Hope you have 40 acres of arable land and some practice raising livestock because that's exactly where we're heading. Don't worry though. Not only will you sign in to every location your employer, friends, family, and even the bar you go to will check your social credit. Supported a movement 10 years ago that is now frowned upon? Enjoy being leper. Voted the wrong way last election? How's 10 years of social isolation sound? Don't worry at least they'll have TV and internet at the re-education camps. You'll be able to get a steady diet of far left propaganda until you finally love big brother. Afterall, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. “He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
"Why would one worry about that, if hes not involved in any illegal activity ?" It's the same mentality during Nazi times. Nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide. Humans don't evolve do we?!
"Hope you have 40 acres of arable land and some practice raising livestock because that's exactly where we're heading. Don't worry though. Not only will you sign in to every location your employer, friends, family, and even the bar you go to will check your social credit. Supported a movement 10 years ago that is now frowned upon? Enjoy being leper. Voted the wrong way last election? How's 10 years of social isolation sound? Don't worry at least they'll have TV and internet at the re-education camps. You'll be able to get a steady diet of far left propaganda until you finally love big brother. Afterall, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia." Owning vast acres of land to survive will probably not be an option. Sending the troops over to confiscate your property or invent a new tax for you. Talking about confiscation, history tells us "Civil Asset Forfeiture" is nothing new when the State is desperate for funding. It's not ending well in my opinion. Violent civil unrest might just be brewing everywhere. When a person has no job, no savings, no home because of certain questionable policies, they have nothing to lose.
LOL signing in?! Do you honestly think the gov etc. don't know exactly where you are every second of every day already? And couldn't find you an instant if they wanted?
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There's one big reason.... if people know they are being actively monitored via algorithms powered by artificial intelligence, which is literally still in its infancy.... it will force the entire culture to subconsciously create and then conform to an "accepted" social norm. This then stifles the number one thing the human race has going for it. Creativity. You know I've always said, if Stephen King were a teenager today and he published a draft of one his early works on FB.... they'd kick down his door and cart him away.
Well its not really defying logic is it. Since governments trashed the economy by forcing everyone to stay home they have duty to print money for peoples salaries. Otherwise noone would stay home and obey. So in this crisis yeah the governments have peoples and at least large companies backs. That combined with progress on vaccines is the logic of why prices are back near all time highs.
Only that kind of creativity, which does not serve any purpose/or even damages the current regime. All other types of creativity, probably would prosper as it used to be : Also the creativity and genius is already being punished (was punished prior out human history, burning scientist on spikes), even in the US and western world as a whole, here's why : timestamped : Noneless, folks still make it trough the web. Creativity is the side effect of high cognitive ability, not the other way around. In the worst case scenario, creative person, probably always would find a way to get out of such regime. Thus, punching line, don't see that as the major problem. Creativity being restrained due monitoring all the time. Any regime would fail without creative ones. Things would become to frozen, stagnation. With limitations, even the worst regimes, will allow the creative ones to flourish/blossom. (up to a certain point where they take off all of their holdings , e.g Jack Ma and CCP, tho the person ain't that of a genius in a first place)