to infection, more healthy, more alive.

And then they'd slip a little Methylphenidate into the water supply - just enough to make people slightly more focused and awake, and just enough to get people to be slightly dependent upon the water supply of the arcology.

Secret tampering is for people who don't own the local news outlet.

-Frank

and then if someone analyses the water, you blame it on runners sent by some other mega (complete with video evidence), and put it back to normal for a while until no one is looking again.

well, first off i suspect that more people have and use hotsim than most people assume. BTLs are highly addictive, fairly widespread, and unlike physical drugs do not require you to actually go someplace dangerous in the meat to obtain the drug. furthermore, a hotsim module is most likely not recognisable as a hotsim module until it has been opened up or otherwise analysed. i mean, let's face it, BTL sex alone is gonna bring in a lot of customers. so long as the employee doesn't let it interfere with work too much, they won't care. if it becomes a problem, fire them. there's a hundred people who would gladly take the job for every one you fire.

and, of course, there's always the possibility that there's a milder form, as i said, possible with normal simsense. if nothing else, you could to some extent condition the employees by giving them simsense loyalty, job satisfaction, etc. even if not psychotropic, that doesn't mean you can't condition them with it.