Semi-frequent 'Adjustments' as needed, high corporate/wealth taxes, universal health care, actually using the empty homes to solve the housing crisis
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2024
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Weekly richest person in the world slaughter.
Make up some bs problems and be the one to fix them, I suppose
- build a childhood museum early on
- change all industry buildings from sweat shop to easy does it
- enact the Bribe Faction Leaders, Food for the People, Free Housing, National Day, Social Security, Hola Presidente, Sensitivity Training, Papal Visit, and Pollution Standards edicts
- make sure average pay is above Caribbean pay
- use the cathedral to claim any Tropicans that are peacefully protesting me are heretics
- have a nuclear weapons program to protect against invasion from the US and USSR
- ensure diverse food and entertainment
- hold all scheduled elections and give a speech every each one acknowledging the lowest happiness variable and promising to do something about it, while also praising the least happiest faction
Rig the approve system.
Well, I don't really mind death, and no pets or dependants, and I feel humans have had their run, order sterilisation of everyone all ages. Don't want to kill anyone, just puff out over time, we had our run. Time for something else to have a shot.
Eradicate poverty and cars. Hey guess what drivers, you hate driving, that's why you rush until it's over. So I'll make public transit so fast and reliable that driving will finally be treated as primitive as it actually is.
Free apartments for all. Luxury apartments cost money. Unwanted, dangerous, and unpleasant jobs are automated with AI.
All debt is forgiven and you have a clean slate. Everyone now has a credit score of 700. Kickstart your best life.
Happy population means more locally owned businesses, less crime, less mental illness, less of a declining birth rate.
Hey guess what drivers, you hate driving
I love driving. That’s why I have two cars. A nice, comfortable, efficient, daily driver that makes my commute nice. And a fun car, for when I want fun.
Ah yes, the classic "driving is fun, it's just The People that make it stressful". How many people did you swear at on the road this month? And how many pedestrians did you beep at or inch towards while they were crossing the street?
Where did I say anything about other people in my comment?
All debt? Does that include companies too?
They’ve borrowed at least billions to grow their businesses, and that sort of money won’t just disappear without a trace. In this case, the trace would probably include economic instability of some sort. There’s a reason why central banks use interest rate to influence borrowing and inflation.
How often do these vote cycles occur? I would argue that most distuptive changes will make things worse before they change to the better.
Ending capitalism, forgiving all debt etc. will lead to huge chaos in the short and medium term. Even thought in the long term, it might turn into a much better system, you'd need a lot of time to rebuild society and people to see the positive in it.
I think that's also an issue of today's democracies. If you're elected, you have just a relatively short period of time before the next election. If you aim for big reforms, you might be still in the 'make things worse' phase after the first legislation period and people will vote for an opposing party. They undo everything you did, again making things worse without ever achieving their own vision.
Basically, in this hypothetical, people jusr submit a "approve" or "disapprove" via their brain implant, and it gets instantly gets counted (for "plot magic" reasons okay). Once submitted, it remains that way until the person change it. It can be changed any time.
Example: In the morning, they see news of you giving out money to everyone, check their bank and voila money, they are happy and they vote "Approve". In the afternoon, they get news report of you are helping minorities, and oopsie the same person is also a racist and didn't like that you are helping the minorites which they hate, so they change it to "Disapprove". People could also set it to automatically change to "Disapprove" upon death in order to disincentivise you ordering their execution. If they never summitted any votes, and they die, its also a "Disapprove".
TLDR: There are no "election cycles" you are constantly being judged.
Then, I think your best chances of survival would be being as invisible as possible. Only react to urgent issues, don't address systematic issues and if you're forced to give a statement, remain vague and unclear. It's not great for society in the longterm but I think any disruptive change will make people confused, annoyed, insecure or angry. Even though they get used to the change quickly or even like it, instant voting will be your death sentence.
Another strategy may be to distract people from issues. Sport events, drugs, parties, censorship. Keep up the illusion of everything going well while the world goes down the drain.
Literally the whole process the US just endured. (And has been enduring, and will probably continue to endure) (Please help)
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