Not only will you die, but so will your entire family and your pets.

This is so you are incentivised to stay alive.

Rules:

  • You cannot refuse this, refusal is also instant death, along with everyone mentioned above.

  • You have absolute authority over the entire world.

  • Every person has a non-removable brain implant that allows them to vote “Approve”, “Disapprove”, or “Abstain from vote”. These are completely immune to hacking.

  • Every above age 18 can vote.

  • You must maintain 50% + 1 vote of “Approve”, exactly 50% Approve / 50% Disapprove still means death for you. “Abstain” is not a vote means it isn’t counted.

  • The effects don’t apply until at least 50% of the population has voted. If you get more 51% disapproval, you’ll still live as long as theres less than 50% of the votes submitted.

  • If someone dies before voting, their vote automatically becomes “Disapprove” (So you don’t get any ideas of committing genocides)

  • Once a vote is submitted, it stays valid even if the person died. A person could also make their implant automatically change vote if they die. So someone could have their vote be set at “Approve” but becomes “Disapprove” upon death.

  • Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Easy. High taxes on the rich and spend that money to give good universal social programs, and also avert climate catastrophe. The tiny fraction of rich people will disapprove but screw them anyways.

    The hard part is getting the political will to do the obvious right thing when politics is controlled by the rich.

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    Step 1. Ask the world for 1 year decision amnesty while I get my bearings.
    Step 2. Bring together the different government run hacking groups and direct them to obtain the root certificates the devices use to communicate back to the tallying servers.
    Step 3. Rewrite all death votes to be approved.
    Step 4. Scrub the internet of this entire thing. Because if it isn’t on the internet then did it really happen?
    Step 5. What world leader? You all vote for your own national governments.
    Step 6. Return to be a nobody because fuck that pressure.

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      Nah, you cant hack this shit because it has plot armor. Call it “magic” “divine intervention” or whatever, you just cannot hack it.

      I mean you can put out propaganda to manipulate people, but you cannot hack the system, its just has unhackable firewall.

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    spend most of the budget on propaganda & surveillance. let everyone see what they want, create fake accounts that will only be shown to certain people that make points about my competition that they disagree with. Also engage in pop culture. Then, create an utopia. If I fail miserably, I have a portible panic button which will launch every singe nuclear bomb and destroy the whole planet.

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    I would promise some pretty decent things. Then, secretly, hire a “shady” group of people (in exchange for loads of money) to design and implement a device that would eradicate the world via nuclear chain reaction, lock the device and give me control so that only I can activate it, give me the ability to set a trigger function so if i did die instantly, it would automatically activate.

    Basically blackmail them into this approval rating BUT follow through with every promise. Which goes:

    Divide the world into certain “geo-categories” where they will be transported and accommodated based on their values and governmental/economic ideals. Of course, this isn’t perfect. There are possibly infinite combinations of “rights” people want today. Most would be modeled after existing countries. You can pick a country and move there. Any countries that have very similar governing styles would be linked in sub-governing bodies but not physically linked.

    Most places would be complete with freedoms, but instead of democracies, they would apply to move to another jurisdiction that supports their views. Not forced but given financial accommodations and means to do so. I would appoint the leaders and from them on they will be voted on for the most part.

    Vote for me: you get pretty much any freedoms, liberties, and rights. Equality and equity. Those who really want to live in a dictatorship sub-government would just move there, but I doubt anyone truly wants that. Other than that, I wouldn’t control much just oversee every country’s actions and maybe intervene in cases of natural disaster and to block proposals of war.

    • because of the elimination of economy types, all current money would be converted into a worldwide currency. No income tax. Everyone who worked would accumulate “points” and spend them. Trade would be free and worldwide, no tax whatsoever needed. No need for gold to back anything up if all countries will now be awarded these points based on the debt they are owed. Prices of common necessities and commodities needed for life would have price caps. No limit on how low a price can be. Monopolies can exist with a requirement to donate substantial amounts to charities and a fund to be given to a jurisdiction’s government to find a business to become new competition which would then eliminate the monopoly. So, the incentive to not monopolize would be that they would have to fund any future competition for a while until things get closer to a balance.

    Healthcare is provided as a percentage of income rather than any fixed rate. This allows medical professionals to still be paid efficiently, but everything is affordable. Everything can be turned into a percent based payment plan and based on household income. All factors of monthly expenses: bills, food, etc will be considered. So, if you are injured, you can’t afford that vacation anymore because that isn’t a necessary expense and some of that will be factored into payment plans.

    Everyone’s credit is converted into a percent of 100. 100 percent being that they always pay on time-- including utility bills. Anyone with bad or negative credit or any hits to their credit will be reset to zero. To build back to 100 would take an average of a year. All debt will be awarded to collectors and debtors as points with no loss to those who owe. They would then be reset to zero credit. New debt would work the same as today but must be paid back as a percentage from now on and cannot be a financial burden or it will be paused. Wages will be garnished based on a percent in this manner. In other words polel will always be able to afford any basic living expenses. Debt does not include mortgages, or loans to be forgiven but converted into a percentage payment plan. If someone accrued many types of percentage based payment plans for debt, such as medical, home, car etc, it will be calculated only after basic expenses are paid. (Housing, utilities, food, transportation to work, school for children)

    Money will be made by working, selling things or awarded in cases of disability or retirement. All retirement ages would be the same–60 yrs old.

    All businesses’ worth will be converted into these global points. (Name of currency to be determined)

    Basically everyone and every entity’s wealth will be the same just in a universal currency. Probably the currency unit that is worth the most every thing would be measured against and converted and then all converted to this universal one.

    Laws will be changed based on common sense of leaders which can be freely elected for one year at a time for all positions and most countries. If you create a dictatorship, the laws have to be fair and cannot restrict travel.

    Rights to bear arms would be upheld on a condition of no criminal history. All would have trackers that are designed to emit a signal and if broken (and no longer emitting) would flag a system and would be confiscated. Any public areas would alert a system if any armed individual enters that area. This is to stop sub-governments from initiating any corrupt control acts. Police would be government funded, require yearly license renewals and an annual mental health and competency test. Free of charge.

    All education would include funding based on a fee that is also a percentage, so you won’t be broke. Language classes for immigrants would be free.

    Since all money would be digital and points based, it could be given infinitely by the government. Trade would be free. A country would export and automatically get points from the other government without the other government losing money. There would be no way to just give money for no reason. It would either be from trade, work, or selling a product or service based on an unhackable machine locked with the security of the global government, me. (A bio key, perhaps)

    This would require a little extra trust between sub-governments to not exploit the system and freely give points( for example based on a trade scam where a country could set a price and the government can just give points for it without losing money) it will be audited monthly by use of an advanced AI algorithm. All trade will be based on demand (and supply obviously).

    If something is rare, there would be a price cap increase for trade.

    So, you are making an observation that money here is less valuable, right? Well, the government can’t give any money without a justification for it being earned. Also there will be import caps based on supply and population, so no one buys out an entire country’s monthly export supply.

    I may have overlooked some flaws but it will evolve.

    Or

    Don’t vote for me: RIP earth.

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        But look at the bright side. All of my promises will be kept. No one has to perish. After all, if I can’t refuse of course I am going to make it so they can’t either.

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    You cannot refuse this…

    Yeah, no, I’m refusing this, dying sounds less compliment, and yeah, I did read the rules.

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    May I point out this entire question is fundamentally broken.

    I have absolute authority over the entire world? I order everyone to vote ‘Approve’ on me. “But wait!” you say, “You can’t just order them to do that! They’ll never listen to you!”

    And that could be absolutely true. But if it is, then my authority is no longer absolute - in which case, no course I take will work, because anyone can elect to not follow it. I can’t compel any group of people - nations, religions, corporations, the local elderly golfer’s association - to do anything. And the second they realize that, they’ll break off to pursue their own agendas.

    At most, I can select one broad coalition who I think will work with me, and try to leverage a smaller group. But now we’re just back to good ol’ factionalism, and that’s not a long-term winning solution.

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    Go the Warhammer 40K emperor route: set up nukes worldwide, triggered by a pacemaker on me. I die, the world dies.

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    How often do these vote cycles occur? I would argue that most distuptive changes will make things worse before they change to the better.

    Ending capitalism, forgiving all debt etc. will lead to huge chaos in the short and medium term. Even thought in the long term, it might turn into a much better system, you’d need a lot of time to rebuild society and people to see the positive in it.

    I think that’s also an issue of today’s democracies. If you’re elected, you have just a relatively short period of time before the next election. If you aim for big reforms, you might be still in the ‘make things worse’ phase after the first legislation period and people will vote for an opposing party. They undo everything you did, again making things worse without ever achieving their own vision.

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      Basically, in this hypothetical, people jusr submit a “approve” or “disapprove” via their brain implant, and it gets instantly gets counted (for “plot magic” reasons okay). Once submitted, it remains that way until the person change it. It can be changed any time.

      Example: In the morning, they see news of you giving out money to everyone, check their bank and voila money, they are happy and they vote “Approve”. In the afternoon, they get news report of you are helping minorities, and oopsie the same person is also a racist and didn’t like that you are helping the minorites which they hate, so they change it to “Disapprove”. People could also set it to automatically change to “Disapprove” upon death in order to disincentivise you ordering their execution. If they never summitted any votes, and they die, its also a “Disapprove”.

      TLDR: There are no “election cycles” you are constantly being judged.

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        Then, I think your best chances of survival would be being as invisible as possible. Only react to urgent issues, don’t address systematic issues and if you’re forced to give a statement, remain vague and unclear. It’s not great for society in the longterm but I think any disruptive change will make people confused, annoyed, insecure or angry. Even though they get used to the change quickly or even like it, instant voting will be your death sentence.

        Another strategy may be to distract people from issues. Sport events, drugs, parties, censorship. Keep up the illusion of everything going well while the world goes down the drain.

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      Literally the whole process the US just endured. (And has been enduring, and will probably continue to endure) (Please help)

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    You must maintain 50% + 1 vote of “Approve”, exactly 50% Approve / 50% Disapprove still means death for you. “Abstain” is not a vote means it isn’t counted.

    All the world’s population is super diverse. Hard to convince them.

    So my strategy is to maximise the Abstain voters, and then it’s only a small group of actual voters that I need to convince for my actual ideas.

    I manipulate people into believing that all this voting is something super special and complex and first you need to understand lots of things about the whole world before you will be able to make correct decisons etc. This is going to work because most of the world’s population is rather uneducated, so they would feel quite inferior and always vote Abstain.

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    Eradicate poverty and cars. Hey guess what drivers, you hate driving, that’s why you rush until it’s over. So I’ll make public transit so fast and reliable that driving will finally be treated as primitive as it actually is.

    Free apartments for all. Luxury apartments cost money. Unwanted, dangerous, and unpleasant jobs are automated with AI.

    All debt is forgiven and you have a clean slate. Everyone now has a credit score of 700. Kickstart your best life.

    Happy population means more locally owned businesses, less crime, less mental illness, less of a declining birth rate.

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      Hey guess what drivers, you hate driving

      I love driving. That’s why I have two cars. A nice, comfortable, efficient, daily driver that makes my commute nice. And a fun car, for when I want fun.

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        Ah yes, the classic “driving is fun, it’s just The People that make it stressful”. How many people did you swear at on the road this month? And how many pedestrians did you beep at or inch towards while they were crossing the street?

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      All debt? Does that include companies too?

      They’ve borrowed at least billions to grow their businesses, and that sort of money won’t just disappear without a trace. In this case, the trace would probably include economic instability of some sort. There’s a reason why central banks use interest rate to influence borrowing and inflation.