notfromhere

So explain why violent crimes plummeted when PlayStation and GTA came out. It’s lead poisoning from leaded gasoline. We cut that out and it’s been trending down. If violent video games have any impact, it’s likely to reduce physical violence instead of increase it.

So not efficacy

Only if psychological effects could impact the result. That doesn’t apply with vaccines, does it?

Not with that attitude!

FUBAR (Fucked/Fouled Up Beyond All/Any Repair/Recognition/Reason)

That’s where things like decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) and smart contracts could come into play. Maybe we could start implementing this without ever involving the government at all.

I agree with the socialism part, but I’m not picking up on the authoritarian overtones. I would want a system like this to be flexible to meet the basic living needs of each person and would view it as more of a stepping stone to a post-scarcity society.

Basically ration it. Citizen #1346733 each month is allowed:

• two loaves of bread (any ingredient makeup as individuals have individual needs)
• Standard Issue: house credit
• Standard Issue: water credit
• Standard Issue: electric credit
• etc.

Standard Issue Credits are expected to cover the complete cost of the median citizen’s usage. Citizens can pool credits to afford larger houses, e.g., families of four would have 4x credits to spend.

This is extremely easy to implement with (evil, no good) blockchain, have government issue them, citizens spend them, merchants resell them back to government.

I wonder if microplastics can be found in older samples as well. Do microplastics predate industrialization? Not saying this is likely, but maybe we’re seeing something that was always there.