You wanna talk plot holes in GitS we have the geopolitics of two world wars, one of which nuclear, and the fact that America even exists after that at all, seeing as the Japanese Miracle wasn’t deployed there until afterward.
Also the idea (from the Standalone complex series) that Salami Slicing would be a valid and profitable way to make money. Salami slicing only worked because hard currency didn’t have the resolution of the market transactions conducted via digital representation. By the time GitS happens there is no more hard currency.
