[ Both of Viktor's answers are relatable, and V can't help but nod because yeah, he gets that. Making use of whatever's around is how he was brought up and, even after he settled in Night City temporarily, it was still an important way of life for him. He won't go into the details of how, if nomads had let society categorize them as poor, he'd have likely sat in a similar wealth bracket as Viktor had.
It's been a long time since he learned that lesson about what society will try to dictate about socio-economic status and therefore personality and morality, if a person let it. ]
One o' the first tests as a nomad kid is if ya paid enough attention to your family when they were doin' maintenance on the vehicles. Get to a certain age 'n you're expected to have your own vehicle in good enough shape to keep up with wherever the road takes the clan.
[ Learning how those vehicles worked at an early age wasn't a choice so much as a necessity, but it's not one he'd change for anything. ]
Cyberware's roots're in medical advancements. 's where it all started back in the old days. Mostly 'cause people'd come back from the war blown to shit, and slowly the prosthetics that were made got better and better. Still ain't accessible to everybody now. There's a black market for it, chop shops that're 'bout as safe as they sound run under the radar.
[ He pauses, clearly remembering something unpleasant. ]
Problem with NC is if ya got the eddies - the money - you can run the shadiest chop shop you want. Long as ya got eddies to grease the right palms... people in power gonna look the other way. And it's always at the expense of the poorest, most vulnerable people.
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It's been a long time since he learned that lesson about what society will try to dictate about socio-economic status and therefore personality and morality, if a person let it. ]
One o' the first tests as a nomad kid is if ya paid enough attention to your family when they were doin' maintenance on the vehicles. Get to a certain age 'n you're expected to have your own vehicle in good enough shape to keep up with wherever the road takes the clan.
[ Learning how those vehicles worked at an early age wasn't a choice so much as a necessity, but it's not one he'd change for anything. ]
Cyberware's roots're in medical advancements. 's where it all started back in the old days. Mostly 'cause people'd come back from the war blown to shit, and slowly the prosthetics that were made got better and better. Still ain't accessible to everybody now. There's a black market for it, chop shops that're 'bout as safe as they sound run under the radar.
[ He pauses, clearly remembering something unpleasant. ]
Problem with NC is if ya got the eddies - the money - you can run the shadiest chop shop you want. Long as ya got eddies to grease the right palms... people in power gonna look the other way. And it's always at the expense of the poorest, most vulnerable people.