2026-02-22 09:56 UTC
@etsyy@mastodon.catgirl.cloud why?
My (foolish) intention was to enable global universal base income for all humans.
The trick my left brain came up with was to id all humans, and then automatically give them a set amount of money on a certain schedule.
how? 1
The money would be sent to the wallet unlocked by an id, and naturally disappear from the system on the death of the individual. I still think that would create a fairer society in theory, but it hinges on the id mechanism. (2/n)
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@iwein@mas.to 2026-02-22 10:00
@etsyy@mastodon.catgirl.cloud how? 2 To id people consistently (to prevent fraud), you'll need biometrics and/or some kind of central authority. And that's where the id breaks down into dystopia. failure in this design id becomes power, and id-ing people is not free. This means that identifying authorities have power over people, and whenever this happens, superiority and exclusion are more or less natural consequences. I found that this idea was most appealing to fascists, for entirely the wrong reasons… (3/n)