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Assumes 'the government' is effective and focussed. Mine can't get the garbage picked up on time. Not gonna worry about that one.
by JoeAltmaier 3y ago
Assumes 'the government' is effective and focussed. Mine can't get the garbage picked up on time. Not gonna worry about that one.
- almatabata 3y agoIt could become focused if the situation justifies it. It does not have to start immediately as the dark plot described. Let us say we have a massive amount of casualties due to some accident. So as an emergency the government suggests to create a new crop of humans to replace the dead as a stopgap solution to get the country running normally again in 15 years or so. I think you could sell that to the population and companies would cooperate to achieve that goal initially. Now again afterwards you would need to somehow conspire to continue the program to undermine your democracy. Probably this extreme case will never happen. But we could get into a sort in between zone where we still have an immoral usage of the technology but not as bad as it could be. Note however that existing dictatorships will definitely try to use this to further their own goals.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoUnlikely. It's so, so much cheaper and decades faster, to affect the minds of existing voters.
- anon291 3y agoI often hear this argument, and while I (an american) often make this about my local government or even my local federal bureaucrats, the idea that the American government in particular is not effective and focused is just... completely wrong. No government in modern history has been so able to simply enforce its will via sheer force. The top brass of the American government is the epitome of effective and focussed. It really doesn't matter what the manager of your local DMV is like.