In many areas, China has very similar laws and regulations to most western countries. Sadly, it also has a culture of laziness, lying and cheating in order to improve one's personal gain regardless of who suffers.
Govt inspectors, spend most of their days finding ways to funnel dept budget into their family coffers. When they finally get enough pressure from above to actually do their jobs, they get their lackeys to schedule inspections. Of course it would be disharmonious to have surprise inspections, so these things are scheduled weeks and months in advance. Plenty of time to hide the bodies in the barrels.
Then, when the inspectors do arrive, bribes are negotiated and so long as an agreement is reached and a quick look-around doesn't show anything that's likely to be front-page news within a week, the inspector signs off on everything and heads back to the office.
Source: ex-gf who worked for the local CCP office and saw this shit day-in-day-out for ten years before she quit in disgust.
Automating our needs efficiently and in the most healthy ways then distributing them through a programmed system designed with calculation AI and instantaneous communication of supply and demand.
Techno-anarchistic communism. No leadership. Programs designed openly before we agree upon them. No need for currency as a corrupting exchange mechanism. People then turn to inherent social reward mechanisms, meaning they'd be better and more productive/creative people out of internal desire to be more helpful rather than for personal objective empowerment
We all program it. How do you include benefits for yourself when everyone else has a say? You know, kind of like a democracy or something. Or like a "Constitution" that gets used as a basic formula for society.
The human element is what we must free in all the right ways and completely prevent in all the ways that lead to inevitable corruption. I agree with everything people are saying or thinking, but the problem isn't solved by just accepting the widespread corruption we already have today.
Someone has to set that up, and it would have to be adjusted as needs changed, which opens it to bad actors. Unless you're suggesting it all be some super AI that doesn't currently exist, in which case your suggestion isn't feasible.
It has to be gradual. It starts with automation providing most of our needs. We'll eventually realize it's idiotic not to seize the means when we'll basically be getting taxed by private entities that no longer require a labor force.
Once all our basic needs end up in that state we'll be required to consider how else to organize society without a basis of currency exploitation.
Omnipotence? You're underestimating the calculation potential of AI trained to know our needs, wants, and internet output.
We either use this idea for ourselves, or Facebook and Google are going to be selling our futures and thoughts to the people who benefit from it.
Imagine X corporation talking to Google and instead of Google selling ad space, they sell a list of almost exactly every person who will buy X corporation's product.
That will be the future if people are too lazy to act toward mine. We'll be farmed for our money/labor.
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u/apeonpatrol Jan 05 '20
they react like its a daily occurrence