What's the most brutal truth you've learned?

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[–]pijk 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I see where you are coming from. You might find this and this article interesting. Let me know what you think! I'm not their author by the way. They were written by George Hotz.

[–]Mcheetah 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I almost completely agree with the idea of Wireheading City and had a similar idea myself. Except nowadays, that's just San Francisco. We might as well call it a loss and make it a quarantined homeless zone.

My idea was to first, make being (willingly) homeless illegal and punishable by law. Second, I'd take all the current homeless, provide them with free bare-minimum government housing sheds, along with free water, the cheapest food we can give them (ramen and rice, maybe), free mental health counseling, and minimal electricity, in an area 10 miles away from any city, like in Nevada or Wyoming or something. All 100% paid for by taxes. And in exchange, they have to do all of the most labor intensive, low-pay jobs in society and have to stay there semi-permanently. These homeless would be doing jobs like sewage workers, custodial staff, road paving, etc. Young women can even be consenting low-cost sex workers provided they're clean and can pass the mental health checks. (It'd be a hell of a lot better than OnlyFans whores, at least.) They'd all be monitored 24/7 by guards while working and have CCTV in their shed town.

Basically, it'd be like prison combined with indentured servitude. They'd get paid $2 to $4 an hour, only because all of their basic living needs are being met, so they have no actual need for income. If someone is willfully homeless (drug addicts, lazy bums, etc), they'd be arrested and forced to stay there instead of actual prison. Any attempts to leave and they'll be shot on site. And if someone is struggling and homeless not-by-choice, they can have a safe place to live until they can work their way into affording normal housing. And best of all, it's far away from actual civilization, has a huge chainlink fence surrounding the whole compound, and all government workers and guards keeping it running have to take a shuttle bus to get in and out. It's win-win for everyone.

So yeah, I think I fully agree with this guy. For both articles. The second one is basically Starship Trooper's stratocracy. "Service guarantees citizenship! (Would you like to know more?)"

Thank you for passing along the information to me.

[–]pijk 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No problem! If you want to read more of his stuff make sure to read the rest of his blog. That should only take you around and hour since most of his posts are quite short and easy to understand. While most of the other posts don't talk about the wireheading city I still think you will find them interesting since this guy has quite a number of interesting ideas.