system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Shadowrun] How much does the "man on the street" know about shadowrunning and shadowrunners?

Once you get over a certain level in the corporate world, deniable operations are a fact of life, but how much does the average person know about what their bosses are up to? Are they aware that one of their managers is "Mr. Johnson"? Do they know that the "hot new forecast intel" was acquired by a decker, or that one of the new R&D guys was 'recruited' at gunpoint? When they show up on Monday to find the janitors patching bullet holes, what do they think?
gpt
Depends on who we're talking. As you've identified, anybody upper-middle-class or higher is likely to have skin in the game somehow.

The working class? Demagoguery, mostly. Scary silvered-up orks with guns in the shadows, coming to take you away because you technically work for the people they murderously hate (this is why having street cred is important). Likely quite a few are unable to make the distinction between Shadowrunner and Neo-Anarchist, let alone where and how they intersect. If a community *has* a neo-anarchist presence, they might be better informed and not listen to corp media.

Gangs and policlubs are in the know for how often they get targeted, of course. The smart ones, anyway. Humanis probably has meetings over it and shit. Same deal with ghouls, same reason.

Dregs are probably the group with the highest knowledge-to-numbers of shadowrunning. Always good for some nuyen if you get a reputation for real tips. Occasionally bleeding hearts who'll get you a serious score. Plus, runners are always in their areas hiding out from cops and response teams anyway.