citizens must pass a criminal background check and abide by the regulations that will be set forth
Err no thanks, sounds a little like Singapore already!!
This sounds more like Demolition Man, which is probably the nearestany movie has ever predicted the reality of the near future...and we all know how that ended!
Crypto YES, but not the transparent, traceable everyone ..especially the big brother can see what you're doing kind IS definitely the future but if we don't adopt a more opaque system, we will end up being more controlled than we are now.
Nightmare!
Well of course, I'm not saying relinquish all our sovereignty but somewhere we must find a happy medium... That's old steem bro 😂
But seriously it does require a shift in how we humans choose to live. In our current monkeys slinging shit mind frame we will have a dystopian nightmare. If we can live the John Lennon imagine way, what do I have to hide? Your reaction is stemming from a very logical fear based on previous human experience. Sure, it's a naive utopian vision but if we can't evolve we are already fucked. If or when things like clean water become our most cherished resource hiding our gambling winnings or cheating on taxes or whatever it is we feel we must hide from the machine won't even be an issue..
There will be blood it's going to be brutal no avoiding that.
We need to evolve alright, but into a more trusting, trustable, compassionate, empathic and less greedy race then draconian rules and regulation won't be necessary. We need to be creating less law, not more. Its about personal choice within an interdependent community state, not an authoritarian 1984esque dystopia.
And its a logical fallacy to think that people who want more anonymity in their lives are 'hiding' or hiding something. Some people just prefer the choice to what others see of themselves and don't. Why is it any one elses business or requirement to know if I buy Snickers or a Mars bar? The only reason people want this information is for marketing and to build a profile on me and to check the shopkeeper is paying his taxes. That's should be down to personal responsibility. Personal responsibility is the utopian future I want to see. Sadly we are nowhere near evolved yet. All you have to do is look at this shit hole. Give people an inch, they take a mile but is that just people being shit, or being too used to not having? If the latter, then that's the personal responsibility of people 'with' to share more freely.
Just today, I read about facial recognition being secretly used at Kings Cross station, on private land with public access. No one knows why, or what its being used for or checked against. Being going on for years. I pass through there a number of times per year. I am not so naive to not know that mine, and millions of other's biometric data is already being stored and used but I am not happy about because I didn't have a choice. Ask my permission and they would have it, don't give me a choice, I'm against it.
Right, off to 7/11 for a Twix, and paying in cash. Fuck em!
Haha, yes I completely agree and I wasn't implying that ONLY those with something to hide are interested in not being monitored. If there's no consent or choice to be a willing participant we have a problem.. I am not advocating being snooped on but I also realize in many instances the freedom of choice is an illusion. I'm not about to move to experiment city in cambodia but it's also a logical fallacy to assume we as citizens can't use the same tech to create a world we wish to live in... I don't want a snickers or a Reese's I want to buy unprocessed chocolate from the farmer with my borderless anonymous digital coin. It's going to be a long arduous process..
It's possibly a two way street whereby self governance and politics can keep tabs on one another. These types of exchanges aren't conducive via text while I'm keeping up with two wild sugar high kids at the mall lol.
We all want the same things and some trust is going to be tantamount to achieve anything resembling faith in personsal responsibility. The tech is waiting for the people to grow the hell up and realise we are only as strong as our weakest link in the chain..
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and that my friend is the key!